Hawaiian Electric is a leading provider of electricity and services in Hawaii, committed to integrity, excellence, and community support. They are seeking an Information Assurance Analyst to perform risk assessments, develop security solutions, and ensure compliance with information security standards.
Performs assessments of systems and networks within the network environment or enclave and identifies where those systems/networks deviate from acceptable configurations, policies, or guidance. Measures effectiveness of defense-in-depth architecture against known vulnerabilities
Assists with risk assessments, and development of security architecture solutions and technologies
Supports development of detailed proposals and plans for new information security systems and controls to enhance or enable new capabilities for network or hosted applications
Conducts ongoing compliance reviews; assists in developing practices to ensure adequate information security and IT controls
Performs information security risk assessments and recommends mitigating controls and solutions for IT and Operations Technology (OT) projects and applications, including proposals for externally hosted applications and new utility technology projects
Assists with the system assessments for conformance with configuration control, policy, and guidance
Assists with program development and management for privacy, e-discovery, security awareness training, digital forensics, vulnerability remediation, and other security and compliance programs
Performs miscellaneous administrative roles such as schedule development, information tracking, updating deliverables and other work assigned
Supports the Company’s business continuity planning, IT disaster recovery planning, cybersecurity incident response planning and team (CS-IMT), with occasional on-call support
Participates in Company emergency response activities as assigned, including any activities required to prepare for such emergency response
Qualification
Required
1-3 years of experience in Systems administration, basic cyber analysis/operations, cyber threats, risk management, network management, IT system design, cloud deployment or wireless networking
Associates Degree or equivalent work experience in Computer science, cybersecurity, information technology, software engineering, information systems, computer engineering
Obtain within the first six months of employment one or more of the following Certifications A+ CE, CCNA-Security, CND, Network+ CE, SSCP, CCNA Security, CySA+ (CSA+), GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP (Other certification will be considered)
4-7 years of experience in information assurance, incident handling, risk management, vulnerability management and analysis, and assistance programs
Bachelor's degree (or higher) in computer science, cybersecurity, information technology, software engineering, information systems, computer engineering
One or more of the following Certifications A+ CE, CCNA-Security, CND, Network+ CE, SSCP, CCNA Security, CySA+ (CSA+), GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP (Other certification will be considered)
Computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies
Risk management processes (e.g., methods for assessing and mitigating risk)
Cybersecurity and privacy principles and organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation)
Laws, regulations, policies, and ethics as they relate to cybersecurity and privacy
Cyber threats and vulnerabilities
Cryptography and cryptographic key management concepts
Data backup and recovery concepts
Host/network access control mechanisms (e.g., access control list, capabilities list)
Network access, identity, and access management (e.g., public key infrastructure, Oauth, OpenID, SAML, SPML)
Traffic flows across the network (e.g., Transmission Control Protocol [TCP] and Internet Protocol [IP], Open System Interconnection Model [OSI], Information Technology Infrastructure Library, current version [ITIL])
Programming language structures and logic
System and application security threats and vulnerabilities (e.g., buffer overflow, mobile code, cross-site scripting, Procedural Language/Structured Query Language [PL/SQL] and injections, race conditions, covert channel, replay, return-oriented attacks, malicious code)
Network attacks and a network attack's relationship to both threats and vulnerabilities
System administration, network, and operating system hardening techniques
Different classes of attacks (e.g., passive, active, insider, close-in, distribution attacks)
Different cyber attackers (e.g., script kiddies, insider threat, non-nation state sponsored, and nation sponsored)
Different cyber-attack stages (e.g., reconnaissance, scanning, enumeration, gaining access, escalation of privileges, maintaining access, network exploitation, covering tracks, etc.)
Network security architecture concepts including topology, protocols, components, and principles (e.g., application of defense-in-depth)
Specific operational impacts of cybersecurity lapses
