DNAnexus
precision health
Lead,SecurityDetection&ResponseTeam
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“Lead, Security Detection & Response Team at DNAnexus. Skills: Security Detection & Response program leadership, Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, Security Engineering, Cloud Security. Drive the maturity of our Detection & Response program. Leverage internal and partner resources to cohesively identify, address, and stay ahead of threats”
What You'll Achieve.
Identify, address, and stay ahead of the threats faced by companies like DNAnexus.; Close control gaps, process gaps, and training gaps.; Reduce incident reoccurrence rates.; Integrate cybersecurity intelligence into our Detection & Response program.; Influence our security roadmaps.; Raise the maturity level of our cybersecurity operational functions.; Equip embedded responders to quickly and effectively respond to security incidents.; Eliminate manual processes within the Detection & Response function.; Continuously mature and refine our capabilities.
Industry & Context.
Creative problem solving skills
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Prior experience handling cyber security incidents, preferably at multiple companies and working with Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP)., Confident and familiar working investigations (without assistance) in a modern SIEM such as Splunk, Sumologic, or DataDog., Proven track record of successful collaboration with internal and external partner organizations to deliver high-quality outcomes., Worked with and understand SaaS platforms and how to appropriately defend SaaS platforms from cyber attacks., Close familiarity with using public cloud services to provision SaaS/PaaS to external customers, Understanding of modern corporate networks (SD-Wan, service-based remote access, device trust, and endpoint machine identity)., Experience investigating and countering modern adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures in an incident response setting., 5+ years of work experience in security engineering, incident response, threat intelligence, or cloud infrastructure security.
Nice to Have
Familiarity with a coding language such as python, javascript, rust, or go will be beneficial.
What You'll Do.
Drive the maturity of our Detection & Response program
Leverage internal and partner resources to cohesively identify
and stay ahead of threats
Set the vision for the Detection & Response Program
Execution of the Detection & Response Program vision
Execute the daily operations of the CyberSecurity Detection & Response function through leveraging an external Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) and internal IT & Security engineering resources.
Leverage the data collected as part of the Detection & Response program to identify and prioritize control gaps
and training gaps in our Cyber Security posture.
See those gaps closed and incident reoccurrence rates reduced through collaboration with IT
and Product engineering teams.
Monitor cybersecurity threats and integrate the intelligence into our Detection & Response program with internal and external partners.
Leverage the trends identified and intelligence collected about the applicable threat space to influence our security roadmaps.
Raise the maturity level of our cybersecurity operational functions in the response
detection engineering
and offensive security domains.
Run training programs to properly equip embedded responders within business and technical teams to quickly and effectively respond to security incidents.
Aggressively introduce automation to eliminate manual processes within the Detection & Response function.
Mentor incident response team members to continuously mature and refine our capabilities.
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaboration with the Security, Engineering, Technology, and Business teams; Collaboration with IT, Security, and Product engineering teams; Collaboration with internal and external partner organizations; Collaboration across multiple workstreams
Communication Scope
Good communicator; Highly influential both externally as well as internally at the executive level and across the organization.
Full Job Description
Founded in 2009, DNAnexus is the enterprise orchestration platform for precision health. A pioneer in cloud-based omics and purpose-built bioinformatics for life sciences, DNAnexus helps customers contextualize, orchestrate, and federate multiomic and real-world data to derive actionable insights and accelerate the journey from sequence to scientific breakthrough. DNAnexus accomplishes this through its compliance-first, AI-enabled platform, equipped to handle extreme scale and complex data processing for genomics, multiomics, and beyond. For more information, visit [www.dnanexus.com](http://www.dnanexus.com). Our customers depend on the secure and reliable operation of the DNAnexus platform to run their business. From clinical research to large-scale multi-omics computation, our platform is essential to tackle some of the most exciting opportunities in human health. With DNAnexus, organizations can stay a step ahead in leveraging genomics to achieve their goals. DNAnexus brings it all together on a single scalable platform. Key Company Highlights * Founded in 2009 by leading Stanford genomic scientists, headquartered in Mountain View, CA, 280+ employees. * Generating significant revenue, global footprint, ramping rapidly; with Enterprise customers including Regeneron, Natera, FDA, Myriad Genetics, St Jude among others. * FedRAMP Moderate ATO (“Authorized-To-Operate”) platform with current certifications in ISO27001. * Well funded by Tier-1 investors including Blackstone, Google Ventures, Northpond Ventures and TPG Capital, among others. * Massive, evolving multi-omics market opportunity that hasn’t been adequately addressed yet. * Passionate and proven executive leadership team with deep genomics, big data/analytics, and cloud expertise. The role As a key part of the Security and Technology team at DNAnexus, the Lead, Security Detection & Response will drive the maturity of our Detection & Response program, leveraging internal and partner resources to cohesively ide
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