WHAT DOES AN INFORMATION SECURITY CONSULTANT DO?

Published: Aug 25, 2025 - The Information Security Consultant designs and implements security solutions, evaluates emerging technologies, and ensures alignment with industry standards to protect information assets. This role contributes to policy development, audit compliance, and the integration of security controls across cloud environments and solution lifecycles. The consultant also collaborates with technical teams, supports internal tools, and fosters secure practices throughout the organization.

A Review of Professional Skills and Functions for Information Security Consultant

1. Information Security Consultant Duties

  • Project Management: Manage tactical and operational activities of projects related to Information Security Governance and its related security risks
  • Artifact Development: Develop security-related artifacts, including security plans, policies, procedures, risk assessments, business continuity plans, etc.
  • Security Consulting: Provide Information Security Consulting Services for European Commission Agencies as well as the Public and Private Sectors
  • Security Expertise: Provide information security expertise to business analysts, development teams, IT Engineers and Architects
  • Policy Support: Support corporate Information Security Management System activities and promote the corporate Information Security policies and good practices
  • Standards Implementation: Align, implement and operate the information security standards and best practices from the business, project management, and technical perspectives
  • Security Advisory: Participate in an Information Security advisory role in business-related projects of the European Commission, Enterprise, and Public Sectors
  • Presales Support: Provide presales supportive material regarding Information Security and Security Assurance services to clients
  • Schedule Management: Assist the business unit executive in managing the overall HITRUST service project schedule
  • Client Relations: Direct and frequent involvement in sponsor, client, and customer relations to ensure that service expectations are met
  • Risk Mitigation: Identify, document, and drive issues and risks to resolution/mitigation and escalate to leadership for assistance
  • Decision Support: Develop decision documents for options to resolve issues/risks
  • Policy Compliance: Adhere to Program Management Office policies, procedures and methodologies
  • Methodology Improvement: Assist in establishing and improving project management methodologies, procedures and policies
  • Regulatory Awareness: Stay current on all HITRUST CSF advisories, CSF versions and applicable regulatory factors
  • Task Tracking: Responsible for tracking and managing submission tasks

2. Information Security Consultant Details

  • SIEM Management: Maintaining SIEM platform stability, diagnosing and resolving issues related to the platform, responding to and resolving SIEM alerts, and onboarding data into the SIEM
  • Incident Triage: Assist with the triage of potential incidents and/or breaches to the MassMutual network and systems
  • Operational Improvement: Look for and find ways to improve operations
  • Threat Research: Take a lead role in conducting security research on threats and remediation techniques/technology
  • Remediation Leadership: Lead remediation activities stemming from security event analysis, vulnerability management and intrusion detection
  • Standards Development: Support MassMutual’s operational information security responsibilities, including the development and maintenance of standards, procedures, and baselines necessary to meet security requirements
  • Risk Assessment: Assist information risk managers (IRMs) and the IT Controls function in conducting risk assessments to evaluate the effectiveness of existing controls
  • Impact Evaluation: Determine the impact of proposed changes to business processes, applications and systems
  • Security Projects: Participate in information security projects
  • Customer Interaction: Interact with customers regularly
  • Compliance Review: Compare current practices against legal and regulatory requirements, international standards and best practices
  • Documentation Preparation: Prepare management reports and system documentation such as policies, procedures, etc.
  • Governance Advisory: Work within the security governance team to assess security protocols and advise on matters of risk and regulation
  • ISO Advisory: Advice on an ISO27K Accreditation and how this should be implemented across the company
  • Threat Assessment: Assess current threats to the security architecture and infrastructure, advising on matters to prevent incidents

3. Information Security Consultant Responsibilities

  • Solution Design: Design, develop, and document security solutions for implementation by engineering teams
  • Technology Evaluation: Evaluate new and emerging security technologies for potential suitability in the company's environment
  • Security Expertise: Act as a security subject matter expert utilizing current information security technology disciplines and industry standards to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets
  • Policy Development: Contribute to the development of security policies, security standards, and risk governance processes
  • Team Collaboration: Develop and foster relationships with technical teams and business partners to create an integrated approach that provides data integrity, information confidentiality, and service availability
  • Audit Participation: Participate in IT security audit activities both internal and external, ensuring compliance with Federal regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley, Data Privacy acts, and Payment Card Industry standards
  • Organizational Support: Support peer security organizations throughout the company
  • Cloud Monitoring: Monitor the security posture of cloud environments and address identified issues within the deployment
  • Control Implementation: Implement patterns of cloud security controls throughout the solution delivery lifecycle
  • Pattern Development: Design and develop generic cloud security patterns and guidelines to enable applications to stay compliant
  • Tool Contribution: Contribute features to internally developed Information Security tools

4. Information Security Consultant Job Summary

  • Policy Implementation: Implements FISMA, NIST, DISA, DHS policies and FIPS requirements for Security Authorization (SA) activities
  • Security Review: Responsible for security reviews of Cost Estimates, SOWs and project security requirements
  • Risk Assessment: Assists with risk identification, assessment and response on project security matters
  • Privacy Documentation: Develops Privacy documentation (PTA/PIA), security classification guidance and personnel security procedures
  • Plan Development: Develops and reviews IT Contingency and Systems Security Plans (SSP)
  • Access Requirements: Creates security procedures and system access requirements for vendors and support staff
  • Personnel Security: Assists with Personnel Security policies/procedures for contractors
  • SA Documentation: Develops and prepares organized SA documentation for the Certifying Agent’s review
  • Client Support: Assist the client in understanding the “information protection” needs that support the mission or business
  • Protection Allocation: Allocates information protection needs to systems
  • Security Context: Develops system security context, a preliminary system security CONOPS, and baseline security requirements
  • System Analysis: Works with the systems engineer in the areas of functional analysis and allocation by analyzing candidate architectures, allocating security services, and selecting security mechanisms
  • Function Allocation: Identifies components or elements, allocates security functions to those elements, and describes the relationships between the elements
  • Security Design: Analyzes design constraints, analyzes trade-offs, does detailed system and security design, and considers life-cycle support

5. Information Security Consultant Accountabilities

  • Client Engagement: Customer engagement and project execution, providing information security consultation and assessment services
  • Compliance Evaluation: Helping clients meet their compliance obligations by evaluating their business, technology and operations against security standards like the PCI DSS or HIPAA
  • Technical Advisory: Sharing expertise with clients and colleagues to aid in making decisions on topics like strategy and scope as well as deep and highly technical projects like web application architecture and security
  • Findings Reporting: Providing clear, organized findings and recommendations to clients and tracking progress towards resolution and compliance
  • Report Production: Producing detailed, high-quality reports for clients and industry third parties, like payment card brands and the PCI Security Standards Council
  • Knowledge Sharing: Learning from a close-knit group as well as contributing thoughts, tools, industry news or lessons learned
  • Secure Development: Working with clients to implement practices to produce secure applications and identify and eliminate security vulnerabilities
  • Project Coordination: Working independently, undertaking information security engagements including working coordination and project management (client interaction, deliverables, work plans, escalations, etc.)
  • Business Growth: Growing the business by identifying upsells with existing and potential clients
  • Status Reporting: Providing regular status reports on all projects
  • Team Adaptability: Being a team player and having the capability to expand/adapt skills in fast-paced, ever-changing industry

6. Information Security Consultant Functions

  • Risk Standards: Develop knowledge of governance and risk standards and practices and demonstrate the ability to complete required working documents and client engagements
  • Report Writing: Participate in multiple consulting projects in fast-paced environments, author detailed assessment and compliance reports, and present findings to clients in a consultative, advisory setting
  • Requirement Analysis: Understand and communicate client requirements
  • Risk Advisory: Act as a trusted advisor to clients on consulting engagements for risk assessments (ISO, NIST, HIPAA, PCI, Third Party, etc.), PCI compliance, and support of additional governance practices
  • Remediation Support: Help develop the client’s understanding of security practices and their responsibilities as well as assist in remediation planning, guidance, and treatment
  • Product Testing: Evaluate the effectiveness of security products via hands-on testing
  • Solution Architecture: Participate in architecting security solutions
  • Best Practices: Contribute best practices, findings, checklists, templates, testing methods and techniques, and research in support of the Delivery Services Framework
  • Technical Awareness: Maintain a deep understanding of business unit applications and technical architecture
  • Agile Planning: Attend SAFe Agile PI planning to ensure security-related requests are understood and prioritized
  • Regulatory Compliance: Execute responsibilities associated with the business unit in a manner that meets relevant industry regulations, privacy laws, standards and compliance requirements
  • Security Awareness: Facilitate and promote activities to create and improve information security awareness within the organization
  • Stakeholder Education: Educate stakeholders on cybersecurity-related matters in an effort to increase awareness and improve culture
  • Security Consulting: Provide Information Security advisory and consulting to teams developing new capabilities
  • Data Protection: Provide guidance and direction on best practices for the protection of information
  • Secure Design: Support security by design and default-related efforts by participating in concept/service and technology assessment reviews, and application code scanning
  • Maturity Assessment: Lead information security maturity assessments on an ongoing basis

7. Information Security Consultant Job Description

  • Compliance Management: Manage the Security compliance programme
  • Security Monitoring: Perform security monitoring and potentially carry out forensic analysis to detect security incidents
  • Process Improvement: Continuously improve security operations through automation and process refinements
  • Security Testing: Conduct PCI DSS assessments and security testing
  • Systems Thinking: Drive efforts as an SME, thinking in whole systems, working within and between teams to have a positive security impact
  • Strategy Implementation: Implement and audit the Global IT Security Strategy for the company
  • Trend Awareness: Stay up-to-date with trends in the information security community including new vulnerabilities, methodologies, and products
  • Audit Resolution: Track and ensure adequate and timely resolution to all audit and risk assessment findings or issues relating to information security, and never miss a deadline
  • Client Communication: Effectively and appropriately communicate audit engagement reports and recommendations to client management and resolve any client concerns or questions
  • Service Contribution: Meet/exceed defined contribution goals for services
  • Relationship Management: Achieve target Net Promoter Scores for service by managing client relationships
  • Trust Building: Earn and gain the trust and respect of the PPS team

8. Information Security Consultant Overview

  • Assessment Development: Expertise and knowledge to develop, implement, and maintain security assessment processes and tools to review security controls for mission-critical engineering and ERP applications (SAP and Team Center PLM)
  • Architectural Leadership: Provide security architectural leadership to ERP and engineering applications' cybersecurity programs
  • SAP Security: Conduct security assessments and implement remedial measures on SAP Systems in close alignment with the application teams
  • Internal Assessment: Conduct a security assessment on internal applications/infrastructure and deliver reports detailing assessment observations and associated recommendations for information security program development to help the client meet security and compliance standards
  • Standards Alignment: Align standards, frameworks and security with the overall business and technology strategy
  • Design Review: Identify security design gaps in existing and proposed architectures and recommend changes or enhancements
  • Vulnerability Review: Review the design of new and existing functionality for security vulnerabilities and suggest best practices and improvements
  • Issue Triage: Triage results of penetration tests, security scans, and educate development teams on the reported issues, and recommend approaches to resolve or mitigate the issues
  • Security Collaboration: Take a broad view of the position and take initiative to communicate, interact, and cooperate with others to ensure that all aspects of a security concern are addressed
  • Threat Research: Perform technical research into advanced, targeted attacks, crimeware campaigns, malware and other emerging technologies and techniques to identify and report on cyber-attacks and attackers
  • Proactive Analysis: Perform proactive research to identify, categorize and produce reports on new and existing threats
  • ERP Security: Continuously and proactively assesses the ERP and engineering applications for cybersecurity weaknesses, and prioritizes plans to enhance security controls
  • Security Metrics: Develop, monitor, and manage cybersecurity performance and hygiene metrics related to the ERP and engineering applications

9. Information Security Consultant Details and Accountabilities

  • Project Coordination: Work closely with the Project Managers of assigned deployment projects of security technology products in customers’ environment (e.g., EDR, DAM, SIEM, UBA and SOAR, etc.)
  • Technical Implementation: Overall responsible for the technical implementation of the in-scope security technologies
  • Timely Delivery: Ensure the timely and smooth implementation of in-scope security technologies according to the proposed technical solutions
  • Customer Interaction: Interact and front Customers and internal teams on technical implementation-related matters of assigned projects
  • Meeting Participation: Attend internal and Customer meetings
  • Project Handover: Document and hand over completed implementation projects to the designated Maintenance and Operations parties
  • Solution Validation: Validate and provide feedback on security product technical solutions proposed by the Presales Team
  • Deployment Support: Support the project from initiation to the Go-Live phase on the security-related topics
  • Requirement Provision: Provide Daimler and CCSL requirements to the project team
  • Profile Creation: Create security profiles for the applications
  • Cloud Security: Support the projects team on the security profile in Data@cloud and analyze the security risks
  • Testing Mitigation: Consult the project team to mitigate penetration test (EPA), Code analysis (SCAS), Security Profile (SP), and data@cloud findings
  • Risk Evaluation: Perform risk assessment of findings that cannot be mitigated on time

10. Information Security Consultant Tasks

  • Risk Identification: Identify security risks through the identification of vulnerabilities throughout the lifecycle, assess the exposure, likelihood and severity of the risk in a quantitative or qualitative format that follows an industry-recognised risk assessment methodology
  • Secure Development: Support the secure product/system development following a secure by design methodology or following secure coding principles
  • Component Selection: Select appropriate security components to provide security-enforcing functions that can be justified through the evaluation of the component's security function and implementation
  • Cryptographic Knowledge: Identify where cryptography can be applied, the fundamentals behind the technology and the ability to select the correct cryptographic product
  • Connected Security: Articulate how security in the connected world is best implemented at the point where IT meets other industry domains such as manufacturing/CNI/Operational Technology and military environments
  • Cloud Protection: Identify the policies, technologies, applications, and controls utilized to protect virtualized IP, data, applications, services, and the associated infrastructure of cloud computing
  • Risk Mitigation: Identify suitable risk management activities (technical, physical or procedural) to direct and control an organisation or a system design to mitigate the identified risks
  • Security Documentation: Creation of security documentation to support the development of a system, which could include security Aspects, Risk Assessment, Risk Management, Security Policies, Security Test Plans/Results, and Evaluation documents
  • Design Validation: Develop tests that demonstrate the effectiveness of the design to meet the security requirements
  • Continuity Planning: Support Business Continuity Planning and Management to prevent and recover from potential threats and ensure the smooth running of an organisation or delivery of a service, and provide continuity of critical functions in the event of a disruption
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