Threat Landscape Analyst

THREAT LANDSCAPE ANALYST

Basic Function:

This position is responsible for the creation of finished intelligence reports and analyst notes.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Prepare weekly monthly and quarterly client specific finished intelligence reports
  

• Analyze clientspecific data to determine potential threats to a client or client s infrastructure
  

• Summarize findings from clientspecific data to clearly and concisely communicate a level of threat to a client or client s infrastructure
  

• Identify open source information and data relevant to a client s priority intelligence requirements and summarize the information and data for inclusion in a client report
  

• Discover cyber threat events/ stories to be covered in the Weekly Threat Landscape and monitor existing suggestions to track which industries need additional research
  

• Use the Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud to validate information based on what was identified through opensource research; accurately interpret the results and create logical assessments or an outlook of the incident
  

• Conduct research cyber threat events/stories to include open source research as well as research using the Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud and dataset to provide actionable and relevant intelligence to clients to help them better protect themselves against cyber threats
  

• Create Analyst Notes from previously published Weekly Threat Landscape stories
  

• Collaborate with the Data Science team to curate entities that are referenced in reports
  

• Monitor and remain uptodate about recent cyber trends and events
  

Qualifications:

• At least one year of professional experience in cyberrelated research and technical writing
  

• Excellent Englishlanguage skills both in writing and communication
  

• Excellent Englishlanguage grammar skills
  

• Excellent reading comprehension skills
  

• Strong verbal communication in English
  

• Is significantly keen to details
  

• Proficiency with Google Docs and Google Sheets
  

• Has strong analytical skills; can accurately interpret raw data and put that into technical writing
  

• Possesses sufficient or advanced knowledge about cyber threats (malware phishing trojans botnets etc.) and the cyber threat landscape (e.g. a ransomware attack targeted a specific company)
  

• Possess sufficient knowledge about software vulnerabilities (CVEs) and associated threats (zero day exploits malicious exploitation proofofconcept exploit codes)
  

• Possesses sufficient or advanced knowledge about cybersecurity and protecting against cyber threats
  

• Has sufficient knowledge (or is familiar) about the MITRE ATT&CK framework; is able to associate MITRE IDs relevant to a cyber event
  

• Is able to create logical assessments onpoint recommendations and a thorough outlook about a cyber event (e.g. able to identify or describe the so what related to the event)
  

• Familiarity in OSINT research (OpenSource Intelligence)
  

• Is able to thrive in a collaborative environment
  

• Independent and has curious approach to research
  

• Strong discipline with time management
  

• Preferred not a priority BS equivalent in computer science information systems or cyber intelligence
  

• Preferred not a priority experience with generative artificial intelligence
  

• Preferred not a priority familiar with using JIRA
  

• Adaptive open to change
  

• Can handle tight deadlines in terms of report delivery