Data Protection Analyst

Proofpoint; Reading; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000

Job description

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We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

Corporate Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity. Protection Starts with People. Proofpoint.

The Role

The Data Protection Analyst (DPA) will be responsible for the monitoring of all Data Loss Prevention events for Proofpoint's Managed Services clients, escalating all necessary events to the clients via approved escalation paths. DPAs will also perform health checks and pull monthly metrics from the DLP consoles supporting Program Analysts (PAs) and Program Strategy Managers (PSMs) with monthly reporting. Ensure all tasks performed adhere to the firm’s ISO 27001 Information Security Management System (ISMS). This includes participation in annual information and network security training and acceptance of spot checks on an ad hoc basis to guarantee that Proofpoint is constantly improving upon the organization’s ISMS.

Responsibilities

1. Monitor all Data Loss Prevention events for Proofpoint’s Managed Services clients.
2. Escalate necessary events to the clients via approved escalation paths.
3. Perform health checks for all the Data Loss Prevention environments.
4. Follow all associated Work Instructions and Standard Operating Procedures to perform health checks.
5. Provide policy recommendations to the consultants based on trends observed during daily monitoring.
6. Pull metrics from the Data Loss Prevention consoles to assist the PAs and PSMs with presentations/reporting.
7. Maintain customer policies in DLP environments, ensuring use cases adhere to customer requirements.

What You Bring to the Team

1. Experience in information security, digital forensics, intelligence, risk management, or a similar field.
2. Bachelor’s Degree in Information Security, Information Technology, Criminal Justice (or other applicable degree, and/or commensurate, applicable experience).
3. Ability to analyze data sets and uncover unique attributes and trends.
4. Demonstrated organizational and scheduling skills.
5. Rigorous attention to detail.
6. Passion to find innovative and creative solutions to complex problems.
7. Ability to work effectively with team members and clients.
8. Self-motivated, with the ability to manage and follow up on multiple tasks simultaneously.
9. Consultative skills and strong judgment.
10. Ability to communicate complex ideas and solutions to a variety of audiences.
11. Strong time management skills.

Nice to Have

1. Experience working with DLP, CASB, SIEM, email and/or web gateway.
2. Analyzing data and deriving business intelligence.
3. Performing computer or cyber forensics and investigations.
4. Degree in Information Security, Criminal Justice, Intelligence, or other applicable degree.
5. Network+, Security+, SSCP, ITIL, ISO 20/27k, CFE, and related certifications.

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re a customer-focused and driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint!

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!