Associate Director of Digital Forensics

6 days ago


East Hanover, New Jersey, United States Novartis Group Companies Full time

Job Summary

The Associate Director of Forensics will be a key member of the Novartis Cyber Security Operations Center (CSOC) team, responsible for providing digital forensic services to support the CSOC and other functions within the organization. This role will involve coordination and communication with technical and non-technical teams, including security leadership and business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

  • Digital Forensics and Incident Response
    • Support IT forensic investigations and operations, including data extraction and electronic evidence analysis.
    • Work with Group Legal department on forensic litigation support, providing expert advice and performing acquisition and discovery work.
    • Participate in incident response team efforts, performing evidence collection and root cause analysis of compromised devices.
    • Create forensic images of electronic media and devices, including servers, laptops, mobile phones, and portable storage devices.
    • Stay current with emerging IT forensics trends, technologies, and software.
    • Conduct investigations into security alerts and coordinate root cause analysis of IT Security incidents.
  • Technologies and Automation
    • Interface with engineering teams to design, test, and implement playbooks, orchestration workflows, and automations that support forensic activities.
    • Research and test new technologies and platforms, developing recommendations and improvement plans.
  • Day-to-Day Operations
    • Manage the development of tools, policies, and processes to support the digital forensic program.
    • Develop metrics and KPI reports for management, including gap identification and recommendations for improvement.
    • Recommend or develop new forensic tools and techniques.
    • Provide mentoring and coaching of other CSOC team members.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in Digital Forensics.
  • Experienced IT administration with broad and in-depth technical, analytical, and conceptual skills.
  • Experience in reporting to and communicating with senior-level management on incident response topics.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills, and the ability to communicate information risk-related and incident response concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Excellent understanding and knowledge of general IT infrastructure technology and systems.
  • Proven experience in initiating and managing projects that affect CSOC services and technologies.

Preferred Experience

  • Good mediation and facilitation skills.
  • Good knowledge of IT Security Project Management.
  • Experience with digital forensics related to medical/manufacturing devices.
  • Knowledge of (information) risk management-related standards or frameworks such as COSO, ISO 2700x, CobiT, ISO 24762, BS 25999, NIST, ISF Standard of Good Practice, and ITIL.
  • Host and network-based forensic collection and analysis.
  • Proficient with Encase, Responder, X-Ways, Volatility, FTK, Axiom, Splunk, Wireshark, and other forensic tools.
  • Research, enrichment, and searching of indicators of compromise.
  • Strong team and interpersonal skills, along with the ability to work independently and achieve individual goals.

About Novartis

Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people's lives. We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Benefits and Rewards

You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers and take pride in maintaining a diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.



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