Insider Threat Consultant
US$138,000 – US$181,000 / yr base salary
Posted 14 Jul 2026
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- Expected experience
- 8+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Hybrid
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$138,000 – US$181,000 / yr |
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CertificationsGIAC Certified Incident Handler, Certified Information Systems Security Professional, Certified Information Security Manager
Consultant, Insider Threat
Enterprise Cyber Security
Full Time, Springfield MA (Hybrid)
The Opportunity
MassMutual is advancing an enterprise Insider Threat program focused on identifying and managing human-driven cyber risk. The Insider Threat Consultant will play a key role in developing the asset intelligence, monitoring strategies, detection capabilities, and investigative processes necessary to identify and manage insider-driven risk.
This role combines deep technical expertise, critical asset analysis, behavioral risk assessment, and investigative discipline to understand how people interact with sensitive assets and to identify patterns of activity that may indicate elevated risk. The consultant will partner with cybersecurity operations, detection engineering, HR, Legal, Privacy, and business stakeholders to align monitoring and investigative capabilities with asset sensitivity and business impact.
This position is suited for an experienced practitioner who can operate across technical, analytical, and investigative domains while helping build and mature an enterprise-scale insider threat program.
The Team
The Insider Threat team is a specialized cybersecurity function responsible for understanding and managing the risks that trusted individuals may pose to MassMutual's critical assets, systems, information, and operations.
The team operates at the intersection of critical asset protection, identity and access management, behavioral analytics, cyber defense, investigations, and workforce risk. Team members develop the intelligence, monitoring strategies, detection capabilities, investigative processes, and analytical frameworks necessary to identify and reduce insider-driven risk.
The team partners closely with Cyber Operations, Detection Engineering, Human Resources, Legal, Privacy, Compliance, Fraud Operations, and business stakeholders to ensure insider risk is identified, assessed, and managed in a consistent, defensible, and risk-informed manner.
The Impact
The Insider Threat Consultant will:
- Identify and prioritize critical assets requiring enhanced monitoring and protection.
- Analyze how critical assets are accessed, used, and shared across the enterprise.
- Map relationships between identities, access privileges, business processes, and critical assets.
- Analyze behavioral and technical indicators associated with insider risk.
- Identify patterns of activity that may indicate misuse or mishandling of critical assets.
- Conduct and support complex insider threat investigations.
- Correlate identity, access, asset, and behavioral signals across multiple data sources.
- Monitor and analyze deception environments and adversary interaction signals.