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Role Overview:
Could you be our next Vice President, Cyber Threat, Offensive Security & Incident Response ? Globe Life is looking for a Vice President, Cyber Threat, Offensive Security & Incident Response to join the team!
In this role, you will be responsible for leading Globe Life’s enterprise cyber threat intelligence, offensive security, incident response, and continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) programs. As a member of the Chief Information Security Officer’s (CISO) leadership team, you will set the strategic vision for identifying and reducing cyber threats, direct the Company’s response to significant security incidents, and strengthen enterprise resilience. You will lead specialized cybersecurity teams, collaborate with executive leadership, and drive measurable improvements in threat detection, security control effectiveness, and organizational risk reduction.
This is a hybrid position located in McKinney, TX (WFH Monday & Friday, In Office Tuesday-Thursday).
What You Will Do:
Strategy, Governance, and Enterprise Accountability
Establish the strategic vision and a three-to-five-year operating model and investment roadmap for threat intelligence, offensive security, incident response, and exposure management, aligned with the CISO’s enterprise security strategy, risk appetite, and business priorities.
Hold enterprise-wide accountability for cybersecurity readiness and resilience outcomes, defining performance metrics for detection and containment, remediation of validated exposures within agreed timelines, detection coverage of priority threats, and control validation results, with targets established and reported to the CISO and executive leadership.
Own the policies, standards, and governance forums for incident response, offensive testing, and exposure management, helping shape enterprise security policies and risk appetite related to cyber threats and exposure risk.
Serve as a member of the CISO’s leadership team and the CISO’s delegate for cyber crisis matters when required.
Anticipate emerging threats and technological developments, including artificial intelligence (AI), and proactively adjust security strategies, capabilities, and investments.
Offensive Security
Define and lead a multi-year offensive security strategy and annual testing roadmap aligned with business priorities, enterprise risk appetite, and regulatory expectations, ensuring appropriate coverage of the Company’s most critical business services.
Direct red team operations, purple team exercises, penetration testing, and adversary emulation across applications, infrastructure, cloud environments, identities, and third-party connections, using MITRE ATT&CK to guide testing and evaluate security effectiveness.
Establish the governance for offensive security operations, including testing scope, rules of engagement, safety controls, success metrics, and approval processes for high-risk activities such as assumed breach and social engineering campaigns, in coordination with Legal, Privacy, and affected business owners.
Build and lead enterprise AI security testing capabilities, including red teaming of AI systems, large language model (LLM)-enabled applications, AI agents, and third-party AI services, covering prompt injection, data leakage, model abuse, insecure agent permissions, and supply-chain risks aligned with frameworks such as OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications and MITRE ATLAS.
Partner with technology, data, and governance leaders to establish security testing requirements before AI capabilities reach production.
Establish safeguards for the safe and responsible…