Role - Head - Cyber Defense & Incident Response

Role Contour: Responsible for detection, triage, analysis, response and recovery from suspicious events and security incidents to maintain appropriate intelligence posture for VIL.

Accountability:

- Overseeing monitoring and co-relation of log events across IT infrastructure including security devices, network devices, applications, operating systems etc.
- Designing standard response procedures for security incidents, ensuring post-review of priority 1 and 2 incidents, following defined escalation path when needed, as defined in the escalation policy, etc.
- Performing blue team/red team exercises
- Accountable to keep in pace with external threat intelligence and sharing leads with the architecture team for developing strategy and procuring security solutions to address the gap
- Ensuring response to and recovery from security incidents, performing problem management, root cause analysis, developing after action reports for high-profile, high-impact incidents, sharing timely communication with relevant stakeholders and follow-up through closure of gaps and inconsistencies
- Performing forensic analysis and supporting investigations (includes interfaces with law enforcement)
- Conducting hackathons/ bug bounty programmes to identify potential gaps in information security architecture; working closely with Anticipatory Security Architecture team for closure of those gaps




- Leading and managing threat intel activities to ensure appropriate intelligence posture for future incidents
- Creation & maintenance of relevant SOPs, protocols, policies and other internal documents; ensuring these are reviewed and updated on a timely basis and appropriate information is shared with relevant stakeholders in a timely manner
- Compliance to all applicable regulatory and law enforcements/requirements, managing all the information.
- Managing the interaction with DOT/NCIIPC/CERT-in etc for intel advisory and Incident response related activities.

Experience & Qualifications:

- 20+ years exposure working in IT & Security, with minimum of 8 to 10 years in IT Security Management
- Solid in Governance, Partner Engagement, team handling
- Bachelors degree in Engineering, Cyber Security or related field
- Certifications: CISSP/CCSP/CISA/CISM

Dimensions:

- % adherence to SLA for resolving incidents based on incident categorization 99%
- Number of cyber drills participated in and the ability to identify all test cases – Twice in Year

Technical Competencies:

- Understanding of Network and System administration
- Building logic and algorithms
- Understating of SIEM & other security tools like AV, DLP, EDR, Proxy etc.
- Understanding security systems & appliance like. NIPS, DODOS, Firewall

📌 VP-Head Cyber Defense & Incident Response (Mumbai)
🏢 Vodafone Idea
📍 Mumbai