The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has a clear mission - to grow the economy. Our role is to help businesses invest, grow and export to create jobs and opportunities right across the country. We do this in three ways. Firstly, we help to build a strong, competitive business environment, where consumers are protected and companies rewarded for treating their employees properly. Secondly, we open international markets and ensure resilient supply chains. This can be through Free Trade Agreements, trade facilitation and multilateral agreements. Finally, we work in partnership with businesses every day, providing advance, finance and deal-making support to those looking to start up, invest, export and grow. The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) directorate develops and operates tools and services to support us in this mission. The team have been nominated three times in a row for ‘Best Public Sector Employer’ at the Women in Tech awards!
About the role
You will be helping to protect DBT and the wider UK government from cyber threats in a fast paced and exciting role. Reporting to the Principal Cyber Threat and Vulnerability Manager, the Threat and Vulnerability Analyst will work with other members of the SOC and technical teams to execute operational threat and vulnerability management activities and help shape the development of DBT’s TVM program and capabilities. A healthy curiosity mindset will be essential, to actively go out and discover items of potential interest to the team.
About you
You will be an analytical thinker with good understanding of cyber threats and mitigation strategies, an adaptable team-player with a curious mindset, and possess strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with various teams across the organisation.
You will be:
* Supporting scoping and delivery activities of penetration tests, vulnerability assessments, security audits to ensure compliance and mitigation of risks.
* Structured Threat Hunting through proactively identifying and leveraging threat intelligence sources to inform threat and vulnerability mitigation measures.
* Working with key stakeholders to create and drive prioritisation of tracked vulnerabilities and maintaining updated vulnerability trackers to meet common organisational objectives such as policy compliance.
* Reviewing and analysing vulnerability data to identify trends and patterns, whilst improving organisation-wide knowledge and understanding of emerging threats.
* Disseminating and applying DBT’s vulnerability ratings to externally rated vulnerabilities to help the department prioritize remediation.
* Continuously researching and investigating new and emerging vulnerabilities including Zero Day events, and participate in external security communities, sharing findings across the security functions.
* Researching and assessing emerging security threats and vulnerabilities affecting DBT.
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