Chief Information Security Officer

Title: CISO

Duration:6 Months

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Work Mode: Hybrid

Languages: French, English

Job Description

Mission:

The FWB faces significant challenges related to cybersecurity and NIS2 compliance requirements. This mission aims to define, raise awareness and apply cybersecurity leadership at the level of the FWB: common reference framework (policies, standards, requirements), pragmatic risk-driven approach. The objective: to bring the cyber program back under control, to federate the management committees, to deliver visible results (asset protection, continuity of public services, NIS2 compliance).

Activities:

Under the authority of the General Management of the MFWB, CISO function covering all MFWB entities, interactions with client and transversal cybersecurity coordination with the Management Committees.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Cyber Security Governance and Strategic Leadership

Define and implement cybersecurity governance (instances, RACI, processes, arbitrations)

Raise awareness and federate the MFWB's management committees around cybersecurity as a strategic issue

Implement performance-based management (KPI, dashboards, CODIR reporting)

2. Normative framework, compliance and risk management

Establish the ISS normative framework (policies, standards, minimum requirements) and orchestrate its adoption

Drive NIS2 compliance, ISO 27001 alignment

Industrialize cyber risk management and supervise the acceptance of residual risks in the Executive Committee

3. Resilience, Incident Response and Operational Security

Increasing resilience and incident response capacity (crisis management exercises, PCO/RPD)

4. Cyber corporate culture

Federate the players (business departments, IT, client, partners) around a common vision

Integrate cybersecurity into processes (projects, changes, procurement) and prepare for the transition to the permanent CISO

DESIRED PROFILE

Mandatory requirements

Professional experience

10 to 20+ years in information security, IT risk management and cyber governance

Proven experience in CISO or security management positions in complex organizations

Interactions with top management (Board, CODIR, audit committees, regulators)

Demonstrated ability to structure ISS governance organizations and frameworks

Methodological skills

Mastery of ISO 27001, NIST CSF, NIS2 standards; CISM/CISA certifications highly desired

Mastery of IS, cloud/hybrid, IAM, Zero Trust, DevSecOps architectures

Skills

• IS architecture
• Change Management
• Cloud
• Cyber Security
• Risk Management
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Information Security Management
• ISO 27001:2005
• NIS 2
• NIST CSF