Information Security Consultant

Your Role and responsibilities

We are looking for an Information Security Consultant to join our Security Strategy & Advisory business unit.

You will be part of a diversified team with all levels of seniority. You will integrate your field of action within a more global cybersecurity approach. Therefore, you will also benefit from the experience of our 100 experts to teach you the needed skills and make your career take off.

If you want to take a role in a human centric company who put efforts in developing its collaborators, there is a place for you here. Thanks to our Cyber Academy and the support of your own Career Counsellor, Approach puts your skills’ growth at the center of its activities.

As a pure player in cyber security, we take the position of a strategical partner to help our clients securing their information, while providing our consultants many varied opportunities across the whole security roadmap.

Through this wide perspective, our Information Security Consultants advise our customers on how to improve their cybersecurity maturity and resilience. We assist our clients during the whole security journey, from assessing the current state, to proposing security improvements and managing implementation and changes.

Concretely, as an Information Security Consultant, you could:

• Provide high value services to customers in the light of Approach’s Information security offering/business:
• Perform security and risk assessment at client (e.g. perform our ACAM® (Approach Cybersecurity Assessment Methodology) to evaluate their cybersecurity maturity.
• Implemente information security management systems (ISMS), governance, risk management, based on regulations and standards.
• Be the driver of change to manage, coordinate or pilot security projects in line with the decisions.
• Propose security improvements, define priorities and create security roadmaps to follow.
• Accompany your client through the change management process.
• Develop and implement plans to anticipate, address, and mitigate the effects of various business interruptions
• Provide CISO or assistant-CISO services to our customers (i.e. provide strategic and technical advise, organizing the information security related activities, supporting customers to manage security incident(s), …)

Use your energy, your proactivity, and your smile to make our Security Strategy & Advisory business unit grow by (i.e.):

• Actively contributing to the development of tools and methodologies used by your team.
• Sharing your knowledge about topic news to your team (e.g. market needs, trends, technology evolutions that impact information security, …)
• Contributing to develop a business/commercial approach towards potential customers.

• Following and coaching junior colleagues.

You have:

• A first relevant experience in Information/IT Security in a similar function
• Knowledge of regulatory and/or sector specific standards and frameworks (e.g. ISO27000, NIS2, DORA, SOC2, CIS Critical Security Controls, ...)
• Ability to understand senior management considerations (strategic level) and ability to help them in their decision.
• English and Dutch is a must have. Bilingual (FR/NL) is a plus.

Considered as a plus:

• Recognized Information Security certifications like ISO27001 Lead Implementer or Lead Auditor, ISO27005, EBIOS, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CISA, COBIT, ITIL, CCSK
• Exposure to ISMS operation or implementation, cloud security projects, Third-Party risk management projects, business continuity plan (BCP) or disaster recovery plan (DRP), security assessments, security incidents, crisis management, awareness activities, …

Mindset :

• Willingness to provide high quality deliverables and to go the extra mile.
• True communicator with Business level communication skills: to talk and negotiate with different customers’ stakeholders at both technical and business level; to lead a security project and be able to explain it to technical and non-technical audience; to perform trainings and conduct meetings with customers’ stakeholders
• Project oriented by being dedicated to the client’s objectives and give advice.
• Teamplayer
• Manage diverse workloads and prioritize accordingly.
• Uncompromised integrity: respect for the confidentiality of both client and company information
• Ambassador for the professional values that are at the heart of our philosophy:
  TOP-NOTCH
  HUMAN-CENTRIC
  NO-NONSENSE