Cybersecurity Consultant
Digital Transformation - Zoetermeer
What are you going to do as Cybersecurity consultant?
As a Cybersecurity consultant at Highberg, you play a crucial role in shaping cybersecurity and ICT risk management for our clients. Typically, you engage at a strategic level with executives from large municipalities, banks, and insurers, discussing the setup of IT security within their organizations.
You easily collaborate with managers and ICT specialists at a tactical level. Your focus includes aspects such as securing business processes, raising employee awareness, managing ICT infrastructure and operations, application security, and identity management, from assessment to design. Additionally, you address OT security, both technically and in management terms. As a consultant, you provide advice, oversee implementation, or assess the quality of security setups.
Information security, business continuity management, enterprise risk management, and cyber resilience are part of your daily expertise. You adeptly identify risks in business processes and recommend necessary measures to intervene effectively.
"At Highberg, I have the opportunity to align what drives me with what I do, and to execute it according to my own insights. There's room for development, choosing my own path, and initiating new endeavors. In the field of cybersecurity, I find this to be an excellent combination, given the constantly evolving market and daily advancements."
Floris Baauw, Cybersecurity consultant at Highberg
Examples of projects you will carry out as Cybersecurity consultant
Our clients value your practical and strong advisory skills. Through project-oriented and results-driven approaches, you help them secure and enhance business processes and ICT reliability by:
- identifying risks within processes;
- securing security in ICT architecture;
- increasing employee awareness;
- establishing security processes and basic management processes;
- implementing cyber resilience;
- ensuring compliance with security guidelines and privacy regulations;
- assisting in achieving external certifications such as ISO2700x or NEN7510.
What is our vision on cybersecurity?
We view cybersecurity as a business issue where our goal is to ensure 'it works'. Beyond documenting 'how it should be done', tailored to the client's organization, we emphasize the importance of ensuring the organization operates securely. This involves implementing processes among people and in information systems, thereby making the organization's business processes and valuable data genuinely more secure. Compliance with laws and regulations naturally follows as a beneficial outcome.
We assist our clients in making the right choices in this regard. These choices align with the organization's ambitions and objectives on one hand, and with its culture and resources on the other. We always do this collaboratively with the client, preferably as a team effort. As a Highberg consultant, you bring your unique knowledge and experience to combine with that of your colleagues. This approach helps both the client and your own professional development. Together, we ensure that 'it works'.
What are we asking?
A completed HBO (Bachelor's) or WO (Master's) degree, and several years of advisory experience;
Current knowledge of ICT risk management, cybersecurity, and business continuity management;
Experience in advising on the implementation of standards such as ISO2700x, BIO, Cobit, and the implementation of specific measures such as Identity & Access Management, data encryption, security in management processes, etc.;
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Dutch.
Who are you?
You have a passion for cybersecurity and an interest in new developments such as IoT security, Security Operations, and cyber resilience;
Someone who can quickly grasp a problem and articulate it as simply as possible (both verbally and in writing);
A sociable individual who enjoys maintaining contact with clients and identifying commercial opportunities.
What are we offering?
A competitive salary and excellent benefits including performance pay, provisions for mobility, pension and leave;
Sincere attention to personal development including coaching by colleagues, access to and wide range of education and training and a personal development plan with matching investments;
A place within a challenging and growing organization where taking personal responsibility is valued, you have the autonomy and freedom to perform your work flexibly with short lines of communication with colleagues;
A pleasant working environment with a pleasant and easily accessible office, focus on performance as a team and not on the individual and numerous social activities such as get-togethers, sports activities and team meetings.
Our application process
About the team
At Highberg, we are proactive, positive, and thrive on collaboration. We help each other learn new things and bring out the best in ourselves. Within the Security & Risk expert group, we can be ourselves. There is ample room, both professionally and personally, to be open, ask questions, and learn from each other, regardless of whether you're junior or senior. This inclusive culture enables us to easily leverage each other's experiences, insights, and constructive criticism. We do this systematically through mentorship, coaching, and ensuring high-quality deliverables in our projects, both in structured and ad hoc ways. We are a driven and results-oriented team, each with our own expertise, and we combine this with a strong external focus on client interests and shared humor.
We are happy to help!
If you have any questions about this vacancy or would like to further discuss opportunities within Highberg, please contact HR - Kelly van der Heijde via kelly.vanderheijde@highberg.com.
