Cyber and Information Security Lead

Cyber and Information Security Lead

Bath

£75,000 - £85,000

Our client is looking for an ambitious Cyber and Information Security Lead to join their growing SaaS Business. They are seeking a conscientious, personable, and knowledgeable leader, ideally with commercial experience in the public sector. You may already be operating at the CISO level in a small company or have ambitions to reach the next level in your career.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategy and Compliance: Design and implement a comprehensive security strategy and roadmap, ensuring our security posture meets the requirements of the NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT), Cyber Essentials Plus, ISO 27001:2022, and other relevant frameworks.

• Risk Management: Lead the information security risk management program, including the identification, assessment, mitigation, and monitoring of risks across all systems and operations.

• Policy and Governance: Support and oversee the creation and enforcement of security policies, standards, and procedures.

• Incident Response: Develop, implement, and manage the security incident response plan.

• Leadership: Provide strong leadership and mentorship to the governance, risk, and compliance team.
  

Essential Requirements:

• Extensive security leadership: Proven experience (10+ years) in a senior information security role, with significant experience in a CISO or equivalent position within a software development or health technology environment

• UK health sector experience: In-depth knowledge and practical experience with UK healthcare security standards and regulations, including demonstrable expertise with the NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT), Digital Technology Assessment Criteria (DTAC) and NCSC CAF.

• ISO 27001:2022 implementation & maintenance: Hands-on experience with the successful implementation, certification, and ongoing maintenance of an ISO 27001 Information Security Management System (ISMS), ideally to the 2022 standard.

• Security architecture & Secure by Design: Strong understanding and experience of secure software development lifecycles (SDLC) and embedding security by design into product development processes, along with secure system architecture principles.

• Risk management: Demonstrated expertise in developing, implementing, and managing information security risk management frameworks, including risk assessment methodologies (eg OCTAVE, FAIR).

• Incident response: Proven track record in developing, leading, and managing security incident response plans, including experience with major incident handling and communication with regulatory bodies (eg NCSC, ICO, NHS England).

• Policy & governance: Extensive experience in developing, implementing, and enforcing comprehensive information security policies, standards, and procedures.

• Regulatory compliance: Solid understanding of UK and EU data protection laws (eg GDPR, Data Protection Act 2018), NIS Directive, and their practical application within a health tech context.

• Stakeholder management: Excellent communication, influencing, and negotiation skills with the ability to articulate complex security concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership, product teams, and external partners.

• Team leadership & mentoring: Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) team.

• Vulnerability management: Experience scoping, overseeing and interpreting the results of vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, and security audits.

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