Cyber Risk Advisor I
- Sophos
- 5 - 10 years
- Ahmedabad
- 3 months ago
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Job Description
Role Summary
The Cyber Risk Advisor I serves as a trusted cybersecurity consultant to customers, helping them understand and mitigate cyber risks. This role involves leading advisory sessions, interpreting vulnerability data, and providing prioritized remediation guidance. The advisor monitors customer environments for threats and ensures measurable reductions in attack surfaces. Strong communication skills are essential for translating technical findings to both executive and technical audiences.
What you will do
- Serve as the cyber risk trusted advisor for your customers. You will simplify complex vulnerabilities, explain real-world attack scenarios, and guide customers toward the right cyber risk mitigation decisions
- Lead Cyber Risk Advisory Sessions with customers where you will contextualize and prioritize vulnerability and exposure results, cyber risk trends, and overall security posture with the goal of facilitating positive security outcomes for your customers
- Provide prioritized, context-driven cyber risk remediation recommendations, helping customers focus on the vulnerabilities most likely to be weaponized by the threat actors
- Assist in monitoring customer environments for critical vulnerabilities, exposures, and emerging threats, escalating and advising on timely remediation
- Ensure that our Managed Risk service translates into measurable reductions in your customers overall attack surface
- Build professional, trust-based relationships with customers
- Continuously develop your skills through mentorship and hands-on experience
What you will bring
- 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity or related IT fields, 3+ yrs in Cyber risk role
- Strong knowledge of enterprise networking concepts (routing, switching, VLANs, firewalls, VPNs, and remote access technologies)
- Strong knowledge of vulnerability management, attack surface management (reduction), and common security frameworks (NIST, CIS, ISO, etc.)
- Hands-on experience with EASM/IASM tools, vulnerability scanning platforms, and remediation workflows
- Excellent communication and advisory skills, with the ability to simplify technical findings for executives while going deep with technical teams
- Proven ability to prioritize and manage multiple customer relationships, balancing consultative guidance with timely escalation of critical risks
- A proactive, problem-solving mindset and the drive to help customers reduce their overall cyber risk
- Good to have
- Industry certifications such as CompTIA Network+ or equivalent networking credentials, alongside security certifications such as CISSP, CISM, OSCP, CEH, or Security+
- Hands-on experience working with Tenable Nessusand/or the Tenable One platform
- Background in Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, or Red/Blue Team operations
- Knowledge of cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP) and securing hybrid and cloud environments
- Prior experience in a customer-facing consultancy or advisory role with the ability to bridge networking and security conversations
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: IT & Information SecurityRole Category: IT & Information Security - OtherRole: IT & Information Security - OtherEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: SophosLocation(s): Ahmedabad+ View Contact
Keyskills: Cism remediation ISO HP data protector GCP SIEM Vulnerability Vulnerability management Monitoring Recruitment
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