DIRECTOR-DNS ABUSE MITIGATION

Company: VeriSign
Location: Reston
Posted on: September 12, 2020

Job Description:

Build your career with the company that is defining the Internet

Important Work Needs The Right People Managing the Internet infrastructure for .com and .net is no small feat, and Verisign has done the job for more than 20 years with 100 percent uptime and availability. We know that what we do is important. And, our employees are too. It’s our team of talented and dedicated people who make it happen every day, and are recognized for doing so.

Job Description

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Verisign is a trusted steward of critical Internetinfrastructure services, providing routing support for more than 100 milliondomain names ending with .com, .net, .tv, .name, .cc, .edu and .jobs—up to 50billion DNS queries a day.Bring yourskills and talents to the team that provides the operational support reliedupon by billions of consumers.

Verisign islooking for a seasoned Director of Domain Name System (DNS) Abuse Mitigation to coordinate and oversee deliverables for our DNS abuse prevention andmitigation initiatives across Verisign. This position will have a leadershiprole with new approaches and systemic improvements in prevention, detection,threat intelligence, mitigation, compliance, and enforcement of Verisign’s DNSabuse prevention and mitigation efforts. Candidates should have experience withDNS; data analytics; creating and maintaining programs and partnerships toadvance cybersecurity; developing, maturing, and enforcing abuse prevention andmitigation-related practices, agreements, and related initiatives. Thecandidate should have excellent communication skills and share our vision of enablingthe world to connect online with reliability and confidence, anytime, anywhere.

Responsibilities :

Lead and work with internal cross-functional teams and suppliers, as well as create and maintain external partnerships, collaborations, and alliances to advance the organization’s objectives

Develop and execute strategies, and build partnerships and alliances, that help prevent and / or mitigate DNS abuse and helps improve the safety and security of the global DNS

Manage special enforcement and mitigation projects to take corrective action, including initiatives to achieve high volume abuse mitigation objectives.

Use data-driven methods to identify, analyze and engage in DNS security-related initiative

Oversee the design and delivery of reports and insights that analyze operational metrics and ensure accuracy of data and reports.

Coordinate Verisign’s DNS security threat enforcement, management and infrastructure positions in public presentations, briefing papers and other materials.

Qualifications

Requirements:

· 15 + years oftechnical experience in DNS systems, Information Security, and/or Cryptography

· 7+ years of experience improving internet safety and fighting abuse

· 7 +years ofexperience engaging or participating in industry forums or groups

· Experience workingwithin the multi-stakeholder internet governance community

· Experiencefostering relationships and knowledge of law enforcement community globally

· Experience developing and executing new strategies and buildingpartnerships and alliances that help stop abuse of platforms, services andusers worldwide

· Experience improving the safety and security of the global DNS

· Experience using data to identify, analyze and engage in DNS security-related initiatives, and coordinationof data gathering and research initiatives

· Experience with the domain name registration pipeline, includingrelated security requirements and protocols, and domain name acquisition, usageand protection

· Experience with online abuse mitigation and IP protectionat-scale, including enforcement involving domains

· Experience analyzing and communicating context and relevance tolarge amounts of abuse and enforcement data

Job Type : Regular

Primary Location : United States-Washington D.C. Metro-Virginia-Reston

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