Leader, Security Engineering Attack Surface Management Hybrid

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Hybrid role requiring onsite presence in one of the following Cisco locations: San Jose, California; Maryland (including DC Metro/Beltway Area); North Carolina (Research Triangle Park, Raleigh); Tennessee (Knoxville); Texas (Austin); and Virginia (Herndon). Specific days onsite in the office are expected.

The successful applicant may be performing work on FedRamp environments and partnering with researchers and threat intel teams that require they be a U.S. Person (i.e. U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee). This position may also perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. Citizen on U.S. soil.

Meet the Team

The Cisco Attack Surface Management (ASM) Team is a highly skilled and dynamic group focused on detecting and remediating Cisco's operational security risks inclusive of IT services, acquisitions, and BU operated infrastructure and services, focused on identifying and reducing risks across Cisco's global network.

The ASM service unifies tooling sources of truth, mis-configurations, and vulnerability data collected to enable executive accountability and supervise the prioritized remediation of all exploitable weaknesses within target operational level agreements. The team is at the forefront of cybersecurity! Employing cutting-edge technologies and methodologies to detect, analyze, and proactively address attack surface threats.

Your Impact

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Security Leader to drive security campaigns and response across the entire organization supporting continuous improvement and reduction of our attack surface. This role will contribute to the proactive, sustainable, and measurable reduction of operational risk at Cisco, addressing foundational improvements and security root cause resolution.

Multi-functional Collaboration: Work closely with experts across various domains, includinginvestigations, analysis, vulnerability management, security architecture, threat intelligence, cyber legal, data protection, and compliance, providing opportunities to learn and grow while addressing sophisticated challenges.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement a strategic plan for security campaigns, response, and client engagement, aligning with the Attack Surface Management outcomes.
• Lead a team of security experts in delivering sustainable risk reduction across the enterprise.
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams to integrate attack surface management within their business.
• Lead multiple client engagements using a campaign-based, risk remediation approach as part of a bi-directional partnership with active Business Unit/Business Entity contacts to serve last mile capabilities at scale
• Design and implement security campaigns advised by vulnerability discovery, mis-configurations, and attack surface analysis using automated and manual techniques.
• Identify gaps in tooling that impact visibility and attribution of operational assets and assist the clients and ASM Platform team in the discovery of unknowns and enabling new data feeds.
• Know the latest emerging threats, attack techniques, and ASM technologies to continuously enhance the ASM program.
• Foster long-term relationships with key client partners, understanding their critical business needs, and helping them to proactively identify and address operational security risk.

Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability in a combination of risk management, information security, and exposure management or vulnerability management
• Knowledge of common information security management frameworks, such as NIST CSF
• 12+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with a focus on attack surface management or related areas
• Solid knowledge in one or more security domains, including: Asset Security, Architecture & Engineering, Network Security, Operations, and Software Development Security

Preferred Qualifications

• Superb communication skills that enable clear explanation of sophisticated security and risk related topics to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Must be a critical thinker with strong problem-solving skills
• Proven leadership experience with the ability to build and develop high performing security operations teams
• Proficiency with a broad range of cybersecurity tools and systems, including security asset inventories, exposure management tools, offensive security services, and third-party risk management services
• Experience building and/or operating an attack surface management service, at scale

S&TO

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

• 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

• Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto the next

• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and

• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.