Senior Director – Cyber Security Operations

WHO ARE WE? Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment company, comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship. Ticketmaster is the global leader in event ticketing with over 620 million tickets sold annually and approximately 10,000 clients worldwide.  Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world promoting more than 50,000 events annually for nearly 7,000 artists in 40+ countries. These businesses allow Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programs that connect more than 1,200 sponsors with the 145 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year. For additional information, visit  www.livenationentertainment.com . WHO ARE YOU? Passionate and motivated. Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit. Resourceful, innovative, forward thinking and committed. At Live Nation Entertainment, our people embrace these qualities, so if this sounds like you then please read on!

The Cyber Defense and Incident Response team operates within the Corporate Information Security and Privacy Organization and are a critical function within Live Nation Entertainment.  We specialize in detecting and responding to adverse events within our global network and provide snap response times to mitigate the impact of potential threats.

As Manager of the Cyber Defense team, you will provide the first layer of defense by continuously improving current detections through innovative automation techniques that improve detection and response times to intercept and defend against cyberattacks. You will be the subject matter expert in all things related to threat detection and response.  Learning how the adversary operates and their key objectives is imperative to protecting and defending against damage to mission-critical systems.  Detecting these precursors allow the team to respond quickly to reduce the risk to the organization. You will work with a team that shares a common goal: continuously improving threat detection and response by building a strong team of SMEs who share ownership of the mission and the duty to protect the global organization. We are growing our team to provide threat detection and incident response capabilities for Live Nation Entertainment; this is an exciting time to join! WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO Prepare, detect, respond and mitigate against cyber threats, protecting Live Nation Entertainment data and assets utilizing industry information security best practices Lead a geographically dispersed team of technical detection and response analysts who are responsible for monitoring, detecting, triaging, and responding to security events and incidents in Live Nation Entertainment’s 24x7 global network Implementation of detection methodologies with a solid understanding of how to baseline network traffic and monitor for anomalous activity for early detection and mitigation Responsible for all management activities related to the Threat Detection and Response team’s operations including people management, training, and mentoring of direct reports Leverage automation and orchestration solutions to automate repetitive tasks Network, collaborate and engage multiple internal and external teams and subject matter experts to address cyber security issues to reduce overall organizational risk Contribute to and support team projects and strategic initiatives, including improving current workflows and processes to mature our monitoring and response capabilities Assist with incident response as events are escalated to include threat hunting, data collection/analysis, triage, containment, remediation and documentation Champion process documentation and lessons learned to improve team efficiency and consistency for scalable response operations to ensure continuous improvement of internal playbooks Develop and deliver metrics that measure the