Cybersecurity Risk Analyst

Job Description

THE AGENCY

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is a leading entertainment and sports agency, with global expertise in filmed and live entertainment, digital media, publishing, sponsorship sales and endorsements, media finance, consumer investing, fashion, brand management and consumer product licensing, and philanthropy. Distinguished by its culture of collaboration and exceptional client service, CAA’s diverse workforce identifies, innovates, and amplifies opportunities for the people and organizations that shape culture and inspire the world.

 

The trailblazer of the agency business, CAA was the first to build a sports business, create an investment bank, launch a venture fund, found technology start-up companies, establish a philanthropic arm, build a business in China, form brand marketing services division, and launch a family office advisory practice, among other innovations. Named Most Valuable Sports Agency by Forbes for 10 consecutive years, CAA represents more than 3,000 of the world’s top athletes in football, baseball, basketball, hockey, and soccer, in addition to coaches, on-air broadcasters, and sports personalities and works in the areas of property sales and sponsorships, media advisory, brand consulting, venue development and strategic advisory, and executive search.

Founded in 1975, CAA is headquartered in Los Angeles, and has offices in New York, London, Nashville, Munich, Shanghai, Beijing, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Singapore, Toronto, Denver, Charlotte, Jacksonville, and Atlanta, among other locations globally.  For more information, please visit www.caa.com.  

OVERVIEW

This is a hands-on security position working within the Information Security group and with the internal IT department at large. This position’s core focus is to ensure consistent, measurable end-to-end delivery of security services. The successful candidate will work to develop and deploy capabilities, ensuring enterprise systems and data are protected with the security controls and tools required to meet policy and compliance requirements.

We are looking for candidates who have a passion for cybersecurity, threat detection, risk mitigation, and response. You will be a key part of our efforts to build and support a defensible environment where we are able to detect, contain and respond quickly to threats and compromises in ways that serve to enable the business needs of a highly collaborative organisation. The environment is fast-paced and commonly on the leading edge of technology, including early adoption of various cloud services along with the challenges of integrating those services into our security practice.

Responsibilities to include:

• Support a Technology Vendor Management program, ensuring technology risk reviews across multiple disciplines, and monitoring for renewals and savings opportunities

• ⁠Participate in risk reviews of the IT control framework (NIST CSF, CIS, ITIL, ISO 270001, etc.)

• Conduct thorough vendor, product and application security assessments partnering with systems owners to integrate security early during the project lifecycle

• Partner with business groups to review workflows, producing output to enhance security processes in support of those workflows

• Coordinate, across service owners, the implementation of core security integrations (SSO, Event Logs, Secrets, Alerting, Threat Model and Backup/Recovery) with applications developed in-house and externally/SaaS hosted environments

• Ensure the security considerations identified are implemented and solutions are configured securely

• Coordinate with IRM leadership to develop and deliver key security metrics to ensure technical security controls meet desired objectives; ensuring the measurable effectiveness of CAA’s technical controls

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS

• At least 3+ years' experience in Information Technology

• At least 2 years’ experience in cybersecurity risk management

• A bachelor’s or master’s Degree in a relevant field of work

• Strong analytical skills in conducting due diligence to identify, assess and prioritise vendor risks

• Familiarity with information security frameworks (NIST, ISO27001), data privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA), and information security certifications/attestations (SOC, ISO, PCIDSS, FedRAMP)

• Experience in coordinating technical integrations for security tooling and processes

• Ability to review complex systems architectures to identify key security integration opportunities

• Produce a comprehensive, written, security assessment of vendors security posture

• Experience using security analytics tooling to produce operational metrics and dashboards

• A strong understanding of the fundamental operations of servers, operating systems, cloud applications, and infrastructure

• Core skills in Cybersecurity fundamentals and Third-Party Risk Management

• Familiarity with using Third Party Risk Management tools/processes such as One Trust, SIG or similar GRC platforms

• Hands-on experience in Azure, AWS Cloud environments and familiarity with core Cloud services and Cloud architecture

• Familiarity with core security concepts of Single Sign-on (e.g PingFed, SAML), Identity and Access Administration (Active Directory, Azure AD, AWS IAM), Event Management (Splunk)

• Expert skills in using Microsoft Office suite, JIRA

Please ensure you provide complete and legible information in your application. An incomplete application may affect your consideration for employment.

Creative Artists Agency (“CAA”) is committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and creating a workplace culture in which diversity and inclusion is valued and everyone is treated with dignity and respect. As part of our zero-tolerance approach to discrimination in any form, you and any job applicants will receive equal treatment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, or any other legally recognised protected basis under UK law.

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CAA does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless they were contractually engaged by CAA to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any such employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the acknowledgement and agreement that CAA will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.