Security Consultant

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Education

• Bachelors degree required; preferred in Cyber Security, Information Assurance, Computer Information Systems (CIS), Information Security and Business
• Masters degree preferred in Information Assurance, Information Security or related discipline

Certifications Preferred

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

Work Experience

• 1-3 years of consulting experience for security consulting firms
• 7 to 12 years in enterprise firewalls and secure design (DMZ s, ACL s, NAT/PAT, ssl-offloading & traffic inspection)

Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Working knowledge and consulting experience in the majority of the following areas:
• Zero Trust Architectures
• Network Segmentation
• Network Security
• OT Networks
• Ability to perform concurrent tasks in complex environments under adjusting priorities
• Ability to communicate and modify approach, language, and style to different audiences
• Professional writing style and experience with demonstrable technical and business-related artifacts is required
• Networking (Security). Industry-level expertise in any of the following networking (security) aspects
• Network security platforms, including segmentation, ACLs, DPI, DDoS protection. Examples include: Software: iptables, ipsec, VPN, IDS, firewall management platforms, ACL compilers and tooling. Hardware: switch ACLs, stateful firewalls, network segmentation, security zones
• OSI model and debugging network traffic
• Networking protocols (TCP/UDP, BGP, DNS, DHCP)
• Familiarity in firewall solutions in Zero-Trust, Network Admission Control, Micro-segmentation, Macro-segmentation, virtual networks, or Identity Defined Networks (IDN).