Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst

With 1,000 intelligence professionals, over $300M in sales, and serving over 1,800 clients worldwide, Recorded Future is the world’s most advanced, and largest, intelligence company!

Job Description: Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst (APT Trends)

This Role: Recorded Future is looking for an analyst to assist in producing consistently high quality cyber threat intelligence to clients with a particular focus on the activity, trends, and motivations of nation-state-aligned cyber threat actors (referred to hereafter as “APT groups”). The analyst will be primarily responsible for responding to ad hoc intelligence requests regarding the landscape of APT activity. Writing either ad hoc or recurring reports about this topic area will require the ability to work with or automate relevant datasets. Outside of reporting specifically on APT trends, the analyst may be asked to contribute insights about APT activity to intelligence with more general requirements.

Responsibilities to include: 

• Produce and review finished intelligence reports that address clients’ priority intelligence requirements related to activity from APT groups, particularly originating from the “Big 4” countries of Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran
• Engage with clients across report lifecycle: Initial scoping, finished intelligence delivery, and follow-up review / support
• Develop novel, automated, or simpler processes for research and analysis
• Work on projects across multiple research teams with sometimes tight deadlines

 

Required Skills / Experience:

• 5+ years experience as a threat intelligence analyst or in similar position
• BA/BS or MA/MS degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
• Demonstrable experience conducting technical threat analysis and research
• In-depth understanding of TCP/IP and other networking protocols and network traffic analysis techniques
• Detailed understanding of at least one nation-state APT group – past activities, TTPs, motivations, etc.
• Fluency in common CTI research and data analysis platforms/tools such as ELK Stack (ElasticSearch, Kibana), Maltego, Shodan, DomainTools, or other similar tools/datasets
• Managing client expectations based on pre-established scope of work and delivery timeframe
• Ability to demonstrate  strong writing ability, to be assessed via a writing sample
• Practical experience using common threat intelligence analysis models such as MITRE ATT&CK, the Diamond Model, and the Cyber Kill Chain to incorporate into client reports

Highly Desirable Skills / Experience:

• Working knowledge of at least one language other than English, with relevance preferred for Russian, Chinese, Korean, and/or Farsi
• Experience working with clients to produce intelligence requirements, or reports / research in line with such requirements
• Demonstrable experience of conducting cyber threat investigations

Why should you join Recorded Future?
Recorded Future employees (or “Futurists”), represent over 40 nationalities and embody our core values of having high standards, practicing inclusion, and acting ethically. Our dedication to empowering clients with intelligence to disrupt adversaries has earned us a 4.8-star user rating from Gartner and more than 45 of the Fortune 100 companies as clients.

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