Job Description

Our story: Blackpanda is Asia\xe2\x80\x99s premier cyber security incident response firm, hyper-focused on digital forensics and cyber crisis response. Our team consists of an elite cadre of risk and security experts from various specializations, military special forces, intelligence, forensics, and law enforcement. We are also a fully distributed team across the globe and will be there 24/7 to help if a breach occurs. In addition, Blackpanda successfully closed a $12.5m USD Series A co-led by global leading private equity firms Primavera Venture Partners and Gaw Capital Partners.

What are we looking for:

• Blackpanda seeks to hire a Vice President, Digital Forensics and Incident Response principally involved with building, developing and overseeing the Digital Forensics Incident Response capability of the company across the APAC region. The ideal candidate is independent, collaborative, and solution-oriented. He or she will work under the direction of our Chief Incident Response Officer for developing and managing our DFIR team. To be successful, the VP Digital Forensics and Incident Response should be equipped with both expert-level experience in DFIR matters as well as excellent proven leadership and strategic planning capabilities.

Responsibilities and duties:

• Lead and manage the global DFIR team under the guidance of the Chief Incident Response Officer to deliver world-class, best-in-Asia DFIR services across all manners of specialization \xe2\x80\x93 BEC, ransomware, crypto asset tracing and recovery, OT, maritime environments, mobile, etc.
• Ensure delivery and execution of technical expertise in the DFIR cases activated through a high volume of SME insurance policy activations as well as select strategic enterprise DFIR cases in the Asia region
• Mentor, guide, and develop a current team of 10-12x DFIR specialists across the globe and hire 2x incoming Directors of DFIR (HK and SG) as direct reports and mid-level managers
• Design, plan, and implement a long-term strategy and objective of a 24/7 Follow the Sun DFIR model with Asia as the target market focus with teams in the APAC, US, and EU regions
• Collaborate cross-vertical to the Technology and Insurance leads on identifying and categorizing relevant cyber risk data collected from DFIR or other means for insurtech purposes
• Advise and coordinate with the CIRO on identifying tools, kit, and other tech products needed to be purchased or developed in-house with the CTO to maximize the efficacy of the DFIR team, particularly the scalability of the volume of DFIR cases the team can handle
• Optimize the DFIR service delivery via growth metric tracking and coordination with the Finance vertical to ensure maximum efficiency and ability to further scale the DFIR capacity via optimized processes
• Oversee the preparation and delivery of briefings, assessments, lessons learned, metrics analysis, after-action reports, and other program documentation, both verbally and in writing, to the client\xe2\x80\x99s executives, security team, and other key stakeholders.
• Ensures continuity of program activities and deliverables to support large projects and/or multiple simultaneous smaller projects.
• Serves as an expert resource for other team members to draw upon for cyber DFIR matters and operations