Threat Intelligence Consultant

My client are a IT consultancy working with a government body, They are currently recruiting for a Threat Intelligence Consultant with SC Clearance

Location - Hatfield (Once per month)

Duration - 3 months

Pay - £648.99

Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) Maintenance (20%):

• Take ownership of the threat intelligence platform and related tooling, ensuring its effective utilisation for monitoring and analysing both cyber and geopolitical threats.
• Optimise the platform to enhance the team's capabilities in threat detection and response.
• Continue to develop access to internal data and leverage threat intelligence tooling to maximise intelligence opportunities.

Cyber Threat Analysis & Dissemination (50%):

• Identify intelligence of concern for our client across various sources and tooling and conduct analysis and assessment of such threats and their potential impact to the business.
• Monitor and analyse geopolitical events to identify potential impacts on the organisation's cyber security landscape.
• Using a variety of sources to increase knowledge, corroborate and parallel information. This involves engaging in communities and intelligence sharing initiatives.
• Have confidence in your ability to draw conclusions and provide intelligence led recommendations.
• Own and run regular briefings of Threat Intelligence to the wider security team.
• Respond to intelligence requests from internal teams, using all available sources of intelligence to produce assessments on the threat to support decision-making.
• Ensure clear and concise communication of assessments and complex bits of information for various stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address immediate intelligence needs and contribute to the overall security posture.
• Work closely alongside other Security Operations teams such as SOC
• Develop hypotheses based on threat intelligence to direct joint operations with Cyber Threat technical resources to direct threat hunting
• Continue to develop access to internal data and leverage threat intelligence tooling to maximise intelligence opportunities.
• Dark Web Monitoring

Ensuring Threat Intelligence Programme Meets Organisational Aims (15%):

• Collection of Priority Intelligence Requirements from key stakeholders
• Effective tracking of intelligence activities against these PIRs
• Reporting of service quality against KPIs

Incident Response Support (15%)

• Required to work out of hours, when situation dictates, to support Incident Response activities

Critical Success Factors

• Successful management, integration and optimisation of the Threat Intelligence Platform
• Collection, Analysis and Dissemination of relevant and actionable cyber threat intelligence to stakeholders
• Holistic attitude to Information Security.
• Ability to work towards team and individual targets.

Essential

• 5-6 years of experience within Threat Intelligence.
• Demonstrable experience in analysing and assessing cyber threats, including the ability to identify patterns and trends.
• Proficient in gathering, correlating, and interpreting data from various sources to produce actionable intelligence.
• Experience of giving detailed verbal threat briefings to key stakeholders.
• Experience working with a Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP).
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to influence and persuade stakeholders to enact a more security focused approach.
• Understanding of the intelligence life cycle, from collection through to feedback.
• Excellent written and verbal English
• Experience in producing high-quality intelligence products and documentation for a variety of audiences.
• Familiarity with common cyber threats, threat actors, attack vectors, and vulnerabilities.
• Experience in leveraging open-source intelligence tools and techniques to gather information about threats.
• Knowledge of information assurance standards and frameworks including CIS, NIST, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials/Essentials Plus, GDPR.
• Strong familiarity of threat cyber security frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, Killchain and NIST CSF 2.0

Desirable

• Recognised information security and/or information technology industry certification.
• Good presentation and moderation skills; professional and convincing manner of appearance and expression; clear, targeted communication (verbal and written).
• Good organisational and time management skills
• Experience of delivering and shaping Threat Modelling programmes