Threat Intelligence Analyst

 

Recruiter:

HR Genie

Job Ref:

LM_TIA

Date posted:

Thursday, April 28, 2022

Location:

Midrand, South Africa

Salary:

Market related


SUMMARY:
The role extends further by providing trusted advisory security expertise to the customer in making

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Formal Education

         •   BSC degree in relevant field/technology (or equivalent years of experience) 

 

Experience

  • minimum of 4 years of related experience
  • Experience with threat assessment, vulnerability analysis, risk assessment, information gathering, correlating and reporting
  • Experience analysing phishing attacks
  • Significant experience in network intrusion detection
  • Experience creating specific mitigation tactics such as IDS signatures
  • Experience producing reports and briefs on the current threat landscape and associated risks
  • Experience with conducting vulnerability assessments using tools like Tenable or similar
  • Experience on threat intelligence feeds in terms of application and usability
  • Experience monitoring third party security related websites, forums and social media sites for information regarding vulnerabilities and exploits
  • Experience conducting malware analysis - usage of VirusTotal etc
  • Experience using common sandbox technologies to perform dynamic malware analysis
  • Experience replicating reported vulnerabilities in a safe and contained environment to develop proof of concept and/or exploit tools

Technical/Legal Certification

  • CISSP, CEH, GPEN, OSCP or similar security certifications 
  • Certification in IBM Qradar essential

Responsibilities

• Supports the Threat and Advanced Cyber Defence Team with reporting, management, and remediation of threats against customers.

  • Conduct cyber intelligence operations including intelligence collection, tracking threat actors, identifying malicious behaviours and operations.
  • Participates on Incident Response teams as threat/forensic SME (Subject Matter Expert)
  • Perform network traffic and anomaly analysis, as well as indicators of compromise from system logs (Unix & Windows), application/database and firewall logs, IDS/IPS alerts, WAF alerts, endpoint malware alerts.
  • Manages multiple investigation requests through the entire lifecycle of initiation, data collection, analysis, and data production
  • Performs assessments of security profiles and correlates vulnerability data with network topology information to quickly identify risks
  • Recommends and tracks the application of fixes, security patches and security updates on various levels
  • Produces recommendation reports on patches, exploits and vulnerabilities
  • Works with customers, vendors and internal resources for problem resolution and security advisories
  • Standardizes process and procedures and provides continual improvement
  • Develops and maintain comprehensive documentation on incidents and analysis for clients and internal
  • Compile security advisories for internal and external in document format with technical recommendations
  • Use case writing, development and refinement for detection of threats
  • Proactively search for rogue behaviour, malicious attacks & suspicious activity
  • Training of junior analysts
  • Analyse threat feeds to produce daily/weekly/monthly Threat Intelligence brief and regular threat trend reporting

 

Key Competencies

Knowledge

  • Ability to identify and recommend mitigations for vulnerabilities, exploits, patches
  • Understanding of "attacker" methodologies and tactics, including kill-chain analysis
  • Familiarity with Advance Persistent Threat groups and Hacker activity
  • Construct correlation and application rules in a SIEM environment from use cases
  • Knowledge of cyber security methodology and security best practices •            Familiar with Data Privacy laws and the associated security requirements. 

Skills 

  • Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Strong security research skills on hackers, threats and the attack surface at a global and local level
  • Programming skills required: Python, Java, Perl
  • Ability to read network logs and analyse network packet capture data. Wireshark
  • Ability to perform malicious code reverse engineering (advantageous)
  • Ability to utilize common sandbox technology to perfor

 

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