Insider Threat & Critical Asset Protection Consultant

MassMutual • Boston, MA

21h • Remote

About The Position

MassMutual is advancing an enterprise Insider Threat program focused on identifying and managing human-driven cyber risk. The Insider Threat Consultant will help develop the asset intelligence, monitoring strategies, detection capabilities, and investigative processes needed to identify and manage insider-driven risk. The role combines technical expertise, critical asset analysis, behavioral risk assessment, and investigative discipline to understand how people interact with sensitive assets and identify activity patterns that may indicate elevated risk.

The consultant will partner with cybersecurity operations, detection engineering, HR, Legal, Privacy, and business stakeholders to align monitoring and investigative capabilities with asset sensitivity and business impact. A particular focus is critical asset protection: identifying the organization’s most valuable assets, where they reside, who can access them, and how they support critical business processes. This is an experienced practitioner role spanning technical, analytical, and investigative work while helping build and mature an enterprise-scale insider threat program.

The Insider Threat team is a specialized cybersecurity function responsible for understanding and managing risks trusted individuals may pose to MassMutual’s critical assets, systems, information, and operations. It works across critical asset protection, identity and access management, behavioral analytics, cyber defense, investigations, and workforce risk, partnering with Cyber Operations, Detection Engineering, Human Resources, Legal, Privacy, Compliance, Fraud Operations, and business stakeholders.

The position is listed as remote in Massachusetts. Candidates residing within 50 miles of a MassMutual office are expected to work a hybrid schedule of three days per week in the office. The salary range is $137,800–$180,800. MassMutual also describes incentive and bonus opportunities as part of total compensation.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience in cybersecurity, insider threat, investigations, intelligence analysis, data protection, enterprise architecture, or related disciplines.
• At least 2 years of experience working cross-functionally with security, HR, Legal, Privacy, business, or investigative stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting or building an Insider Threat Program.
• Experience supporting Critical Asset Protection, Information Protection, Data Protection, or Human Risk Management initiatives.
• At least 2 years of experience conducting critical asset identification, business impact analysis, operational dependency analysis, or business process mapping.
• Experience performing business process analysis, system dependency mapping, technology assessments, or enterprise architecture reviews.
• Experience building or supporting Crown Jewel Analysis, Cyber Risk, or Cyber Resilience programs.
• Ability to translate technical environments into meaningful business risk and operational impact.
• Experience conducting cyber, digital, fraud, employee misconduct, or insider threat investigations.
• Experience analyzing logs, endpoint telemetry, identity activity, access patterns, and behavioral signals.
• Hands-on experience contributing to detection use cases, monitoring strategies, investigative workflows, or security content development.
• Experience identifying, classifying, mapping, or protecting sensitive information or critical assets.
• Strong understanding of identity and access management concepts, privileged access, trust relationships, and access governance.
• Experience with SIEM, EDR, UEBA, DLP, insider risk management, identity security, and security analytics platforms.
• Experience developing, tuning, or validating detection logic across endpoint, identity, network, and data protection technologies.
• Experience analyzing user behavior and identifying anomalous or high-risk activity through correlation of multiple data sources.
• Familiarity with deception technologies, cyber deception strategies, or adversary engagement techniques.
• Experience supporting highly regulated environments such as financial services.
• Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC, CDLP, GCFA, GCIH, or equivalent.
• Degree in cybersecurity, intelligence studies, psychology, criminal justice, information systems, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Identify and prioritize critical assets requiring enhanced monitoring and protection.
• Analyze how critical assets are accessed, used, and shared across the enterprise.
• Map relationships between identities, access privileges, business processes, and critical assets.
• Determine where critical assets reside across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and third-party technology environments.
• Map business processes, applications, and operational dependencies that support critical assets.
• Identify exposure pathways, concentration risks, and control gaps associated with critical assets.
• Define protection requirements aligned to asset criticality and business impact.
• Analyze behavioral and technical indicators associated with insider risk.
• Identify patterns of activity that may indicate misuse or mishandling of critical assets.
• Conduct and support complex insider threat investigations.
• Correlate identity, access, asset, and behavioral signals across multiple data sources.
• Monitor and analyze deception environments and adversary interaction signals.
• Partner with detection engineering and security operations to develop and refine insider threat detection logic.
• Contribute to tuning enterprise security tooling to improve identification of insider-driven risk.
• Support development of early-warning frameworks and proactive risk identification.
• Produce clear, defensible analytical findings and case documentation.
• Support executive reporting and enterprise risk visibility.

Benefits

• MassMutual describes industry-leading pay and benefits and refers applicants to its Total Rewards at a Glance for details.
• Incentive and bonus opportunities are offered as part of total compensation.
• Access to learning, development, and internal networks that support continuous growth and skill-building.
• Employee-led communities and forums that foster connection, learning, and inclusion.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed