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About Us

Join Nature's Sunshine, a global leader in wellness and herbal health products, and help protect the technology and information that power our mission around the world. We are committed to innovation, security, and operational excellence, ensuring our employees, customers, and partners can confidently engage with our systems and services. If you're passionate about cybersecurity and eager to make a meaningful impact, we invite you to join our growing team.

Position Overview

As a Cybersecurity Analyst I, you'll play a key role in safeguarding Nature's Sunshine's digital assets, systems, and data. You will help monitor, detect, investigate, and respond to cybersecurity threats while supporting security initiatives across our global technology environment.

Working closely with IT teams, business stakeholders, and external partners, you'll contribute to maintaining a strong security posture through proactive monitoring, risk assessment, vulnerability management, incident response, and security awareness efforts.

This position is ideal for someone who enjoys problem-solving, continuous learning, and staying ahead of emerging cybersecurity threats while helping protect a global organization.

What You'll Do

• Monitor Security Operations: Monitor security tools and platforms, including SIEM, endpoint protection, email security, and cloud security solutions to identify and respond to potential threats.
• Investigate & Respond to Incidents: Analyze security alerts, investigate suspicious activity, and participate in incident response efforts to contain, remediate, and document security events.
• Support Vulnerability Management: Assist with vulnerability assessments, security scans, risk analysis, and remediation efforts across infrastructure, applications, and cloud environments.
• Strengthen Security Controls: Help implement, maintain, and improve security policies, standards, procedures, and technical controls that protect company assets and data.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Partner with infrastructure, networking, application, and business teams to support secure technology solutions and promote security best practices.
• Contribute to Security Awareness: Support employee security awareness initiatives, training programs, and phishing simulation efforts that help strengthen the organization's security culture.
• Stay Ahead of Emerging Threats: Research current cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, and industry trends to help improve detection capabilities and security strategies.

What You'll Bring

• Security Knowledge: Understanding of cybersecurity principles including threat detection, incident response, vulnerability management, identity and access management, network security, and cloud security.
• Analytical Thinking: Strong investigative and problem-solving skills with the ability to evaluate security events and determine appropriate actions.
• Communication Skills: Ability to communicate technical security concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborative Mindset: A team-oriented approach and willingness to work across departments to support security objectives.
• Continuous Learning: Passion for cybersecurity and commitment to staying current with evolving threats, technologies, and industry best practices.

Requirements

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 2–5 years of experience in cybersecurity, information security, systems administration, network administration, or a related IT security role.

Technical Experience

• Experience with security monitoring tools, endpoint protection platforms, vulnerability management solutions, and security incident response processes.
• Familiarity with Microsoft 365 security technologies, cloud security concepts, and enterprise security best practices.

Certifications

• Security+, CySA+, GSEC, SSCP, CISSP Associate, or similar cybersecurity certifications preferred.

Flexibility

• Willingness to occasionally participate in after-hours incident response, security investigations, or maintenance activities when needed.

Why Join Us?

• Meaningful Impact: Help protect the systems, data, and technologies that support a global organization dedicated to health and wellness.
• Professional Growth: Expand your cybersecurity expertise through hands-on experience, collaboration, and ongoing learning opportunities.
• Collaborative Environment: Join a supportive team that values innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
• Purpose-Driven Culture: Be part of a company committed to making a positive difference in the lives of customers around the world.

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Nature's Sunshine is dedicated to being a Force of Nature that champions social and environmental wellness. We are focused on building a team of professionals with diverse backgrounds and experiences to become the natural supplement company of the future. By celebrating the individuality and unique perspectives of our workforce, we empower our employees to share the healing power of nature with more people around the world. And through our commitment to sustainable processes, renewable energy usage and waste reduction initiatives, we're devoted to preserving nature and its power for future generations.

We believe we are stronger together, and our ongoing commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging ensures that every employee is treated with fairness and respect. Because doing what's right-in the right way-is how we succeed as a company and a society.