Director, Cyber Defense

Molex is seeking a Director of Cyber Defense to define, lead, and continuously improve our global cyber defense strategy, capabilities, and operations. Reporting to the Business Information Security Officer, this leader will protect enterprise assets, business services, intellectual property, sensitive information, and critical operational environments across corporate IT, cloud, applications, manufacturing, operational technology, and connected business ecosystems.

This role will build a proactive, intelligence-driven, risk-based organization that reduces exploitable exposure, detects and contains threats rapidly, strengthens resilience, and enables business growth, innovation, and operational continuity.

The Molex Cybersecurity team plays a pivotal role in safeguarding the organization’s complex global enterprise, product and manufacturing ecosystem. In an environment governed by a myriad of regulatory requirements and industry standards, the team partners with global Digital and business teams to proactively develop and operate a robust cybersecurity program designed to fortify the company’s overall security posture.

Molex brings together innovation and technology to deliver electronic solutions to customers worldwide. With a presence in more than 40 countries, Molex offers a full suite of solutions and services for many markets, including data communications, consumer electronics, industrial, automotive, commercial vehicle, aerospace & defense, and medical.

• In collaboration with the Koch & Molex Cyber teams, define and execute the global cyber defense strategy, operating model, roadmap, investments, and performance measures.
• Direct vulnerability management and CTEM to identify, prioritize, validate, and reduce exploitable vulnerabilities and material attack paths.
• Own integrated application, endpoint, network, email, identity, cloud, infrastructure, and OT defense capabilities across the enterprise.
• Own enterprise application security across internally developed applications, commercial software, APIs, cloud-native workloads, and business-critical platforms.
• In close collaboration with Koch cyber, define and refine capabilities of the global Koch SOC to address the evolving needs of Molex.  
• Lead major cybersecurity incident readiness and response, including tabletop exercises, containment, recovery, communications, and lessons learned.
• Partner with Koch technology, Molex Digital, engineering, manufacturing, product, legal, compliance, risk, and business leaders to address enterprise and market-specific requirements.
• Drive threat-informed, risk-based investments using business criticality, exploitability, threat intelligence, exposure, and potential impact.
• Develop talent and improve resilience, automation, operational effectiveness, and cost efficiency.

• 10 or more years of progressive experience in cyber security in global organizations.
• Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Progressive cybersecurity experience with substantial leadership accountability for enterprise cyber defense, incident response, vulnerability management, or related functions.
• Experience leading global or geographically distributed cybersecurity teams in a complex multinational organization.
• Experience developing and executing enterprise cybersecurity strategies, operating models, budgets, technology roadmaps, and measurable improvement programs.
• Experience leading major cyber incident response and communicating material cyber risk to executive leadership.
• Experience partnering across infrastructure, application engineering, cloud, manufacturing, OT, product development, and business functions.
• Ability to travel 10-20% domestically and internationally. 

• CISSP, CISM, GIAC, or equivalent professional certification.
• Experience establishing or transforming a global SOC, incident response capability, threat hunting program, CTEM program, or vulnerability management function, and driving related automation.
• Experience with industrial cybersecurity at scale, driving vulnerability detection, threat analysis and response in large scale, geographically diverse manufacturing operations with heavy reliance on ICS.
• Experience supporting regulated, industrial, manufacturing, engineering-intensive, or safety-critical businesses.