Cybersecurity Consultant

You easily collaborate with managers and ICT specialists at a tactical level. Your focus includes aspects such as securing business processes, raising employee awareness, managing ICT infrastructure and operations, application security, and identity management, from assessment to design. Additionally, you address OT security, both technically and in management terms. As a consultant, you provide advice, oversee implementation, or assess the quality of security setups.

Information security, business continuity management, enterprise risk management, and cyber resilience are part of your daily expertise. You adeptly identify risks in business processes and recommend necessary measures to intervene effectively.

Your main tasks at #Highberg

Our clients value your practical and strong advisory skills. Through project-oriented and results-driven approaches, you help them secure and enhance business processes and ICT reliability by:

• Identifying risks within processes.
• Securing security in ICT architecture.
• Increasing employee awareness.
• Establishing security processes and basic management processes.
• Implementing cyber resilience.
• Ensuring compliance with security guidelines and privacy regulations.
• Assisting in achieving external certifications such as ISO2700x or NEN7510.

Who you are

• You have a passion for cybersecurity and an interest in new developments such as IoT security, Security Operations, and cyber resilience.
• Someone who can quickly grasp a problem and articulate it as simply as possible (both verbally and in writing).
• A sociable individual who enjoys maintaining contact with clients and identifying commercial opportunities.

• A completed HBO (Bachelor’s) or WO (Master’s) degree, and several years of advisory experience.
• Current knowledge of ICT risk management, cybersecurity, and business continuity management.
• Experience in advising on the implementation of standards such as ISO2700x, BIO, Cobit, and the implementation of specific measures such as Identity & Access Management, data encryption, security in management processes, etc.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Dutch.

• A competitive salary and excellent benefits including performance pay, provisions for mobility, pension and leave.
• Sincere attention to personal development including coaching by colleagues, access to and wide range of education and training and a personal development plan with matching investments.
• A place within a challenging and growing organization where taking personal responsibility is valued, you have the autonomy and freedom to perform your work flexibly with short lines of communication with colleagues.
• A pleasant working environment with a pleasant and easily accessible office, focus on performance as a team and not on the individual and numerous social activities such as get-togethers, sports activities and team meetings.

About the culture

We’re a European transformation consultancy that believes real progress starts with people - their ideas, their energy, their courage to change. Founded in the Netherlands, we’re growing across Europe, bringing together diverse teams united by one ambition: to create lasting impact. Together with our clients, we turn ambition into action and change into enduring results. Curiosity drives us forward, collaboration keeps us connected, and our shared commitment ensures that every transformation becomes something that truly lasts. We move. Together. For lasting impact.

As a Cybersecurity consultant at Highberg, you play a crucial role in shaping cybersecurity and ICT risk management for our clients. Typically, you engage at a strategic level with executives from large municipalities, banks, and insurers, discussing the setup of IT security within their organizations.