Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst: Cyber, Threat, SOC, Security Clearance

Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst: Cyber, Threat, SOC, Security Clearance

Our Global Enterprise client is looking for a skilled Cyber Security Analyst with 5-6 years of experience within Threat Intelligence to join their team.

Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 55 days
Pay Rate: £487 per hour (PLEASE NOTE: Employer NI is paid for by the client)
Total Daily Earnings: £553 (includes rolled up holiday)
IR35 Status: Inside
Location: Hybrid/Hatfield (some travel to Blackfriars if required but this will be on a rare occasion)

NOTE: Active SC Clearance is highly desirable.

Responsibilities:
Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) Maintenance (20%):

• Take ownership of the threat intelligence platform and related tooling, ensuring its effective utilisation for monitoring and analysing both cyber and geopolitical threats.
• Optimise the platform to enhance the team's capabilities in threat detection and response.
• Continue to develop access to internal data and leverage threat intelligence tooling to maximise intelligence opportunities.

Cyber Threat Analysis & Dissemination (50%):

• Identify intelligence of concern for Computacenter across various sources and tooling and conduct analysis and assessment of such threats and their potential impact to the business.
• Monitor and analyse geopolitical events to identify potential impacts on the organisation's cyber security landscape.
• Using a variety of sources to increase knowledge, corroborate and parallel information. This involves engaging in communities and intelligence sharing initiatives.
• Have confidence in your ability to draw conclusions and provide intelligence led recommendations.
• Own and run regular briefings of Threat Intelligence to the wider security team.
• Respond to intelligence requests from internal teams, using all available sources of intelligence to produce assessments on the threat to support decision-making.
• Ensure clear and concise communication of assessments and complex bits of information for various stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address immediate intelligence needs and contribute to the overall security posture.
• Work closely alongside other Security Operations teams such as SOC
• Develop hypotheses based on threat intelligence to direct joint operations with Cyber Threat technical resources to direct threat hunting? Continue to develop access to internal data and leverage threat intelligence tooling to maximise intelligence opportunities.
• Dark Web Monitoring

Ensuring Threat Intelligence Programme Meets Organisational Aims (15%):

• Collection of Priority Intelligence Requirements from key stakeholders
• Effective tracking of intelligence activities against these PIRs
• Reporting of service quality against KPIs

Incident Response Support (15%):

• Required to work out of hours, when situation dictates, to support Incident Response activities

Technical Skills & Experience:

• 5-6 years of experience within Threat Intelligence.
• Demonstrable experience in analysing and assessing cyber threats, including the ability to identify patterns and trends.
• Proficient in gathering, correlating, and interpreting data from various sources to produce actionable intelligence.
• Experience of giving detailed verbal threat briefings to key stakeholders.
• Experience working with a Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP).
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to influence and persuade stakeholders to enact a more security focused approach.
• Understanding of the intelligence life cycle, from collection through to feedback.
• Experience in producing high-quality intelligence products and documentation for a variety of audiences.
• Familiarity with common cyber threats, threat actors, attack vectors, and vulnerabilities.
• Experience in leveraging open-source intelligence tools and techniques to gather information about threats.
• Knowledge of information assurance standards and frameworks including CIS, NIST, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials/Essentials Plus, GDPR.
• Strong familiarity of threat cyber security frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, Killchain and NIST CSF 2.0

Desirable:

• Recognised information security and/or information technology industry certification.
• Good organisational and time management skills
• Experience of delivering and shaping Threat Modelling programmes

Soft Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal English.
• Good presentation and moderation skills; professional and convincing manner of appearance and expression; clear, targeted communication (verbal and written).
• A strong desire to help others by sharing knowledge, peer reviewing, and contributing to technical and process standards.
• Work well within a team, report issues and risks, take part in team meetings, share ideas and work towards improving our service.
• Excellent communication and Customer facing customer service skills previous experience is essential.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team is essential.

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