Insider Threat Detection Consultant

About the role

The Insider Threat Detection Consultant plays a key role in designing and scaling insider threat detection capabilities by translating business processes, user behavior, and existing control environments into actionable, data-driven insights. This role focuses on working across business units and risk functions to understand how the organization operates and where insider risk may exist. This position partners closely with business stakeholders, risk partners, and technical teams to identify control gaps, behavioral patterns, and operational risks.

Responsibilities

• Work across business units, HR, Legal, Cybersecurity, and risk partners to understand key processes, user behaviors, and existing control environments
• Translate business workflows, operational risks, and control gaps into scalable insider threat detection signals and monitoring use cases
• Analyze user activity, system logs, and behavioral data to identify anomalies and potential insider risk indicators
• Incorporate domain knowledge (e.g., insurance operations, financial risk, fraud, or cybersecurity) into detection design to improve signal relevance and accuracy
• Partner with detection, investigation, and engineering teams to ensure alignment between detection logic and real-world operational risk
• Evaluate effectiveness of existing controls and monitoring capabilities; recommend enhancements to improve detection coverage and reduce gaps
• Contribute to ongoing refinement of detection methodologies by incorporating investigative feedback, emerging risks, and evolving business processes
• Document detection logic, methodologies, and assumptions to support transparency and consistency

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in cybersecurity, insider threat, fraud, risk analytics, or detection engineering
• Experience working with security tools such as SIEM, UEBA, DLP, EDR, or identity/access monitoring platforms
• Exposure to insurance, financial services, fraud, or regulatory environments is preferred

Skills

• Analytical Thinking
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Cybersecurity Risk Assessment
• Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
• Financial Services
• Fraud Detection
• Insider Threat Mitigation
• Insurance Operations
• IT Security Operations
• Operational Risks
• Penetration Testing
• Risk Analytics
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• Security Access Control
• Security Monitoring
• Security Tools
• SIEM Tools
• Stakeholder Partnerships
• Threat Assessment

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is $80,000 – 190,000 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.