At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

Your role in the team
We have an opportunity for someone having experience in performing Security Risk Assessments to join the Information Security department as a Cyber Risk Security Assessor in the Allstate Technology & Strategic Ventures (ATSV). The Cyber Risk Assessor will be responsible for supporting the company's efforts to identify, assess and evaluate security risks through business-as-usual cyclical assessments and ad hoc consultations. This individual will be a key contributor managing operational activities to reduce risks to business goals in close consultation with other Information Security, ATSV and business partners. The analyst needs to understand information security best practices, risk assessment methodologies, and working across multi-functional teams.

• Conducts risk assessment at the network, systems, platforms and application level.
• Involved in addressing and providing guidance on wide range of security issues including architectures, platforms including Public Cloud, electronic data traffic, and network access.
• Driving the company's efforts to proactively identify, assess, and communicate the company's information security risks to leadership and board.
• Ensure compliance with security policies and standards.
• Deep understanding of Cyber programs such as Threat Management, Secure SDLC, Security Architecture, Network and Data Protection.
• Work in close partnership with internal information security and business representatives to scope assessments, gather documentation, interview clients, identify risks, document findings, and ensure transparent management of risks by following a structured risk assessment methodology
• Works independently to lead and complete high quality threat-based risk assessments across a diverse set of technologies, business functions, and platforms.
• This position will also proactively drive process improvements, overcome barriers to success, build professional relationships across the company, brief senior leaders, and mentor others.

• All candidates must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate. Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy.
• Minimum of 5 years of IT experience in either an infrastructure or development background with proficiency in Cyber Risk Assessments.
• Experience with information security risk management framework, assessment, audit and controls based on industry standard frameworks (i.e. NIST CSF; ISO; HiTrust, FAIR)
• Experience with regulatory requirements (i.e. PCI; GDPR; HIPPA; CCPA; etc.)
• Experience using GRC tools and technologies in support of the assessment/audit process (RSA Archer, MiTRE, Bitsight, etc.)
• Experience gathering information from a range of different sources to help identify weaknesses in security controls
• Expert experience with security control design, development, implementation, and monitoring