World Insurance Associates (“World”) is a unique financial services organization with a global network of brokers and specialists who empower people to make informed decisions to improve their risk management outcomes, modernize their benefits programs, and help them achieve their long-term financial goals.
Founded in 2011, World is one of the fastest-growing, Top 25 insurance brokers in the U.S. with nearly 3,000 employees in more than 300 offices across North America and the U.K. World specializes in personal and commercial insurance, surety and fidelity bonding, employee and executive benefits, investment advisory and retirement plan services, and payroll & HR solutions.
Position Overview / Job Summary
The Cybersecurity Analyst supports the organization’s cybersecurity program by performing day-to-day defensive security operations, monitoring, and risk management activities. This role is responsible for identifying, analyzing, and responding to security events; supporting third-party risk management and security audits; and contributing to security awareness and training initiatives. The analyst works under the direction of the Director of Cybersecurity and collaborates closely with cybersecurity engineers and IT teams to help protect the organization’s systems, data, and users.
This position is well suited for an early-career cybersecurity professional seeking hands-on experience across multiple security domains in a collaborative environment.
Key Responsibilities
Defensive Security Operations & Monitoring
- Monitor security alerts and events from security tools (e.g., SIEM, EDR, email security, vulnerability scanners).
- Triage, investigate, and document potential security incidents and suspicious activity.
- Assist with incident response activities, including containment, remediation tracking, and post-incident analysis.
- Support vulnerability management efforts, including scan review, validation, and remediation tracking.
- Assist with risk assessments and security control evaluations.
- Participate in threat intelligence review and basic threat analysis.
- Support vendor security assessments, questionnaires, and evidence review.
- Track third-party security risks and remediation activities.
- Assist in maintaining third-party risk documentation and reporting.
- Assist with internal security audits, policy reviews, and control testing.
- Help gather evidence for regulatory, customer, or internal assessments.
- Support alignment with security frameworks and standards (e.g., NIST, ISO, NYDFS, SOC).
- Assist in the development and delivery of cybersecurity awareness training.
- Support phishing simulations and user security education initiatives.
- Help promote secure behaviors across the organization.
- Work with cybersecurity engineers on security tool tuning, testing, and operational improvements.
- Document procedures, investigations, and lessons learned.
- Stay current on cybersecurity threats, technologies, and best practices.
At World Insurance Associates (WIA), we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our products, and our community to flourish. WIA is honored to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, or Veteran status. In addition, WIA makes reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant or employee with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.
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