Gsg Cyber Threat Intelligence Lead - London, United Kingdom - Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Salary:

- £41,412 - £44,767-
Job grade:

Senior Executive Officer
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
CO
Government Security Group
Type of role:
Analytical
Operational Delivery
Security
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
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Job summary:

The UK government processes a mass of sensitive data, provides a critical service to the public, operates an extensive and complex IT estate, and faces a significant and growing cyber threat.

In response we invest in a well funded and innovative cyber-security programme and we are looking for talented individuals who can bring a range of skills and experience to the department.

The Cyber Directorate within GSG(also known as GSG Cyber) sits within Government Security Group(GSG) and covers all aspects of Defensive Cyber Security for Government from strategy, policy and standards to the operational deliverables of incident, risk, threat intelligence and vulnerability management.

We manage investment from the National Cyber Security Programme, outreach and engagement across Government and the wider public sector among much else.

The Cyber Operations team provides GSG with reporting cyber operational risk across the government sector, working closely with the Cabinet Office National Security team and the NCSC.

The team is responsible for coordinating and understanding operational cyber risk across government.

If you're passionate about protecting government, want to be part of a security evolution, have a grounding in cyber security and want to learn more, this is the team for you.

Come and help make government stronger.

Job description:

As the cyber threat intelligence lead within GSG you will help to protect HMG against cyber threats.

You will play a key role in defining cross-government threat and work closely with our vulnerabilities team to deliver the operational cyber risk picture.

As part of the wider cyber operations team, you will also support the delivery of the Government Cyber Coordination Centre(GCCC) by driving collaboration across the cyber threat intelligence community, working with NCSC and CDDO in developing innovative ways to work with government data and processes, in support of the Government Cyber Security Strategy(GCSS) and the requirement to "Defend as One.

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This role will:

Lead the generation, collection and dissemination of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) across the Public Sector and HMG. Drawing upon all potential sources of data (from inside and outside Government) at all classifications. The postholder will be proactive and ensure the right CTI data gets to the right stakeholders in a rapidly consumable and actionable format.
Build trusted partnerships across the intelligence community, commercial threat vendors and customer organisations.
Develop the capabilities, processes and data flows that permit automatic and timely sharing of actionable cyber security relevant data to those that need it in the defence of the Public Sector.
Ensure that relevant Public Sector cyber security policies and strategies appropriately reflect developed best practices and lessons learnt across CTI including data generation, sharing and management.

Person specification:

Responsibilities:

Establishing, maintaining and developing a cross government community of threat intelligence expertise with both internal/external partners and the wider Assessment Community to improve intelligence flow through collaboration and influence.
Lead and motivate information sharing forums and maintain other intelligence relationships (internal and external) to enhance understanding of threats within HMG.
Working closely with GSG Cyber Ops teams to predict and prioritise threats to an organisation and their methods of attack. Analyses the significance and implication of processed intelligence to identify significant trends, potential threat agents and their capabilities.
Collation, analysis and assessment of threat intelligence and data from a range of sources taking into account its relevance and reliability to develop and maintain situational awareness.
Turn information into action at strategic, tactical and operational levels in support of Government policy.
The role will also act to support GSG's cyber incident response function as and when required.

Who are we looking for?

Essential Criteria:

Experience of working in Cyber Security, ideally within a SOC/Operations environment.
Identifying, collating, analysing and disseminating tactical, operational and strategic cyber threat intelligence from multiple information and data sources, including from CO systems, other government departments (OGDs), open and commercial sources.
Producing wellwritten, wellstructured, time