Threat Intel Analyst I

Threat Intelligence Analyst I

Reporting to the Manager, Cyber Threat Intel, a Threat Intelligence Analyst I participates in all aspects of team’s activities in monitoring, investigating and reporting on discoveries that may impact our client(s).

This team member must have strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills, language skills, analytical abilities, and working knowledge of how cybercriminals source, implement and benefit (profit) from cyberattacks. 

Additionally, they must possess a solid sense of ethics, a working knowledge of legalities, and a familiarity of industry standards surrounding open-source intelligence gathering.

This individual must embrace processes and automation to constantly improve the capabilities and performance of the team, while constantly improving their skills and experience. 

This role is remote but may require some minor travel for execution of duties. 

Responsibilities Include: 

• Process both internal and external Cyber Threat Intel for determination of threats while ascertaining the potential scope and impact to inform and defend our clients by defining possible mitigation and/or detection methods, or strategies to lessen impact. This includes reports from law enforcement, security researchers, industry leaders and governmental agencies. 
• Conducts pivoting analysis on historical, current, and new intelligence to identify additional information, changing impacts and scope, new techniques, and zero-day discussions to determine potential or future activities (targets or trends) to generate proactive recommendations. 
• Identifies needs in intel gathering strategy and assist changes in tooling and processes.  
• Assists in development of current and new reporting methods of Intelligence analysis to peers and leadership teams for purposes of situational awareness and making Intelligence actionable.
• Assists in identify cyber threats, trends and new developments in cyber threat landscape by analyzing and synthesizing large quantities of complex threat information, distilling it to the most critical issues; and draw accurate conclusions. 
• Translate intelligence analysis into concise, actionable written or verbal communications to share with senior management, information security experts, and both technical and non-technical users. 
• Assists with strategic projects and capabilities to enhance existing cyber threat intelligence functions. 

Requirements 

• Functional experience with scripting in Python, Ruby, or JavaScript. 
• Working capability with automation and organization tools, such as Jupyter, Splunk or MISP.
• Topical knowledge of DNS, cybersecurity topics, threat actors, operations, campaigns and similar knowledge areas

APOLLO INFORMATION SYSTEMS is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation for the application/interview process for a job posting should contact hr@apollo-is.com