Director, Threat Detection and Response

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Date: Oct 9, 2024

Location: USA Home Office, --, US, NA

Company: Dentsply Sirona, Inc

 

Dentsply Sirona is the world’s largest manufacturer of professional dental products and technologies, with a 130-year history of innovation and service to the dental industry and patients worldwide. Dentsply Sirona develops, manufactures, and markets a comprehensive solutions offering including dental and oral health products as well as other consumable medical devices under a strong portfolio of world class brands. Dentsply Sirona’s products provide innovative, high-quality and effective solutions to advance patient care and deliver better and safer dentistry. Dentsply Sirona’s global headquarters is located in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company’s shares are listed in the United States on NASDAQ under the symbol XRAY.

 

Bringing out the best in people

 

As advanced as dentistry is today, we are dedicated to making it even better. Our people have a passion for innovation and are committed to applying it to improve dental care. We live and breathe high performance, working as one global team, bringing out the best in each other for the benefit of dental patients, and the professionals who serve them. If you want to grow and develop as a part of a team that is shaping an industry, then we’re looking for the best to join us.

 

Working at Dentsply Sirona you are able to:

 

Develop faster - with our commitment to the best professional development.

 

Perform better - as part of a high-performance, empowering culture.

 

Shape an industry - with a market leader that continues to drive innovation.

 

Make a difference -by helping improve oral health worldwide.  

 

 

The Head of Threat Detection and Response (DART) is a global role, responsible for the strategy, oversight, and execution of multiple functions related to cybersecurity detection and response. The role is critical to protecting the company from cyber threats and requires a combination of in-depth technical expertise and highly effective organizational skills. The candidate must have strong leadership, communication and influencing skills and should be capable of leading a team in times of crisis. The ideal candidate needs to be based on the East Coast. 

 

How You'll Help Us Build a World Class Team (Key Responsibilities) 

  • Lead global team supporting 24x7 mission critical applications running on multi-cloud (GCP, Azure, AWS) infrastructure, including corporate networks, endpoints, and manufacturing facilities. 
  • Define and execute a strategy for evolving Dentsply Sirona's Detection and Response Team (DART) into a modern "Detection and Response" organization responsible for the entire lifecycle of security monitoring detection and response. 
  • Provide day-to-day management & oversight for DART, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture.
  • Serve as incident commander for major cybersecurity incidents and cyber-crisis. 
  • Build tailored security detection and prevention capabilities, ensuring comprehensive coverage against the MITRE ATT&CK & D3FEND frameworks.
  • Drive extensive uptake in incident response automation using SOAR platform to automate actions and playbooks. 
  • Analyze incident trends and threat intelligence to identify patterns and root causes to provide decision support for the Cybersecurity and the overall large Global Security Organization. 
  • Maintain governance over documentation, including management and updates of relevant policies, procedures, standards, runbooks, playbooks, and similar, making updates to stay aligned with evolving requirements and threats.
  • Report metrics and scorecards to measure effectiveness and efficiency of detection and response capabilities.
  • Mentor, coach, and develop talent within the team.
  • Drive fusion, integration and collaboration with product engineering, product security, information technology, legal, and communication teams.
  • Coordinate with technical team, consultants, and partners to orchestrate an appropriate response and ensure the engagement is completed on time and to provide the most complete engagement for the customer.

 

What You Need to Succeed (Required Qualifications)

  • 10+ years of people leadership experience
  • 15+ years progressive experience in cybersecurity with a focus on incident response
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Sciences or related field or equivalent experience/certification
  • 10+ years of progressive information technology leadership experience
  • 7+ years managing global SOC/DART teams
  • Multi-cloud experience preferred. GCP, a must have. 
  • Security certifications including CISSP/CISM and SANS GCIA/GCIH
  • The candidate must have hands-on experience within Incident Response as well as strategic/operational experience leading a team
  • Ability to write clear strategy and process documentation and experience championing new initiatives
  • Ability to lead thru influence, bring people together and effectively resolve conflicts
  • Experience hiring globally, managing, developing, and retaining top cybersecurity talent. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dentsply Sirona is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, or protected Veteran status. We appreciate your interest in Dentsply Sirona.

If you need assistance with completing the online application due to a disability, please send an accommodation request to careers@dentsplysirona.com. Please be sure to include “Accommodation Request” in the subject.

 

For California Residents:

 

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For additional details and questions, contact us at careers@dentsplysirona.com