Tactical Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst (level 1)

Reports To: Tactical Intelligence Team Lead

UK applicants only, no sponsorships

Summary

The primary role of the Tactical Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) Analyst is to support the production of accurate, high quality and timely intelligence products. This will include support to management, peers and members of staff and clients, both in-house and clients.

Tactical CTI Analysts will:

• Create Open Source summaries concerning cyber threat incidents.
• Create and update threat actor profiles detailing salient information about cyber threat actors.
• Assist in the production of strategic reporting concerning technical themes of interest (malware, IOCs, actor TTPs/campaigns and other developments which have the potential to impact the cyber threat landscape).
• Respond to Requests for Intelligence (RFI's) from clients.
• Contribute to other tasks, including (but not limited to) marketing, client engagement, relationship management, business administration and attending industry events) as requested.

The Tactical CTI Analyst is expected to perform and achieve consistently against defined targets as set by management, primarily measured against client satisfaction, quality of analysis, quality of product creation, utilization rates, regulatory and legal compliance and the maintaining of team ethos.

The Tactical CTI Analyst will be office based, with an expectation of weekly visits to the UK London office and other offices and an ability to work from home. Analysts may be requested to support work in other parts of world (within reason).

Qualities and Competencies

As a Tactical CTI Analyst it is vital that you maintain the standards and culture of the company and demonstrate;

• High standards, integrity, confidentiality and reliability

• Client centric approach and consultative nature

• Effective oral and written communications

• Initiative and tenacity

• Base understanding of clients’ business, security drivers and relevant regulations

Roles and Responsibilities

• Motivated self-starter with demonstrable interest in an intelligence/research career

• Knowledge of the cyber threat landscape from a technical perspective, work experience is not essential but a genuine interest is

• Familiarity with common threat actors, types of malware and TTPs

• An interest in vulnerabilities

• A key skill; this could be scripting, tracking threat actor activity or vulnerability exploitation/discovery

• Ability to write clearly, comfortable delivering a wide variety of products from short and snappy to larger white papers

• Contribute to the continuous development, optimisation, delivery and maintenance of the cyber intelligence services portfolio

• Ability to work as part of a larger team

• Support the gaining and maintaining of relevant industry compliance standards

• Continuous skills development Supporting Sales, Marketing and Partner Management related activity

• Participate in and attend meetings and presentations with clients, prospective clients and partners

• Support client development

• Manage client expectations

• Article writing

• Attend marketing events