What are the responsibilities and job description for the Information Security Specialist position at Gila River Health Care?
Position Summary : Oversees information technology security assurance programs. Reports on compliance levels and identifies non-compliance issues, suspicious activities or behavior, and vulnerabilities. Manages remediation activities and logs security assessments. Ensures that information created, acquired, or maintained by Gila River Health Care is used for its intended purpose and complies with privacy requirements.
Critical Tasks :
- Implements effective and innovative technology solutions and processes that prevent internal and external users from compromising data integrity.
- Creates security checks in the infrastructure that help deter hackers, spyware, and other malware from being installed on endpoints while working with internal information technology support team to mitigate detected vulnerabilities.
- Works with network and systems team to perform tests and uncover network vulnerabilities.
- Investigates security breaches and other cyber security incidents while assessing the damage and documents assessments.
- Reports serious incidents to leadership.
- Trains and educates staff in proper computer use and security awareness while providing tips to avoid data lass or corruption. Advises end users on security incident trends and effective counteractive measures.
- Creates, improves, and maintains information technology security policies, baselines, standards, and procedures.
- Performs other job-related activities as requested. Continually tracks trends in the information security community
Required Qualifications :
