Strategic Threat Intelligence Analyst

Location: Newbury

Role Purpose:

To reduce Vodafone’s cyber risk exposure by collecting, analysing and disseminating cyber intelligence to proactively defend against threats.

The Cyber Intelligence Analyst works at the heart of Vodafone’s Global Cyber Defence organisation in the Cyber Intelligence & Threat Response team. Cyber Defence’s purpose is to operationally reduce the risk, and impact, of global cyber threats to Vodafone customers to enable Vodafone to deliver on its brand promise of confident, safe, and secure communications.

Cyber Intelligence & Threat Response provide timely, relevant and accurate tactical and strategic threat intelligence to all Vodafone entities. The team analyse information from external and internal sources to identify the actions required to address threats before they impact Vodafone, and provide guidance to incident response teams.

With us you will:

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  Collect intelligence and assess the threat posed by external developments, produce proactive intelligence reports and develop response plans.
• Reduce the impact of cyber incidents by researching associated actors, IoCs and TTPs and advising incident response teams.
• Investigate alerts related to suspicious websites and social media accounts, data leaks and threat actor activity. Take action to mitigate threats identified.
• Produce daily open-source threat intelligence updates and track subsequent team actions.
• Triage requests, queries, intelligence submissions, alerts and other communications received by the team and ensure appropriate action is taken.
• Research threats, Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) and threat actor TTPs to support Threat Hunting, Signature Development and Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) process. Ability to process and analyse large datasets, and identify trending

Apply if you have:

Must have:

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  Genuine interest in technology and cyber security, particularly cyber threat intelligence.
• Excellent research, analysis and critical thinking skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to convey a complex message in a simple way.
• Inquisitive, agile, adaptable, able to quickly learn new skills.
• Organised, thorough and methodical, attentive to detail.
• Integrity, honesty and ownership of personal responsibility.
• Able to manage a varied workload with competing priorities.

Preferred:

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  Cyber Security, Computer Science, Science and/or Technology qualifications;
• Demonstrable experience in critical thinking and data or logical analysis.
• Knowledge of;

• Cyber threat concepts e.g. cyber kill chain, attack methods, threat actors.
• Risk management, control portfolios, cyber security defences, incident response handling.
• Open source research and data collection.
• Computer systems, Windows/Linux OS, and/or IP Networking.

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