Hiring: Chief Information Security Officer Company: DLA Piper Location: Washington DC-Baltimore Area Job Posted Time: 2026-09-15 14:52:53 Target Skills & Keywords : AI, Change Management, Encryption, Risk Management About the job Experience: •15+ years’ progressive information security, cybersecurity, technology risk, privacy, compliance, or enterprise risk leadership experience, including significant executive-level responsibility for a complex, highly regulated, client-facing organization. •Communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with clients, lawyers, business professionals, and external audiences. •Produce high-quality work and respond to correspondence in an efficient, timely, and professional manner. •Meet deadlines, manage competing priorities, and commit to meeting high standards. •Comply with firm policies and procedures. Required Skills: •Sets and executes the enterprise information security strategy for DLA Piper, aligning cyber risk management with firm strategy, client obligations, professional responsibility requirements, regulatory expectations, and operational resilience objectives. •Leads the firm’s Information Security Management System and security governance framework, including policy development, risk assessment, control monitoring, executive reporting, audit readiness, certification support, and continuous improvement. •Provides objective cyber risk advice to firm leadership and governance bodies, translating complex technical risk into clear business, legal, reputational, operational, and client-impact terms that enable timely and informed decision-making. •Oversees enterprise cyber risk identification, assessment, treatment, acceptance, and reporting, including vulnerabilities, threat intelligence, identity and access risk, cloud and infrastructure security, application security, data loss prevention, endpoint protection, email security, ransomware preparedness, and business continuity dependencies. •Leads security oversight of client and firm confidential information, including data classification, access controls, encryption, retention, secure disposal, cross-border data considerations, ethical walls, client outside counsel guidelines, and matter-specific security obligations. •Directs third-party and supplier security risk management in partnership with Procurement, Information Technology, Information Governance, and business owners, ensuring vendors that access firm or client data are assessed, monitored, and held to appropriate security, privacy, contractual, and operational standards. •Guides security review and risk oversight for emerging technologies, cloud services, legal technology, artificial intelligence, automation, analytics, and internally developed tools, ensuring innovation is deployed responsibly and in compliance with firm policies, client requirements, and applicable legal and ethical obligations. •Builds, develops, and leads a high-performing information security organization with the expertise, credibility, accountability, and service orientation required to support a complex, global, partner led professional services environment. Qualifications: •Bachelor’s Degree in Information Security, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Risk Management, Law, or a related field; equivalent senior leadership experience may be considered, where appropriate. •Master’s Degree in MBA, M.S. in Cybersecurity/Information Security, J.D., or other relevant advanced degree preferred. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!