Insider Threat Detection Consultant

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.  Job Description **For this opportunity, the business is flexible to hire at Senior Consultant, Lead Consultant, and Expert level depending on qualifications & interview evaluation.** The Insider Threat Detection Consultant plays a key role in designing and scaling insider threat detection capabilities by translating business processes, user behavior, and existing control environments into actionable, data-driven insights. This role focuses on working across business units and risk functions to understand how the organization operates and where insider risk may exist. This position partners closely with business stakeholders, risk partners, and technical teams to identify control gaps, behavioral patterns, and operational risks. The consultant leverages security tooling, behavioral analytics, and domain knowledge in insurance and financial services to design detection signals that are both operationally relevant and analytically sound. The role requires strong analytical thinking, risk awareness, and technical capability to develop scalable detection use cases that improve visibility, enable proactive risk identification, and strengthen the organization’s overall insider threat posture.

Work across business units, HR, Legal, Cybersecurity, and risk partners to understand key processes, user behaviors, and existing control environments Translate business workflows, operational risks, and control gaps into scalable insider threat detection signals and monitoring use cases Analyze user activity, system logs, and behavioral data to identify anomalies and potential insider risk indicators Incorporate domain knowledge (e.g., insurance operations, financial risk, fraud, or cybersecurity) into detection design to improve signal relevance and accuracy Partner with detection, investigation, and engineering teams to ensure alignment between detection logic and real-world operational risk Evaluate effectiveness of existing controls and monitoring capabilities; recommend enhancements to improve detection coverage and reduce gaps Contribute to ongoing refinement of detection methodologies by incorporating investigative feedback, emerging risks, and evolving business processes Document detection logic, methodologies, and assumptions to support transparency and consistency. Key Qualifications 2+ years of experience in cybersecurity, insider threat, fraud, risk analytics, or detection engineering Experience working with security tools such as SIEM, UEBA, DLP, EDR, or identity/access monitoring platforms Exposure to insurance, financial services, fraud, or regulatory environments is preferred Supervisory Responsibilities This job does not have supervisory duties. #LI-JJ1   Skills Analytical Thinking, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Cybersecurity Risk Assessment, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Financial Services, Fraud Detection, Insider Threat Mitigation, Insurance Operations, IT Security Operations, Operational Risks, Penetration Testing, Risk Analytics, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Security Access Control, Security Monitoring, Security Tools, SIEM Tools, Stakeholder Partnerships, Threat Assessment Compensation Compensation offered for this role is $80,000 – 190,000 annually and is based on experience and qualifications. The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.   Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo.