Manager, Cyber Security Cover Letter

I am excited to be applying for the position of manager, cyber security. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for strategic and tactical analysis, including cyber intelligence, in support of investigative, cyber, crisis and incident response, and other operations.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Strong customer service skills, written and verbal communication skills
• Exhibit judgment and a realistic understanding of issues in order to take action in solving problems
• Demonstrates self-motivation, direction and detail orientation
• Financial acumen as it applies to managing IT services
• Strong experience with compliance frameworks - NIST, ITIL, COBiT
• In depth aptitude and experience with security, network, mobile, infrastructure and applications, especially SAP
• Experience with security awareness and training
• Significant experience in managing in a large international complex environment that includes multiple partnerships, cloud service providers, and rapidly changing technologies

Please consider me for the manager, cyber security opportunity. I am including my resume that lists my qualifications and experience.

In the previous role, I was responsible for deep BP liaison with Intelligence, Law Enforcement, Private Sector and Academic organizations to enhance BP’s situation awareness and guide BP’s strategic and tactical cyber defence.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Understanding of the Hadoop platform
• Fluency with SQL on relational databases such as Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres or Oracle
• Experience collaborating and influencing stakeholders at all levels
• Want to make a difference in a dynamically challenging but fun environment
• Be happy having deep technical conversations but equally at ease talking to non technical senior leaders in our business about Cyber Security
• Good knowledge of application security, Cloud, AWS & IAM
• Background in security architecture is an advantage
• Experience in both strategic and tactical dimensions of cyber intelligence

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the manager, cyber security position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for advanced analysis and resolution of security alerts received from the SIEM escalated by Cyber Operations Analysts or received from outside sources (e.g., law enforcement, help desk).

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Practical knowledge in the strategic fields of Information Systems, Information Technology, and Information Security
• Knowledge of project management and consulting concepts and methods to effectively lead and coordinate IT security initiatives
• Excellent communication skills to translate between business decisions and complex IT concepts
• Excellent team building and capabilities to gain consensus across organizations
• Seasoned skills in managing multiple information security projects, initiatives, and processes concurrently
• Teaming and management of other Service Provider personnel for delivery of security requirements and an understanding of the Outsourcing Business model and Service Integrator model
• SIEM (ArcSight, IBM Qradar, McAfee NitroSecurity, ) solutions
• Intrusion Detection & Prevention Tools such as SNORT/Sourcefire, Palo Alto)

Please consider me for the manager, cyber security opportunity. I am including my resume that lists my qualifications and experience.

In the previous role, I was responsible for leadership -- and be the expert on -- the changing external landscape for Cyber Security, Risk Management, and Supply Chain Processes to identify current and emerging technologies/ capabilities and how these capabilities can enhance our commercial cyber product offerings.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Knowledge of and experience with risk management and mitigation
• Experience with common information security management frameworks, such as National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53, 800-171
• Familiarity with applicable legal and regulatory requirements, including, but not limited to, the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act, U.S. Personal Credit Card Information (PCI), Personal Identifiable Information (PII)
• Strong analytical skills to analyze security requirements and relate them to appropriate sec controls
• Experience communication conceptual and technical information both verbally (on phone, one-on-one, to groups) and in writing (emails, letters, reports, presentations) to various audiences (work group, team, company management, external clients)
• Active U.S. government (DoD) Secret Level or above clearance
• Apply an understanding of digital commerce to identify and introduce necessary
• Information Assurance Practitioner

In response to your job posting for manager, cyber security, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

In my previous role, I was responsible for intelligence support and situational awareness to executive decision makers about current and future cyber threats.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Proven leadership qualities (Direct/Matrix)
• People development across the function
• Previous experience as a security manager
• Management of specialist security suppliers and software vendors / 3rd parties
• Proven expertise in building defense in depth application and infrastructure security architectures that include security controls across multiple technology stacks
• Proven expertise in mitigating and understanding threat vectors including actor behavior, DDoS, Phishing, Malicious Payload, Cloud, Mobile Devices, Understands the cyber threat landscape
• Experience with application develop and application security issues
• Demonstrated experience integrating security within the various cloud service models (e.g., IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)