Threat Intelligence Lead - Leeds, United Kingdom - Anson McCade Ltd - IT and Finance Recruitment

Anson McCade Ltd - IT and Finance Recruitment

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Leeds, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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**Role

Threat Intelligence Lead

Contract
- £800PD Inside IR35
Duration - 1 Year
Location

Leeds

On-Site 5days (Monday-Friday) 9-5pm
Clearance - Governmental SC - DV to Follow**Fantastic opportunity with a FTSE 100 organisation who is a world leader in cyber security

**Threat Intelligence Lead Role: **The day-to-day focus of the Threat Intelligence Lead is establishing and maintaining threat data sources, defining threat intelligence requirements and developing high quality TI outputs tailored for the SOC and in support on incident management andresponse. This includes performing research, developing reports and briefings and, ensuring the latest and most appropriate IoCs are installed on the detection platforms across the whole SOC in liaison with the authority and NCSC, along with providing therelevant context to the SOC analysts.

Threat Intelligence Lead Responsibilites:

Produce and maintain threat assessments to provide a clear understanding of the customer threat landscape.
Maintain the IoC database tailored to the monitored environment and threats and ensure changes are pushed to the detection systems in a timely manner.
Maintain threat profiles and threat modelling and applicability to the monitored estate along with updating the modelling to detail what detection and controls are in place to mitigate the threats.
Gather and maintain a set of TI requirements that define the threats that will be monitored, tracked and researched by the TI Team.
Oversee the collection, collation and maintenance of threat data collected from open and closed sources and ensure it appropriately validated.
Conduct analysis and research to determine the identity, motivations, relationships, targets / victims, capabilities, tooling and infrastructure of threat groups relevant to customer.

Threat Intelligence Lead Requirements:

Working in a Threat Intelligence team developing threat intelligence products for technical and nontechnical audiences.
Performing malware analysis and reverse engineering.
Conducting threat assessments and defining threat intelligence requirements.
Developing and maintaining threat data sources.
Advanced knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems and use of the command line.
Advanced knowledge of core networking concepts and technologies e.g. TCP/IP.
Intermediate knowledge of malware behaviour and techniques employed by attackers to evade security controls.
Intermediate knowledge of malware analysis and reverse engineering techniques.

**MSA
Threat Intelligence Lead