What are the responsibilities and job description for the Insider Threat Analyst position at Control Risks?
Control Risks is seeking a skilled Insider Threat Analyst to support a dynamic client environment. In this role, you will play a critical part in identifying, analyzing, and mitigating insider threats by leveraging advanced security tools, behavioral analytics, and investigative techniques. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to assess risks, detect anomalies, and enhance the organization's overall insider threat posture.
- Monitor and analyze user activity to detect potential insider threats.
- Conduct comprehensive investigations into anomalous behavior and policy violations in support of the insider threat mission.
- Uphold investigation and analytic tradecraft standards including confidentiality, privacy, objectivity, lawfulness, timeliness, and use of all available sources of information.
- Develop and implement mitigation strategies to reduce exposure to insider risks.
- Collaborate with cybersecurity, security HR, risk and threat management, and legal teams on threat response.
- Utilize network monitoring, data analytic, and other tools (UEBA/SEIM/DLP) to identify anomalous activity, initiate investigations and decipher underlying trends.
- Contribute to the enhancement of insider threat detection methodologies.
- Develop high quality reports and presentations for the client’s leadership and key stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree in related field
- 2-4 years of work experience in investigations, security, cybersecurity, or risk intelligence.
- Strong analytical abilities to assess complex data and extract meaningful, actionable insights.
- Hands-on experience with insider threat detection tools, including User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) platforms.
- Proven experience conducting investigations, including preliminary assessments, scoping, planning, evidence collection and handling, interviewing, and presenting findings to internal and external stakeholders.
- Excellent analytical skills and written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to work dynamically in a high-paced team environment.
- Control Risks offers a competitively positioned compensation and benefits package that is transparent and summarized in the full job offer.
- We operate a discretionary bonus scheme that incentivizes, and rewards individuals based on company and individual performance.
- Control Risks supports hybrid working arrangements, wherever possible, that emphasize the value of in-person time together - in the office and with our clients - while continuing to support flexible and remote working.
