Data Protection Specialist

Odyssey Reinsurance Company (OdysseyRe) is the global reinsurance arm of Odyssey Group, one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance and specialty insurance. OdysseyRe offers a broad range of property, casualty, and specialty reinsurance products, providing capital and risk management solutions for clients to efficiently manage economic risk through a network of branch and representative offices across North America, Latin America, EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa), AsiaPacific and London.

OdysseyRe is an equal opportunity employer with excellent benefits and a strong commitment to providing training and opportunities for our staff. We provide employees an innovative, enriching environment and take great pride in their career growth.

OdysseyRe is rated A+ (Superior) by AM Best and A+ (Strong) by Standard and Poor’s. Odyssey Group is a subsidiary of Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited, which is traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol FFH.

Position Summary: The Data Protection Specialist focuses on providing analysis and engineering support for the Data Protection Office. The primary responsibility includes triaging Data Discovery events, Data Loss Prevention (DLP) events, tool engineering, and interaction with business units to gather business requirements.

Essential Functions:

• Provide engineering support for Data Discovery, DLP, and Data Classification systems which include creating detection rules, reducing false positive detections, deploying and maintaining tools.
• Analyze Data Discovery, DLP, and Data Classification events and formulate metrics to indicate areas of concern.
• Coordinate with business units to gather business requirements such as unique sensitive data patterns, whitelist of authorized entities, and establish controls with least business impacts.
• Assist in addressing Data Protection control audits.

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities:

• Varonis SaaS engineering and analysis experience is a must
• Microsoft Purview DLP engineering and analysis experience
• Microsoft Purview Information Protection engineering and analysis experience
• Familiar with Keyword, Regex, Exact Data Matching (EDM) methodology for policy development
• General knowledge of NIST, ISO 27001, CIS standards

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred
• Minimum of 3-4 years of experience in Data Security and/or Data Governance

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