Enterprise Cybersecurity Incident Manager

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**Who we are supporting**

The NATO Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) is responsible for providing secure and effective communications and information technology (IT) services to NATO's member countries and its partners. The agency was established in 2012 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

The NCIA provides a wide range of services, including:

- Cyber Security: The NCIA provides advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect NATO's communication networks and information systems against cyber threats.
- Command and Control Systems: The NCIA develops and maintains the systems used by NATO's military commanders to plan and execute operations.
- Satellite Communications: The NCIA provides satellite communications services to enable secure and reliable communications between NATO forces.
- Electronic Warfare: The NCIA provides electronic warfare services to support NATO's mission to detect, deny, and defeat threats to its communication networks.

Overall, the NCIA plays a critical role in ensuring the security and effectiveness of NATO's communication and information technology capabilities.

**The program**

**Assistance and Advisory Service (AAS)**

The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) is NATO's principal C3 capability deliverer and CIS service provider. It provides, maintains and defends the NATO enterprise-wide information technology infrastructure to enable Allies to consult together under Article IV, and, when required, stand together in the face of attack under Article V.

To provide these critical services, in the modern evolving dynamic environment the NCI Agency needs to build and maintain high performance-engaged workforce. The NCI Agency workforce strategically consists of three major categorise's: NATO International Civilians (NIC)'s, Military (Mil), and Interim Workforce Consultants (IWC)'s. The IWCs are a critical part of the overall NCI Agency workforce and make up approximately 15 percent of the total workforce.

**Role Background**

They will work on the coordination of response to cybersecurity incidents involving Enterprise CIS and services, performed by the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO). They will execute the follow-on activities through engagement with several NATO stakeholders, such as the NATO technical authorities, risk management authorities, and other relevant NATO entities across the Enterprise, including NATO risk managers, CIS Providers (CISPs), the NATO Cyber Threat Assessment Branch (CTAB) and the NATO Cyberspace Operations Centre (CyOC). They will also be responsible for further development, maintenance and update of the Enterprise Cyber Incident Management framework and supporting processes.

**Role Duties and Responsibilities**
- Support Enterprise cyber incident management and response efforts, in particular ensuring appropriate coordination across Enterprise stakeholders;
- Support, oversight and lead Cyber Incident Task Force (CITF) lines of effort;
- Support the preparation and conduct of cyber Incident Coordination and Decision Making Group (ICDMG) discussions and meetings;
- Prepare weekly SITREPs for OCIO leadership awareness on relevant activities, also for informing the Allies as necessary;
- Perform and supervise secretarial duties for cyber incident response related meetings;
- Identify, develop and coordinate mitigation and remediation actions, in order to ensure a coherent response, Enterprise-wide, to identified cyber events and incidents;
- Develop, maintain and update an Enterprise-wide incident management framework to support the role of the CIO as Single Point of Authority for cybersecurity, in coordination with relevant NATO stakeholders, such as NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) and CyOC;
- Support the annual update of the Cyber Incident Response Plan (CIRP) and its supporting annexes;
- Support the preparation, conduct and evaluation of the annual OCIO-led Exercise Enterprise Pathfinder (ENPAF), a key exercise for the Enterprise to ensure readiness to handle cyber security incidents;
- Support that the lessons identified of previous ENPAF iterations and CITFs become learned in the Enterprise cyber incident management process;
- Liaise with NCIA for monitoring and coordination of technical activities in relation to cybersecurity incidents;
- Liaise with the NATO Cyber Threat Assessment Branch for monitoring and assessment of cyber threats.

**Essential Skills and Experience**
- At least 3 years of experience in cybersecurity incident management, preferably in a large organization;
- Experience in the planning of multi-year programs related to cyber security incident management;
- Experience in cyber incident management exercise planning processes and scenarios;
- Experience in the development of processes and