Associate Director, Cyber Threat Intelligence, APAC

Role purpose

This Sydney based role will focus on delivering written and verbal cyber threat intelligence outputs, as well as driving growth of our CTI and Digital Risks portfolios in the APAC region.
The role requires regularly briefing senior client audiences from a range of geographies and sectors on the strategic threat landscape, digital risks and wider technology developments. It also includes delivering and managing client engagements, such as strategic assessments, threat profiling and responsive engagements.
A successful candidate in this role must integrate into a global team and quickly establish themselves as the lead threat expert for the region, communicating trends to regional and global client-facing colleagues to drive client interaction.

Role tasks and responsibilities

Subject matter expertise
 Demonstrate regional and global CTI and cyber security expertise applicable to private sector organisations across a range of sectors with a clear view of emerging threats and trends relevant to our clients and their technologies.
 Competently deliver briefings to senior audiences across several different sectors and countries in APAC and globally.
 Work across the Digital Risks department and wider Control Risks departments to share regional and global intelligence, enabling client deliverables and engagement with clients and prospects.
 Articulate how regional issues, trends and requirements impact the CTI product set and work with the global team to tailor products to aid sales in the region.
 Demonstrate robust understanding of the geopolitical, technological, economic and social drivers of cyber threats to produce forward-looking intelligence analysis.
 Deliver strong written outputs, PowerPoint presentations and verbal briefings, understanding and articulating threat in a client-specific context tailored to the client stakeholder and the client’s overall maturity.

Intelligence product development
 Proactively collecting and analysing information from all sources to produce actionable intelligence for our bespoke clients.
 Responsible for identifying and obtaining intelligence feeds relevant to the APAC threat and intelligence landscape.
 Provide regional expertise within the global CTI team to aid prioritisation of content coverage and intelligence collection for a subscription-based intelligence platform.

Business development responsibilities
 Responsible for business development in both originating opportunities, contributing to business unit and service line growth targets, and supporting significant opportunities in the region and globally.
 Leading on scoping regional CTI requirements, as well as contributing to scoping and winning global engagements. Able to effectively collaborate with internal teams in Digital Risks and in the wider Control Risks business both in sharing relevant work from CTI-led engagements and in drawing CTI opportunities from wider engagements.
 Work closely with regional threat intelligence (TI) leadership and analysts to ensure the TI product remains cohesive and able to service holistic client security intelligence needs.
 Generate and maintain regionally relevant collaterals and materials that can be shared by Digital Risks and wider Control Risks colleagues to engage clients and drive business development.

Marketing
 Producing marketing materials and public-facing analysis designed to demonstrate CTI capability and subject matter expertise to a public audience.
 Developing collaterals to be shared with clients and prospects, outlining threats to specific geomarkets and sectors while also clearly detailing our CTI capabilities and value add.
 Developing thought leadership tailored to specific high-priority APAC geomarkets.

Requirements

Knowledge and experience

Essential

 Highly motivated and autonomous individual with ability to self-task and develop own research.

 Track record of originating and/or driving growth with intelligence clients, including delivering client engagements end to end, maintaining engagement post-project delivery.

 5+ years’ work experience in a relevant field in private or public sector organisations.

 Demonstrable experience in the field of geopolitics, threat intelligence and/or cyber security through academic or professional engagement.

 Experience briefing or pitching to senior audiences on cyber and intelligence topics.

Preferred

 Practical knowledge and understanding of cyber security concepts and methods.

 Practical experience in the field of intelligence collection, analysis and reviewing.

 Ability to present technical information and analysis to a non-technical audience.

 Demonstrable experience of business development, marketing or winning client work.

 Educated to degree / masters level or several years’ work experience in an intelligence, cyber security or social science field (Terrorism, Politics, International Relations, Intelligence Studies).

 Understanding of both qualitative and quantitative analytical tools and techniques.

 Intelligence analysis (CREST, NIAT, GIAT, DIAM, City and Guilds), CTI (CRTIA, CPTIA) or cyber security (CISSP, CEH, CLASS) qualifications are highly desirable but not essential.

 Languages preferred: Chinese Mandarin, Russian, Farsi, Arabic, Spanish, and/or German.

Qualifications and specialist skills

 The desired candidate may have a background in CTI, intelligence collection or analysis, geopolitical risk analysis.

 Familiarity with the following analysis and collection tools: Maltego, RiskIQ, SOCMINT, OSINT engines, complex Boolean searches, MS Office suite (particularly Word, PowerPoint and Excel), use of secure research network.