Cyber Security Officer
TE Connectivity14 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Develop and lead the business unit’s product cybersecurity strategy aligned with business and customer requirements.
- Establish cybersecurity policies, standards, secure design principles, and governance across hardware, firmware, and embedded software development.
- Integrate cybersecurity into the secure product development lifecycle and new product introduction process.
- Lead threat modeling, product-level risk assessments, mitigation planning, and security design reviews.
- Establish static and dynamic code analysis, penetration testing, firmware validation, and hardware security testing processes.
- Manage vulnerability disclosure, incident response, root cause analysis, and remediation activities.
- Define cybersecurity requirements for suppliers and assess third-party and open-source components.
- Partner with system architects on secure protocols, encryption, authentication, key management, secure boot, firmware integrity, and update mechanisms.
- Ensure compliance with applicable cybersecurity regulations, standards, audits, certifications, and customer assessments.
- Train engineering and product teams and advise technical and executive leadership on cybersecurity risks and practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer engineering, electrical engineering, cybersecurity, or a related field.
- At least 10 years of cybersecurity experience with strong emphasis on embedded systems and/or hardware-integrated products.
- Experience with high-speed electronics, data center infrastructure, or networking products is strongly preferred.
- Proven experience implementing secure development lifecycle practices.
- Expertise in embedded systems security, firmware, RTOS, low-level software, ASICs, FPGAs, side-channel risks, secure elements, cryptography, secure boot, authentication protocols, network security, vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, secure firmware updates, and key management.
- Knowledge of secure development lifecycle frameworks, product security standards for data center and networking environments, and Zero Trust Architecture concepts.
- Knowledge of ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017/27018, NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0, NIST SP 800-53, SOC 2 Type II, and ANSI/TIA-942.
- Strong cross-functional leadership and ability to influence design decisions without direct authority.
- Excellent communication, analytical, prioritization, and problem-solving skills.
- Willingness to travel as required, approximately 30%.
Benefits
- Approximately 30% travel is required.
- The role works across engineering, quality, product management, customers, suppliers, and executive leadership.
About TE Connectivity
TE Connectivity designs and manufactures connectors, sensors, and interconnect systems used by automotive, industrial, energy, aerospace, data center, and medical OEMs. It sells these components and related engineering services to equipment makers and system integrators worldwide, supporting applications from e-mobility and factory automation to communications infrastructure. The company is publicly traded as TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) and was previously known as Tyco Electronics after its 2007 separation from Tyco International.