Head of Cyber Security Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

As a Head of Cyber Security, you’ll: Provide strong leadership to your internal team and external service providers underpinned by policies, processes, and technologies that you will champion. Develop and communicate a strategy for cyber security aligned with the Department’s goals and risk appetite, subsequently using this to implement a cyber security roadmap that moves the Department forward in its maturity of modern technologies, industry best practices, and zero trust. Be responsible for the management and implementation of cyber security risk management, regularly assuring and security testing all systems to agreed KPIs/SLAs. Provide cyber security advice and guidance to the Department and other bodies it is responsible for, working collaboratively with key internal and wider government partners to understand the wider cyber security environment. Lead and manage the proactive cyber security monitoring and alerting for our systems and services, including pro-active exercising of our response to security incidents. Lead, develop, and advise on approaches to improve the risk posture and reduce the attack surface of our systems and services, ensuring the Department understands and identifies remediations to both detected and published vulnerabilities that may affect systems and services. Ensure vulnerability management is well implemented in the centre and stakeholders operate their services in line with policies to reduce and remediate issues, liaising with service managers to ensure our external service providers patch and sufficiently protect our systems and services in a timely and efficient manner. Provide appropriate reporting to the Department, including a consolidated view of the Department’s and its Arms Length Bodies threat surface and risk posture. Be responsible for MHCLG GovAssure and accountable for Arm’s Length Bodies GovAssure. Lead and monitor the production of cyber security related technical documentation for all relevant services and systems in the Department.

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