Cybersecurity jobs available right now: October 20, 2026 - Help Net Security

What happened

As an Application Security Architect, you will review architecture, design, and code to identify security gaps and vulnerabilities.

You will work with developers, product managers, and security teams to resolve risks, improve application security tools and processes, and support incident response in Riskified’s environment.

As a CISO, you will lead United Utilities’ cyber, information, and physical security strategy across IT, OT, and physical environments.

What changed

You will also validate recovery capabilities, assess release readiness, report risks to leadership, and guide engineering teams on secure delivery.

You will also build client relationships, develop new service offerings, and represent Accenture Cybersecurity in proposals and leadership forums.

As a Cybersecurity Specialist, you will work with the MSSP to investigate and respond to security incidents, coordinate recovery, and report findings to senior management.

Who is affected

You will also develop security teams, strengthen organisational resilience, and manage relationships with regulators, government agencies, and industry bodies.

As a Cybersecurity Director, you will advise client executives on aligning security with business goals, regulatory requirements, and operational resilience.

Why it matters

As a Cloud Security Engineer, you will maintain security standards across Azure and on-premises environments, enforce access controls, and implement automated security policies.

You will help manage identity and access, endpoint and network security, and vulnerability remediation.

Technical details

You will maintain security infrastructure, manage vulnerability scanning and remediation, and develop workflows and automation to improve response.

You will monitor vulnerabilities, update systems, implement preventive measures, and test new security tools.

You will help secure critical infrastructure through hands-on work with antivirus, SIEM, network flow monitoring, penetration testing, and privileged access management services, and report on security performance.

Response

You will monitor security posture, tune alerts, coordinate remediation, and support incident investigations.

You will also coordinate with vendors, support risk reviews and compliance activities, deliver security awareness training, and improve documentation and automation.

What security teams should do

As a Cyber Security Specialist, you will investigate threats, assess alerts, and respond to incidents independently and with the security team.

You will also support users and IT colleagues, recommend policy improvements, and maintain documentation aligned with the Information Security Policy and NIS2 requirements.

What remains unknown

Sweet’s Virtual Patching provides a critical layer of protection against known and unknown exploits, helping teams apply protection immediately while giving them the time they need to remediate vulnerabilities at their source,” said James Berthoty , CEO, Latio Tech.

Attribution

Help Net Security: As an Application Security Architect, you will review architecture, design, and code to identify security gaps and vulnerabilities.

Help Net Security: Cloudflare released a preview of Clairic, an extraction model that pulls typed values out of messy text and images in one pass without generating tokens.

Rapid7: Your Next Insider Threat Won’t be Human: Securing AI Agents From the Outside in Your Next Insider Threat Won’t be Human: Securing AI Agents From the Outside in Why the controls on an AI agent have to live outside of it, and what a security operations team can implement and maintain those controls.

Infosecurity Magazine: This leaves half of these flaws unremediated after three months of their disclosures.

What to watch next

Watch for additional victim details, indicators of compromise and follow-on exploitation reports.

Watch for revised vendor guidance, fixed versions and mitigation updates.