IT Specialist

4 weeks ago


Washington, Washington, D.C., United States Department Of Homeland Security Full time
Summary

The IT Specialist (Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM) is located within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A), Technology and Data Services Directorate (TDS), Cybersecurity Division (CSD), Risk Management Branch (RMB).



Duties

The IT Specialist for ISCM reports to the IT Specialist ISCM Team Lead within RMB and serves an advisor to the Information System Owner (SO), the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)/Information System Security Manager (ISSM) and the Information System Security Officer (ISSO) on all matters, technical and otherwise, involving the Risk Management Framework (RMF) ISCM security of an information system.

Duties Include:

  • Provides guidance on the development and implementation of an ISCM program.
  • Supports threat/vulnerability awareness for the DHS Intelligence Enterprise (IE).
  • Provides visibility into organizational assets.
  • Knowledgeable of (Governance, Requirements, Compliance (GRC) tools as well as Continuous monitoring tools, i.e., RSA Archer.
  • Provides effective, measurable security control and vulnerability review.
  • When executing the ISCM Program, use IC, DHS, NIST, CNSSI FISMA, and other government standards, policies and regulations (e.g., ICD-503, NIST , NIST 800-53, NIST and NIST
  • Assist in validating ConMon Strategy and developing a ISCM Strategy Gap Analysis Report.
  • Identify ISCM program gaps and recommends solutions to address gaps.
  • Review risk tolerance within the enterprise architecture, security architecture, security configurations, planned changes to the enterprise architecture, and available threat information.
  • Assist in the development and tracking of ISCM metrics such as the number and severity of vulnerabilities discovered and remediated, number of unauthorized access attempts, configuration baseline information, and contingency plan testing dates and results.
  • Assist with validating the ISCM information collection and reporting process.
  • Support ISCM Technology Integration Report development.
  • Validate solutions and determine improvements to lower costs, enhance efficiency, improve the reliability of monitoring security-related information and generate a ISCM Technology Gap Report.
  • Develop weekly and monthly ISCM Reports and capture metrics as security control assessments are conducted.
  • Detail findings, provide status, recommended mitigations, metrics, and evidence.
  • Provides guidance on the development and implementation of an ISCM program that supports threat/vulnerability awareness.
  • Provides visibility into organizational assets.
  • Knowledgeable of other ISCM monitoring tools and display tools such as Tableau.
  • Provides effective, measurable security control review.
  • Assists with the development and population of a Risk Heatmap. Heatmaps will be one method used to depict the security posture of the intelligence enterprise.
  • In support of developing a Heatmap and other reports, input data directly into a RIVET (Risk equation) Assessment module for each system within the DHS IE.

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