Insider Threat Insights Expert

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection. 

Job Description

The Insider Threat Insights Expert plays a key role in advancing the insider threat program through risk analytics, investigative governance, and operational quality assurance. This role partners closely with second-line risk, compliance, privacy, legal, and cybersecurity stakeholders to develop risk models, establish governance frameworks, and strengthen oversight of insider threat detection and investigation activities.

This position works across investigative, detection, and risk teams to improve risk identification, prioritization, and decision-making while ensuring investigations are conducted consistently, defensibly, and in alignment with enterprise standards. The consultant helps translate operational and business risks into measurable indicators, governance processes, and quality controls that support effective risk management and program maturity.

The role requires strong analytical and critical thinking skills combined with a practical understanding of investigative operations, risk management, and governance practices. Success requires balancing operational effectiveness with regulatory, compliance, audit, and enterprise risk management expectations.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain insider threat risk models, scoring methodologies, and risk indicators used to identify, prioritize, and escalate potential insider risk.

• Partner with second-line risk, compliance, privacy, legal, and cybersecurity functions to align insider threat activities with enterprise risk management and governance frameworks.

• Establish and maintain investigative governance standards, including intake criteria, prioritization methodologies, escalation pathways, and documentation requirements.

• Conduct quality assurance reviews of investigations to promote consistency, defensibility, adherence to standards, and continuous improvement of investigative practices.

• Develop metrics and reporting that measure investigative effectiveness, case quality, program maturity, and emerging insider risk trends.

Key Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in insider threat, cybersecurity, fraud, investigations, compliance, risk management, or related analytical disciplines.

• Experience developing risk models, scoring methodologies, risk indicators, or analytical frameworks used to identify and prioritize risk.

• Experience supporting governance, quality assurance, audit, compliance, or operational oversight functions within a risk-focused environment.

• Experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders, including Risk, Compliance, Privacy, Legal, HR, and Security teams, to implement risk-based processes and controls.

• Exposure to insider threat, cybersecurity, fraud, employee misconduct, investigations, or enterprise risk management programs preferred.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job does not have supervisory duties.

Skills

Cyber Incident Response, Cyber Threat Hunting, IT Security Architecture, Penetration Testing, Technical Leadership

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is $120,000 - 190,000 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

 

Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger – a winning team making a meaningful impact.

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