It is an exciting time for our Financial Services Cyber and Resilience practice. We’re looking for Senior Consultant to join our ever-expanding team of professionals to help continue contributing to Client engagements.
The opportunity
* Assist with threat intelligence assessments on strategic, operational and tactical level by providing analytical and technical support
* Contribute to threat intelligence products
* Drive the CBEST and TIBER remediation planning for our clients
Your key responsibilities
* Support the analysis of information to help produce targeted threat intelligence assessments, contributing to the overall assessment, working under minimum guidance and seeking guidance where appropriate
* Communicate with the team to gain an understanding of intelligence requirements
* Help to build Threat Intelligence products for the team, such as intelligence templates, SOPs, frameworks and other ways of working
* Assist with due diligence activities to confirm the intelligence findings can be reported to the client with confidence, including confidence rating and cross-source comparison of information
* Provide insights through evidence of digital exposure for clients, including leaked credentials, indicators of compromise and other relevant findings, including recommendations for remediation activities
* Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of other threat intelligence analysts and testers to produce quality intelligence product and testing scenarios
* Work closely with the testing teams to help develop scenarios for intelligence-led red team testing
* Maintain knowledge and training in intelligence practices and engage with the rest of the intelligence community to promote collaboration and intelligence product consistency
* Be part of client engagement teams and advise clients drawing on knowledge and experience, contribute to thought leadership
Skills and attributes for success
* Understanding of threat intelligence (including any relevant qualifications) and related tools and processes, and ability to apply this in production of intelligence products (under supervision)
* Awareness of common cyber threats (threat actors, attack vectors, attack development scenarios) to the modern IT / OT/ IoT environments
* Awareness of the financial services regulatory landscape
* Eagerness to further develop knowledge of relevant security standards
* Awareness of processes and challenges in threat intelligence, security management and governance
* Strong collaboration, communication and analytical skills
To qualify for the role you must have
* Significant experience of contributing to threat intelligence products, either for internal intelligence capability or external client facing intelligence products
* Some experience of one or more core elements such as use of threat intelligence tools, how to find evidence of digital exposure, cross-source validation of results and rating source credibility, critical thinking, intelligence cycle processes
* Experience managing people and their performance
* Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
* Experience owning key project deliverables
Ideally, you’ll also have
* An ability to use work in an innovative environment and to be self-directed
* A strong ability to communicate ideas and solutions in a succinct and accessible way
* An understanding of how to team to reach the right answer