Cybersecurity Advisory & Assurance Lead - Ghobash Group, Dubai · Servia

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Cybersecurity Advisory & Assurance Lead - Ghobash Group, Dubai · Servia

, NIST SP 800-series, ISO/IEC 27001/27002, CIS Critical Security Controls, UAE Information Assurance requirements, UAE/GCC cybersecurity regulations, PCI DSS, SWIFT CSP, cloud security frameworks and sector-specific requirements. Assess and advise on defensive security and SOC capabilities, including SOC operating models, SIEM and security monitoring, EDR/XDR, detection engineering, threat intelligence, threat hunting, security logging, incident response, vulnerability management, IAM/PAM, network, endpoint, email and web security, ransomware resilience, cyber crisis management, and business continuity and cyber recovery. Assess security architecture across enterprise infrastructure, cloud and hybrid environments, network, identity, endpoint, data, application security, security monitoring and, where applicable, OT/ICS environments. Assess the effectiveness and maturity of cybersecurity processes, including asset, risk, vulnerability, patch and change management, identity lifecycle and privileged access management, security monitoring, incident response, third-party risk, secure development, threat management, security architecture governance, data protection, business continuity and cyber recovery. Scope, challenge and interpret penetration-testing and red-team assessments; review vulnerability and penetration-testing results and assess vulnerability management and remediation processes. Validate whether technical findings represent material business risks and work with offensive-security specialists to translate them into risk and remediation programmes, supporting purple-team and control-validation activities where required. Conduct cybersecurity governance and cyber-risk assessments, assess governance structures and accountability, evaluate cyber-risk management methodologies, support regulatory and compliance readiness, and map controls across multiple regulatory frameworks. Identify security gaps, risks, control weaknesses and capability deficiencies, and develop prioritised remediation roadmaps and cybersecurity improvement programmes. Develop maturity models, heatmaps, risk registers and management dashboards, and produce executive, management and detailed technical assessment reports. Present findings and recommendations to CISOs, CIOs, executives and governance committees, translating highly technical issues into business-risk language and practical remediation recommendations. Lead customer workshops and stakeholder interviews; define assessment methodologies and evidence requirements, and maintain evidence traceability between findings and conclusions. Manage assessment workstreams and guide junior consultants, challenging customer assumptions professionally and constructively. Support proposals, RFP responses, statements of work and customer presentations, and assist Account Managers in identifying follow-on cybersecurity opportunities. Education