Cyber Security Consultant
CurrentBank First, formerly known as Victoria Teachers Mutual Bank, is an Australian financial institution based in the state of Victoria, Australia. As a mutual bank, Bank First is owned by its customers and not external shareholders. Each of its over 110,000 customers owns an equal share of the organization. Like other Australian financial behemoths, Bank First is regulated by APRA and complies with CPS 230 and CPS 234 prudential standards. As part of the Cybersecurity function, my role takes care of some of the below activities:o Drive Information Security - Compliance related initiatives in a regulated environment.o End-to-end implementation of CPS 234 related controls as per APRA guidelines. Initiatives related to executing control testing activities against the risks identified within business.o Risk assessments of vendors and suppliers.o Setting up Security Incident Management processes for investigation from Cybersecurity standpoint. Vulnerability assessments, attack surface mitigation and patch management analysis.o Post incident analysis, internal stakeholder management for continuous improvement. o Review of Risk Appetite and Risk Capacity of the organization through Board’s approval. o Senior Management reporting related to KPI and KRIs of Cyber function. o Security reviews of vendor contacts for third party risk assessments and fourth party risk analysis. o Internal audits as per ISMS standards considering both ISO27001 and ISO27701 standards. o Information security reviews as per NIST framework. o Effective reviews of RFPs and RFIs responses for the CISO function.