The Security Manager is responsible for making sure that ISO SAE 21434 is complied
to in the project. The Security Manager shall lead and monitor the security relevant
activities of the project.
Required skills
Degree: Master’s degree in electrical engineering/computer science/mathematics, or similar degree, or comparable work experience
Solid understanding of security management
Knowledge in project management
Deep understanding of quality criteria and the correlating methods and procedures to achieve and verify them
Technical know-how of embedded systems
Preferred training: (Automotive) Cybersecurity Specialist (CySec) or similar
Knowledge of standards
Experience
2 years of experience in the management of security topics
Experience in managing projects
Experience in managing security weaknesses, vulnerabilities
Responsibility
Creates and maintains the Security Plan
Creates and monitors the completeness of the security package
Creates and maintains the Security Manual
Supports creation and maintaining of the SBOM
Verifies, that the preconditions for the “release for production”, which are part of the release notes, are fulfilled, and the correctness, completeness and consistency of the release notes
Supports reporting of security related project status
Reports security weaknesses, vulnerabilities
Coaches the project team w.r.t all questions related to security
Plans and approves the security audit (to be discussed, currently not in scope)
Plans and approves the formal security reviews
Approval of security analyses
Creates and maintains the security manuals on platform and module level
Checks that every person in his team has sufficient security skills for their role
Authority
Escalation of planning topics to the project manager defined in the security plan
Initiate the publication of a security weakness, vulnerability
Recommend the Release of a SW platform or a module
Refusing the approval of work products as defined in the workflows
Refusing the approval of his team’s role nomination (i.e. requesting that the role will be withdrawn)
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