Strategic Threat Intel Analyst

Strategic Threat Intel Analyst

Requirements

• Former experience as a cyber threat intelligence analyst is necessary reporting on the nation-state or cyber-criminal threats.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities to identify patterns and correlations in threat data.
• Ability to communicate (verbal and written) with executives and other stakeholders in non-technical terms while accurately encompassing risk, impact, likelihood, containment and remediation activities, and threat actor techniques, tactics, and procedures.
• Proficiency in cybersecurity tools and techniques, as well as knowledge of common cyber threats and attack vectors.
• Understanding of current cybersecurity trends, threats, and concepts.
• Familiarity with cyber threat intelligence frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and the Diamond Model.

Responsibilities

• Working in a tactical/strategic role cultivating intelligence sources, analyzing information, creating intelligence, and hunting for exposures or related incidents.
• Researching current and emerging threats, malware analysis, campaign assessment, data collection and analysis.
• Researching threat actors and cultivating and assessing new sources of threat information and intelligence.
• Collecting, assessing, and cataloguing threat indicators and responsibility for adding context to threat indicators to convey urgency, severity, and credibility.
• Risk management.
• Maintaining knowledge of threat landscape by monitoring OSINT and related sources.
• Tracking cyber threat actors and their infrastructure with a view to disrupting their activity.
• Collaborating with appropriate business partners and lines of business to analyze threats.
• Escalating issues to management in a timely manner with appropriate information regarding risk and impact.
• Exercising independent judgment in methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Working with incident response teams to assist with contextualizing the threat and facilitating the identification, mitigation, and containment of cyber-security incidents.
• Drafting well-written analytical assessments and providing briefings to response teams, enterprise counterparts, and senior leadership on key issues.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher-level degree.