Senior Consultant, CTI, Cyber, Financial Services

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