Cyber Operations

Cyber Operations purpose is to support safe care and build public trust by building NHS England’s cyber resilience and enabling the wider health system to be cyber resilient, supporting Transformation Directorate’s purpose of delivering the best care and outcomes for the NHS.

The Cyber Operations Sub-directorate

The Cyber Operations Sub-directorate Consists Of Four Operational Areas

• Cyber Security Operations Unit (CSOU & SIO)
• Cyber Delivery Unit (CDU)
• Cyber Improvement Programme
• Chief Information Security Office Function (CISO)

This role is in the Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC) which is part of CSOU and provides centralised security monitoring across both NHS England and the wider health and care system in England. The CSOC teams work closely together to improve NHS cyber resilience and enable a “Defend as one” strategy across the health and care system.

The Security Advisor SIEM Engineering

The Security Advisor SIEM Engineering provides new and enhanced SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) system and tooling capability for the CSOC, including deploying feeds from data sources, building cyber detection capability, improving the automation of security monitoring and managing the SIEM environment.

The Security Advisor SIEM Engineering Is Responsible For

• Deploying feeds from data sources into NHS England’s SIEM system and ensuring compliance with the SIEM’s data modelling, for both newly developed services and existing services being updated.
• Maintaining the SIEM data feed infrastructure to ensure the timely delivery of security logs into the SIEM without loss of data fidelity.
• Managing the technical relationship with services and customers during the deployment and updating of data feeds into the SIEM.
• Managing and developing the SIEM configuration and the SIEM’s interfacing with other SOC tooling.
• Working closely with the Cyber Monitoring teams to build cyber detection capability and improve the automation of security monitoring.
• Identifying and delivering continuous improvements to enrich, refine and optimise SIEM capabilities.
• Investigating, troubleshooting and resolving CSOC tooling service incidents.
• Collaborating and conducting knowledge transfer with architects, engineers and subject matter experts.
• Implementing organisational standards for design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance and documentation.
• Providing clear and accurate SIEM status reporting for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentoring and coaching junior staff within the Cyber Security Operations Centre.