Insider Threat & Critical Asset Protection Consultant

Insider Threat & Critical Asset Protection Consultant Enterprise Cyber Security Full Time, Remote - MA ***Candidates residing within 50 miles of a MassMutual office will be expected to work a Hybrid schedule of 3 days a week in the office*** The Opportunity   MassMutual is advancing an enterprise Insider Threat program focused on identifying and managing human-driven cyber risk. The Insider Threat Consultant will play a key role in developing the asset intelligence, monitoring strategies, detection capabilities, and investigative processes necessary to identify and manage insider-driven risk.  This role combines deep technical expertise, critical asset analysis, behavioral risk assessment, and investigative discipline to understand how people interact with sensitive assets and to identify patterns of activity that may indicate elevated risk. The consultant will partner with cybersecurity operations, detection engineering, HR, Legal, Privacy, and business stakeholders to align monitoring and investigative capabilities with asset sensitivity and business impact.  The role places particular emphasis on critical asset protection, including identifying what the organization's most valuable assets are, where they reside across the enterprise, who can access them, and how they support critical business processes, so that monitoring, investigative, and detection capabilities are prioritized against the assets that matter most.  This position is suited for an experienced practitioner who can operate across technical, analytical, and investigative domains while helping build and mature an enterprise-scale insider threat program.

The Insider Threat team is a specialized cybersecurity function responsible for understanding and managing the risks that trusted individuals may pose to MassMutual's critical assets, systems, information, and operations.  The team operates at the intersection of critical asset protection, identity and access management, behavioral analytics, cyber defense, investigations, and workforce risk. Team members develop the intelligence, monitoring strategies, detection capabilities, investigative processes, and analytical frameworks necessary to identify and reduce insider-driven risk.  The team partners closely with Cyber Operations, Detection Engineering, Human Resources, Legal, Privacy, Compliance, Fraud Operations, and business stakeholders to ensure insider risk is identified, assessed, and managed in a consistent, defensible, and risk-informed manner.  The Impact   The Insider Threat Consultant will:  Identify and prioritize critical assets requiring enhanced monitoring and protection.  Analyze how critical assets are accessed, used, and shared across the enterprise.  Map relationships between identities, access privileges, business processes, and critical assets.  Determine where critical assets reside across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and third-party technology environments.  Map business processes, applications, and operational dependencies that support critical assets.  Identify exposure pathways, concentration risks, and control gaps associated with critical assets.  Define protection requirements aligned to asset criticality and business impact.  Analyze behavioral and technical indicators associated with insider risk.  Identify patterns of activity that may indicate misuse or mishandling of critical assets.  Conduct and support complex insider threat investigations.  Correlate identity, access, asset, and behavioral signals across multiple data sources.  Monitor and analyze deception environments and adversary interaction signals.  Partner with detection engineering and security operations to develop and refine insider threat detection logic.  Contribute to tuning enterprise security tooling to improve identification of insider-driven risk.  Support development of early-warning frameworks and proactive risk identification.  Produce clear, defensible analytical