ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
Conducts annual security controls effectiveness testing. Documents findings and advises and monitors remediation efforts on all systems in accordance with established policy and procedures.
Conducts significant research, evaluation, recommendation, and documentation development such as security assessment reports, methodologies, briefings, and presentations.
Conducts information security audits/risk assessments on customer systems and network and documents in accordance with NIST, Risk Management Guide for Information Technology Systems.
Annually reviews and updates the security and contingency plan for each system in conjunction with security audits and makes recommendations to address deficiencies.
Assists system owners in developing security authorization packages that are fully compliant with National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidelines and organizational defined standards.
Evaluates the implementation of security controls as required by NIST. Prepares security authorization packages using approved customer templates.
Assists in meeting mandates, directives, reporting, and other security-related processes with respect to Federal regulations such as FISMA; Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA); Office of Management and Budget (OMB) mandates; Homeland Security Presidential Directives (HSPD); Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) and NIST guidance implementation, oversight, and compliance.
Reviews and updates risk assessments when significant changes occur to systems/network.
Ensures customer information and information systems are adequately protected from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction. Briefs and provides documented results to staff. Briefs include, at a minimum, areas of conformance to directives, corrective recommendations for deficiencies, and POA&M explanations to correct deficiencies.
Analyzes major IT systems, from a security perspective, during the initial phases of system development and throughout the systems development lifecycle.
Reviews standard security configurations to assure compliance with federal directives and industry best practices.