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Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

+ Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

+ Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year

+ An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution

+ Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html) student debt program and FreeU (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html) education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

+ A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

+ A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

THE OPPORTUNITY

This **Cybersecurity Specialist** position can work out **remotely within the U.S** .

The Cybersecurity Specialist is responsible for the ongoing analysis of internal and external cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities and the production of actionable intelligence for the organization. This Cybersecurity Specialist will collect data from multiple sources, generate intelligence reports and briefings, recommend vulnerability mitigation approaches, and provide detailed analyses of emerging cybersecurity threats.

What You’ll Work On

+ Perform threat identification and mitigation activities using industry leading security controls and tools.

+ Support the advancement of the Company’s cyber threat and vulnerability management program to ensure consistent identification, analysis, response, and monitoring of cyber security threats, events, and vulnerabilities.

+ Assess threats to the business and deploy countermeasures for those threats.

+ Interface with platform management and operations teams to aid in tool configuration and to ensure appropriate log review by operations personnel and data production for input into security intelligence program

+ Facilitate development of patterns for analysis tools used to identify and thwart malicious attacks

+ Protect applications in compliance with multiple, global privacy, security, business resiliency and compliance frameworks.

QUALIFICATIONS

+ Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field

+ **5 years** **of experience in cybersecurity or** **IT management systems** , with a strong preference for product security experience in consumer-facing apps and services

+ Strong understanding of security concepts and best practices.

+ Excellent report writing skills

+ Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

+ Ability to work effectively in a team environment

PREFERRED:

+ Experience with threat intelligence report writing

+ Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CSSLP, CEH)

**Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:** www.abbottbenefits.com (http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx)

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

Connect with us at www.abbott.com , on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal

The base pay for this position is $75,300.00 – $150,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email [email protected]