Application Security and Compliance Programs Manager

Reporting to the VP, Info Tech & Security, the Application Security and Compliance Programs Manager is responsible our Compliance Programs & Application Security that ensures Cofense Engineering designs, builds, ships, and operates software securely whilst being responsible for our information security standards.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

• Primarily responsible for being single point of contact on all project management activities for FEDRAMP/SOC2/ISO27001 program
• Own the relationships with the 3PAO, sponsoring agency, and FedRAMP PMO
• Lead the FedRAMP continuous monitoring (ConMon) activities including the Plans of Actions and Milestones (POA&Ms)
• Lead the planning, scheduling, and preliminary analysis for all internal and external audits
• Integrating security tools, standards, and processes into the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Ensuring that software engineers are trained with the appropriate level of security knowledge to perform their daily
• Improving and supporting application security tool deployments including static analysis, dependency/component analysis, and dynamic analysis tools.
• Improving and maintaining secure development
• Supporting the incident response and architecture review processes whenever application security expertise is
• Managing annual penetration testing services and application security assessments.
• Providing manual penetration testing, threat modeling, and gap analysis for Cofense developed applications.
• Supporting Vendor Security activities to ensure 3rd‐party software and development meets Cofense security
• Support application security activities related to compliance efforts including FedRAMP/SOC 2/ISO27001.
• Execute strategic vision for the Application Security program.
• Other duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required

• FedRAMP industry relationships and knowledge
• Superb soft skills including the ability to gain the trust of stakeholders and senior management and negotiate priorities with outside teams
• Working knowledge of public cloud providers (e.g., AWS)
• Ability to translate security concepts into language that is meaningful to many audiences, including business leaders, technical leaders, and individual
• Ability to approach application security from the perspective of risk management
• Strong leadership and technical skills to effectively managers Application Security engineers.
• Understanding of deployment methodologies in use for assigned products and projects.
• Ability to multitask and context-switch across diverse teams and projects.
• Familiarity with common security libraries, security controls, and common security flaws.
• Familiarity with cloud security controls and best practices.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Education and/or Experience:

• 5+ years application security experience
• Experience must demonstrate working knowledge in all phases of preparing and reviewing complete ATO packages for information technology systems and/or applications as defined by the Federal Information Security Modernization Act and implemented by the guidance of the GSA Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP).
• Must possess a strong background with
  • NIST Risk Management Framework (SP 800-53)
  • Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 199 and 140
  • DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (SRG)
• Experience load-balancing multiple competing projects at the enterprise level.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred. Strong preference given for bachelor and advanced degrees in software technology related fields.

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