Director (Cyber Exposure Management

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Make an Impact by:

Strategic leadership:

• Define and execute enterprise Cyber Exposure Management strategy and roadmap.
• Establish a risk-based exposure management framework aligned with business objectives.
• Lead cyber-attack surface reduction initiatives across organization.
• Drive continuous improvement in cyber posture visibility and exposure reduction capabilities.
• Develop executive-level cyber risk reporting and metrics.

Leadership & Team Management:

• Build, lead and mentor high-performing team.
• Manage budgeting, capability development and vendor relationships.
• Establish operational Key Performance Indicators and performance metrics.
• Foster collaboration across system owners, business, Regulatory, Data Governance, Risk Management, and broader Cybersecurity team.

Executive Reporting & Stakeholder Engagement:

• Present cyber exposure trends and risk posture to executive leadership and governance committees.
• Translate technical cyber risks into business impact language.
• Support board-level cybersecurity reporting.
• Drive measurable compliance improvement across enterprise.
• Influence enterprise prioritization of remediation investments.

Technology & Platform Oversight:

• Service ownership and continuous optimization of
  • Vulnerability Management platform.
  • Exposure Management including residual risk management platform.
  • Attack Surface Management platform.
  • Cloud Security Posture Management platform.
  • Vulnerability Disclosure and Bug Bounty platform.
• Drive automation and orchestration for end-to-end cyber exposure management workflows including but not limited to:
  • Integration with IT Service Management Incident Management.
  • Integration with IT Service Management Configuration Management Database.
  • Integration with Security Incident & Event Management.
  • Integration with Security Orchestration, Automation and Response.
  • Integration with Threat Intelligence platform.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and exposure management innovations.

Cyber Exposure Management Service Portfolio:

• Establish governance processes for remediation prioritization and Service Level Agreement management.
• Define policies, standards, and operational procedures for exposure management.
• Ensure solutions and operating models are aligned with industry best practices and recommendation whilst meeting organization and regulatory requirements.
• Define, document, communicate and ensure service’s Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) are met.
• Partner with Business Units’ IT asset management and quality assurance team on the completeness of asset visibility and criticality classification.  Establish governance, standard operating procedures & escalation procedures to bridge gaps related to asset visibility, classification and ownership.
• Support system hardening and compliance verification.
• Incorporate threat intelligence and mitigating controls into exposure prioritization processes.
• Drive risk-based remediation strategies focusing on:
  • Exploitability
  • Threat actor profile and activity
  • Business impact
  • Operational criticality
• Collaborate with Cyber Defence Operations and Incident Response teams on emerging threats and active exploitation.
• Support regulators’ queries on exposure metrics:
  • Presenting independent and validated up-to-date exposure metrics including residual risks to impacted system owners. 
  • Impacted system owners shall provide associated milestones and timeline responses back to Singtel regulatory team

Skills for Success:

• Degree in Cyber Security, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or other relevant field of study.
• Professional security management certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security professional (CISSP), specialised SANS certifications, or other similar credentials, is required.
• Minimum 10 years of practical experience in Cyber Security organisation or equivalent environment with strong experience in Cyber Exposure Management.
• Minimum 5 years of practical experience on Cyber Exposure Management.
• Experience in the following:
  • Vulnerability Management.
  • Exposure Management including residual risk.
  • Attack Surface Management.
  • Vulnerability Disclosure & Bug Bounty programme.
• Ability to build, lead and mentor high performance team.
• Orchestrate across cross-functional teams, make sound decisions under pressure, and manage expectations.
• Strong leadership, decision-making, communication, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Good understanding of cyber security analysis models such as MITRE ATT&CK framework, Cyber Kill Chain and Diamond Model.
• Good understanding of established cyber exposure management frameworks and best practices.

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