Threat & Vulnerab Analyst II

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey empowers our members to achieve their best health. For over 90 years, we have been New Jersey's health solutions leader driving innovations that improve health care quality, affordability, and member experience. Our members are our neighbors, our friends, and our families. It is this understanding that drives us to better serve and care for the 3.5 million people who place their trust in us. We pride ourselves on our best-in-class employees and strive to maintain an innovative and inclusive environment that allows them to thrive. When our employees bring their best and succeed, the Company succeeds.

The Threat and Vulnerability Analyst works with the Information Technology Division to develop and modify processes that identify and remediate vulnerabilities in Horizons technical environment. The TVM Analyst II is actively scanning the Enterprise environment both internally and externally, create standards, and handle false positives and exceptions. In addition, the TVM Analyst will work to create long term solutions to potential threats to our environment. The incumbent will stay current on industry standards, evaluating trends, and reporting back to senior management regarding activity that needs resolution.

Responsibilities :

• Develop and enhance scanning strategies to ensure complete coverage of Horizons entire networked environment.
• Partner with senior leaders within the IT Division to categorize vulnerabilities based on severity and risk for exploitation, and to categorize assets by criticality.
• Partner with the IT Division to establish SLAs for the remediation of vulnerabilities based on the severity of the vulnerability and the criticality of the asset.
• Partner with the IT Division to track vulnerability remediation.
• Collaborate with IT leadership regarding false positive determination and exceptions processes
• Converse with Senior Management at all levels as to the current state of risk posed by vulnerabilities in the Horizon environment and the proposed remediation of those vulnerabilities..
• Create, maintain and present weekly and monthly metrics, to various audiences.
• Create and modify processes / procedures as needed, such as those supporting vulnerability remediation and the processing of threat intelligence.
• Ensure appropriate controls are being executed and policies / standards are enforced to satisfy Audit requirements.
• Assist in building a threat hunting program by developing and documenting threat and response scenarios and use cases

Education / Experience :

Additional licensing, certifications, registrations :

Knowledge :

Skills and Abilities :

Experience working with IT teams to prioritize both vulnerabilities and systems so that the most critical vulnerabilities are removed from the most critical systems in a short time span, including :

Horizon BCBSNJ employees must live in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut or Delaware

Salary Range : $96,300 - $131,565

This compensation range is specific to the job level and takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to : education, experience, licensure, certifications, geographic location, and internal equity. This range has been created in good faith based on information known to Horizon at the time of posting. Compensation decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each case. Horizon also provides a comprehensive compensation and benefits package which includes :

Comprehensive health benefits (Medical / Dental / Vision)

Retirement Plans

Generous PTO

Incentive Plans

Wellness Programs

Paid Volunteer Time Off

Tuition Reimbursement

Disclaimer :

This job summary has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by colleagues within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of colleagues assigned to this job.

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability and any other protected class as required by federal, state or local law. Horizon will consider reasonable accommodation requests as part of the recruiting and hiring process.