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Join Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Australia's leading independent law firm.

The role is to support the National Security and Risk Manager in overseeing and managing the daily operations of the security activities within the organisation. Covering vulnerability management, threat management, incident response management, disaster recovery and business continuity initiatives.

The position requires the execution of security procedures covering Corrs’ information systems, and the ongoing management of processes to ensure compliance and to continue to increase our security capabilities. This includes meeting our security KPIs and ongoing reporting to multiple internal stakeholders and an Audit Risk Committee.

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Key responsibilities

• Oversee daily operations such as monitoring, IR management, vulnerability management, threat analysis, and investigations. Ensure smooth and effective operations while following policies and regulations.
• Manage changes associated with systems, networks and cloud services to ensure security controls are not compromised.
• Monitor threat intelligence and other security advisory services and prepare recommendations for Technology management on potential exposure and courses of action.
• Engage external parties to conduct multiple types of penetration testing of Corrs’ Systems, Networks and Cloud Services.
• Responsible for preparing the team to detect, investigate, and respond to security incidents. They coordinate incident response plans, provide guidance, and minimise the impact of security breaches.
• Maintain Corrs’ disaster recovery and incident response plans.
• Ensure testing of DR/IR plans is carried out on a regular basis to assess readiness.
• Managing our “SOC” and all related tools, solutions and processes.
• Maintaining threat mapping, playbooks and building threat intelligence sources.
• Perform detailed investigations including threat hunting and intrusion analysis and ensure SLA performance is met and delivered.
• Security Incident Management including improvements such as automation to gain efficiencies, reduce errors, and increase the capacity of an enterprise incident response program.
• Operate and manage our third-party Security service providers to enhance the firm’s “SOC” 24/7 capabilities.

Required qualifications and preferred experience

• A tertiary qualification in IT or business related discipline. 
• An understanding of contemporary security and Incident Response issues in a medium to large corporate environment.
• An understanding of relevant security standards such ISO27001, ACSC 8 and  aspect of the privacy act.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

About us:
Corrs Chambers Westgarth is Australia’s leading independent law firm. We provide exceptional legal services across the full spectrum of matters, including major transactions, projects and significant disputes, offering strategic advice on our clients’ most challenging issues.

Why Corrs?
We pride ourselves on meeting our clients needs in a culture characterised by excellence, commitment, collaboration and respect. Our policies, practices and behaviours foster a safe and inclusive workplace, and we focus on creating opportunities and supporting a diverse workforce.

• Flexible working as standard – we’ve established flexibility as standard business practice and an option for all our people.
• Bonus leave – an additional week of leave each year (5 weeks annual leave in total).
• Generous parental leave entitlements – we offer up to 26 weeks paid leave and pay superannuation on both paid and unpaid leave (up to 12 months).
• Wellbeing program – we support the wellbeing of our people across areas including resilience, mental health, mindfulness, personal development, physical health and self-care.
• Diversity and Inclusion – this is a key area of focus for the firm. We set meaningful goals to improve diversity and foster an inclusive culture in which all employees feel supported and valued.
• Responsible business approach – we are a member of the United Nations Global Compact, and are committed to promoting and respecting human rights, supporting the Compact’s Ten Principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. We are also a member of AusLSA, which works to promote and increase sustainable practices across the legal sector.
• Learning and development opportunities – including our Australian-first international study scholarship, our national training program and our mentoring program.

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