Insider Risk Specialist, Insider Threat Program

Insider Risk Specialist

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.

When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That's why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

Like many major corporations, GEICO is actively addressing industry-wide challenges in mitigating insider risks. These challenges offer a chance to improve prevention, detection, assessment, and mitigation of threats from malicious insiders, ultimately enhancing customer trust and boosting resilience across digital platforms with advanced protections. GEICO is reinforcing its Insider Threat program by adopting a unified, proactive strategy, safeguarding information, systems, and mission environments through integrated security measures.

Responsibilities We are seeking an Insider Risk Specialist to support the continued development of our Insider Threat Program. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical expertise in detection, hunting, and investigation, as well as a keen understanding of risk mitigation within the cyber security realm. This role is both technical and investigative, requiring proven analytical skills and the capability to contribute to the ongoing evolution of program operations.

Responsibilities include:

• Apply insider risk mitigation strategies.
• Lead complex, sensitive insider threat investigations from signal to evidence, timeline, interviews, documentation, and team handoff.
• Design and execute proactive threat hunts and convert findings into actionable investigations and detections.
• Maintain and improve the insider threat program by identifying gaps, metrics, and investment opportunities.
• Assist with risk assessments for crown jewel analysis, sensitive roles, and high-risk activity.
• Foster cross-functional alignment by building relationships throughout GEICO.

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years' experience in cybersecurity, incident response, intelligence, insider threat, or counterintelligence.
• Familiarity with procedures and signs of malicious insider activity (fraud, theft, sabotage, espionage).
• Ability to develop new processes or capabilities as scaling needs grow.
• Proven success implementing strategies at scale.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for executive audiences.

• Strong relationship-building skills with internal, external, and industry peers.
• Use advanced OSINT techniques to find information from public sources, social media, online activity, commercial data, and specialized tools.
• Create organized, timely reports—such as investigative findings, analytical reviews, incident summaries, and threat analyses—that are suitable for both technical and general readers.

• Skilled in using Threat Hunting tools, with hands-on experience analyzing machine and user activity logs.
• Familiar with querying data sets or working with SIEM platforms.
• Capable of interpreting activity logs generated by machines and users.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in establishing and advancing a formal Insider Threat Program (InTP), encompassing the development of playbooks, detection frameworks, and cross-functional governance models within a corporate or government context.
• Ability to leverage automation toolsets to enhance intelligence gathering and manual tasks, utilizing scripting languages such as Python.
• Proven track record in identifying and investigating insider threats in a cloud-based software or platform organization, with comprehensive knowledge of data access patterns, privileged user risks, and intellectual property theft vectors unique to SaaS and PaaS environments.

Annual Salary: $75,000.00 - $160,000.00

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate's work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life's twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we're constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We're an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers' expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you'll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people's lives.

Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind. You'll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family's overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.