Senior Specialist Cybersecurity

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, You Can Do Work That Matters, Grow, And Learn, Care For Yourself And Family, Be Your True Self And Live a Full Life. You’ll Also Have Access To

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
  
  

The Opportunity

This role is an Office based position, located in Abbott Irving, TX office.

Our location in Irving, TX currently has an opportunity for a Sr. Specialist Cybersecurity. The Senior Cybersecurity Specialist is responsible for assisting and identifying potential security risks, vulnerabilities, and threats to execute mitigation and remediation strategies/processes that ensure Abbott builds safe and secure products that are compliant with industry cybersecurity regulation and meet customer and patient security expectations.

What You’ll Work On

• Develop and implement cybersecurity deliverables for product software releases and provide technical security answers to customer questions. Protecting manufacturing assets through implementation of controls, performing vulnerability evaluations, assessing risk and explaining/mitigating risks with management. Evaluate the cybersecurity posture of thirdparty vendors and suppliers providing components or services for products.
• Provide updates, review policies, track compliance, coordinate projects and defend policies in audits. Monitor threat dashboards, work to ensure asset inventory is managed, and participate in incident response. Offer cybersecurity expertise, support the development of guidance documents, and ensure consistent execution of key tasks.
• Work with development operations and teams to develop and implement monitoring and security solutions in stand-alone and embedded product software and supporting applications. Conduct comprehensive software assessments to identify potential security risks and vulnerabilities.
• Secure one or more applications and up to hundreds of computing assets across public, private or hybrid cloud infrastructures. Protect applications in compliance with multiple global privacy, security, business resiliency and compliance frameworks.
• Conduct rigorous oversight of security systems and security configuration administration and define and implement solutions to reduce risk to systems, assets and accounts. Participate in incident breach and response activities for product and supporting applications.
• Lead remediation efforts after security assessment findings outline weaknesses requiring attention. Support the advancement of cyber threat and vulnerability management program to ensure consistent identification, analysis, response, and monitoring of cyber security threats, events, and vulnerabilities.
• Participate in cross-functional team coordination to achieve defined security goals as well as meet technical requirements in support of detailed implementation plans for security projects. Provide technical advice and training about potential security risks and prevention strategies.
• Develop security content for monthly site security metrics reporting on the efficacy and efficiency of security program deployment at the site, based on global metrics & reporting standards. Assist in the completion of Secure Lifecycle Process (SLP) cybersecurity assessments and threat modeling, ensuring compliance with industry standards and identifying potential security vulnerabilities throughout the software development lifecycle.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer and information sciences or engineering, Security Systems, or related fields
• Minimum 5 years related business experience
• Minimum 2 years in IT management system, cybersecurity, or other relevant experience with a strong preference for product security (i.e. – consumer facing applications and services).
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated knowledge of common security frameworks and standards (e.g. – National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), ISO 27001 and 62304, Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture (PERA).
• Understanding of product safety risk and relationship with product cybersecurity risk.
• Holds or working toward one or more relevant certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), or equivalent.
• Ability to prioritize multiple projects with strong organization skills. Demonstrated critical thinking, analytical skills, judgment, and logic for problem-solving and decision-making in an environment with changing priorities.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment, adapting to rapidly changing business and technological needs.
• Excellent documentation, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Previous work experience in a product development cybersecurity role.
• Familiarity with design of diagnostic equipment, medical devices, or other closely related products.
  
  

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is $75,300.00 – $150,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.