# Information Protection Advisor **Company**: The Cigna Group **Location**: Bloomfield, CT, CT **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: 103,100 - 171,900 USD / yearly **Category**: Security **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://cigna.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/cignacareers/job/Bloomfield-CT/Information-Protection-Advisor_26011773?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_fe9f328d-1fd ## Description The Information Protection Advisor role supports The Cigna Group's federal compliance programs, ensuring systems meet evolving cybersecurity and regulatory requirements. In this role, you will partner with business, technology, cybersecurity, and control teams to maintain accurate, audit-ready security documentation and support compliance initiatives aligned with federal standards. **Responsibilities** - Partner with system owners, control owners, engineering teams, and subject matter experts to validate control implementations, system boundaries, and security documentation. - Track documentation updates, open items, remediation activities, and evidence requirements through completion. - Gather, organize, and maintain control evidence and supporting artifacts in approved repositories. - Support compliance assessments, audits, and certification activities by coordinating documentation, responding to requests, and monitoring deliverables. - Identify documentation gaps, inconsistencies, and potential compliance concerns, escalating issues when appropriate. - Maintain compliance artifacts including POA&Ms, policies, procedures, control mappings, assessment records, and remediation documentation. - Support CMMC readiness efforts through control mapping, evidence collection, gap assessments, issue tracking, and remediation follow-up. - Assist with defining and maintaining compliance scope, system boundaries, inventories, and asset populations supporting federal operations. - Contribute to templates, procedures, and quality reviews that improve consistency, efficiency, and documentation standards across the compliance program. - Communicate project status, risks, and priorities while managing multiple deliverables and deadlines. - Support additional security, regulatory, contractual, and audit-related initiatives as business needs evolve. **Required Qualifications** - 4+ years of relevant experience in information security, IT risk, compliance, audit, cybersecurity, or a related field with a bachelor's degree; or 8+ years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree. - Working knowledge of risk management, compliance, audit, and security control documentation practices. - Experience interpreting NIST requirements and translating them into actionable documentation and compliance activities. - Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines. - Demonstrated attention to detail and commitment to documentation accuracy and quality. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills. - Ability to collaborate effectively with technical teams, business partners, and control owners. - Self-motivated, action-oriented, and capable of working independently while exercising sound judgment. **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience with Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), NIST SP 800-171, NIST SP 800-53, or Department of Defense (DoD) security requirements. - Experience managing POA&Ms, control narratives, evidence mappings, system inventories, diagrams, policies, or procedures. - Knowledge of additional security and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, PCI, SOX, HITRUST, or similar standards. - Experience supporting regulatory assessments, audits, or certification activities. - Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, CCP, or CCA. - Strong analytical, technical writing, and presentation skills. - Proven ability to build effective relationships across business, cybersecurity, and technology teams. The anticipated annual salary for this position is 103,100 - 171,900 USD, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location. **Benefits** - Comprehensive range of benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. - 401(k) with company match. - Tuition reimbursement. - Minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year. - Paid holidays and leaves of absence. ## Skills ### Required - risk management - compliance - audit - security control documentation - NIST requirements - organizational skills - written and verbal communication - collaboration ### Nice to have - CMMC - NIST SP 800-171 - NIST SP 800-53 - DoD security requirements - POA&M management - control narratives - evidence mappings - system inventories - diagrams - policies - procedures - SOC 2 - PCI - SOX - HITRUST - CISSP - CISM - CISA - CCP - CCA --- Source: [Apply at cigna.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://cigna.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/cignacareers/job/Bloomfield-CT/Information-Protection-Advisor_26011773?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)