<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>The big picture: </strong>Axios is a media company dedicated to delivering trustworthy news and information with efficiency, clarity, and Smart Brevity. We are hiring an IT Security Specialist on our IT team to help protect the systems, devices, identities, applications, and workflows that power the company.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Why it matters: </strong>Security at Axios is not simply a matter of deploying tools or responding to vulnerabilities. It means understanding how systems are used, assessing whether they are fit for purpose, and identifying risk created by workflows, permissions, configurations, vendors, and user behavior.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">This role will help de-risk current and future solutions by embedding security into technology decisions from evaluation and procurement through implementation, monitoring, and continuous improvement.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Go deeper: </strong>This role will own key areas of our corporate security environment, including endpoint security, identity and access management, Google Workspace, SaaS security, security monitoring, security awareness, and AI security. We’re looking for an experienced practitioner who understands that, in a modern company, the browser is often the operating system through which people access data, applications, and business workflows.<strong> </strong>In this role, you will:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Own security for Axios’ Mac fleet, including Jamf, compliance, monitoring, alert investigation, malware response, and device remediation.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Own Okta-based identity and access management, including adaptive MFA, authentication, SSO, application assignments, access scopes, and joiner/mover/leaver processes.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Partner with People, Legal and Infrastructure to improve provisioning, offboarding, access removal, archival, legal holds, and lifecycle automation.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Establish and maintain security configurations and risk controls for core services and SaaS applications, including authentication, access, collaboration, email security, data protection, alerting, activity monitoring, vendor and procurement reviews, security questionnaires, evidence gathering, and recommended safeguards.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Treat the browser and SaaS layer as critical security boundaries, evaluating how users access data and applications and where browser-based workflows create risk.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Use logs and activity monitoring across endpoints, browsers, identity systems, Google Workspace, and SaaS applications to investigate suspicious activity and support incident response.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Assess systems, tools, permissions, and workflows for security, operational fit, and long-term supportability.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Help protect high-risk users, including journalists and executives, through appropriate privacy, account-security, and personal-data protections.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Security awareness and AI security</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Own security awareness programs, including human risk, phishing simulations, reporting workflows, completion tracking, and targeted training for higher-risk users.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Design and deliver customized training for different parts of the company, including the newsroom, journalists, business teams, and technical teams, based on their workflows and threat models.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Develop practical AI security policies and guidance, and review AI tools, automations, agents, and internally built solutions for data handling, permissions, authentication, authorization, secrets management, logging, monitoring, human oversight, and operational readiness.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Worthy of your time: </strong>This is an opportunity to shape security inside an AI-enabled media company. You’ll have meaningful ownership and the chance to improve security across our technology environment and the workflows built on top of it.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family