Threat Intelligence Analyst

The Cyber Intelligence Analyst is a junior role focusing on strategic intelligence by conducting all source intelligence analysis leveraging internal and external threat data to proactively identify threats posed to Citizens.
In this role, you will have a background or familiarization with intelligence analysis, managing the intelligence lifecycle, an understanding of the overall financial sector threat landscape and the acumen and wherewithal to interpret technical threats and risks to technical and non-technical senior leaders.
You will focus on the delivery of strategic intelligence reporting to a range of internal stakeholders including the incident response function, attack surface management teams, insider threat and key senior leaders. In addition, you will contribute to the Threat Hunting and Fraud Intelligence programs. The objective is to drive decision making, mitigation and awareness across the organization through various means and cross pillar collaboration.
 

Responsibilities:

• Supporting teams throughout Citizens’ Security programs and the greater organization by identifying, tracking, monitoring, and reporting on potential risks, issues, and threats to Citizens to accurately depict and mitigate the current and emerging threat landscape.
• Executing processes and procedures to monitor and analyze open source, government, and sharing community sources/feeds to identify relevant threats and vulnerabilities to Citizens’ business operations, information systems, and products while advising senior leaders to foster informed decision making.
• Delivering intelligence products through various mechanisms including written assessments, verbal briefings, and relevant metrics.
• Participating in the continuous improvement of the efficacy of the organization’s Threat Intelligence Platform.
• Responding to intelligence inquiries from law enforcement agencies as required.
   

Qualifications
Required Experience and Skills: 

•  2 years of combined experience in threat intelligence, cyber security, SOC or Military Intelligence
• Working knowledge of the intelligence lifecycle
• Technical capability or knowledge, specifically network and application security
• Experience collecting, analyzing and interpreting data from multiple sources, documenting the results and providing meaningful analytic products.
• Strong ability to effectively communicate (verbal and written) with executives and stakeholders in non-technical terms while accurately encompassing risk, impact, likelihood, containment and remediation activities, and threat actor TTPs
• Understanding of the MITRE ATT&CK Framework
• Knowledge of current and emerging cyber threats and vulnerabilities
• Basic understanding of threat actor methodologies is required.
• Strong interpersonal skills to interact with teams and multiple departments to achieve objectives.
• Strong critical/analytical thought process, problem solving and writing skills
• Ability and confidence to work autonomously to plan and prioritize workload in order to achieve identified objectives
   

Desired Experience and Skills:

• Prior financial services work experience
• Military, Department of Defense (DoD) or Law Enforcement/Government intelligence analysis experience
• Experience with Splunk
• Threat hunting experience.

Preferred Education and certifications:
 

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent work experience
   

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