Associate Cyber Threat Analyst

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OPPORTUNITY OVERVIEWServing within the ZeroFox Public Sector Services (PSS) department as an Associate Cyber Threat Analyst, you will collect information to identify threats, and generate intelligence to assess risk in relevance to client needs. Intelligence activities can include researching current and emerging threats issues covering physical security, cyber security, reputation risk and compliance issues. The Associate Cyber Threat Analyst will have an investigative or analytical background and demonstrated exceptional analytic prowess in areas such as trend analysis and pattern recognition, using independent critical thinking and judgment to act, lead, initiate and/or recommend next steps. Discretion, teamwork, and creativity are a must.

Role and responsibilities

• Learn and employ ZeroFox patented technology to identify and analyze relevant information collected from the Internet, based on client-specific criteria, to assemble relevant findings for daily intelligence reporting;
• Assist in customer care and all production aspects covering the range of assigned duties. Support and/or lead recurring deliverables and touchpoints (ad hoc/daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly and/or annual):
• Security/Incident Alerts
• Processing of Large data sets
• Intelligence reports
• Trend and summary reports
• Strategic assessments and reviews
• Client briefings
• Support collection enhancement with ongoing and proactive collaboration with Collection Management. 
• Proactive professional development through company trainings, industry certifications, and seeking new opportunities to maintain and grow relevant knowledge and skill sets. 
• Identify and communicate enhancement opportunities and improvement ideas.

Required qualifications and skills

• Four years of Army experience with increasing responsibilities 35F and 17C preferred.
• Experience in open source intelligence (OSINT) and social media research, or investigations, typically obtained in 2-3 years. Ability to connect the dots.
• Creativity in leveraging internet search techniques and methods.
• Ability to determine the credibility, value, significance, and relevancy of information from different data sources to produce clear, concise, and timely analytical products.
• Strong written and oral communication skills; comfortable with providing briefings and presentations.
• Experience producing short and long form reports.
• applying BLUF or similar models.
• Comfortable working independently and in teams.
• Experience with some of the following: Social Media Platforms, blogs, IRC, Deep/Darkweb and message boards.
• Ability to collect, authenticate, validate and document online evidence.
• Proficient with at least one online investigative tool, such as Whois, Ping, Traceroute, etc.
• Proficiency using Google Productivity Suite.
• Some college courses on cyber security, intelligence studies, and homeland security.
• MOS 35 F Advanced Individual Training (AIT) complete preferred.
• OSINT and PAI experience.

Desired qualifications and skills

• Public or private sector experience as an analyst, researcher, investigator or consultant supporting a security, risk or due diligence function. 
• Previous experience working in the federal contracting space.
• Experience in conducting studies and making recommendations to identify threat vectors, threat actors, and threat trends.
• High degree of knowledge of Social Media Platforms, blogs, IRC, message boards, Deep/Darkweb/
• Possession of excellent project/team leadership, contributing to satisfactory performance outcomes, skills development, and successfully maintaining effective client relationship skills.
• Knowledge and  familiarity with relevant threat landscapes or industry practice areas such as cybercrime, online fraud, physical / corporate security, activism, hacktivism, reputation risk, travel security, geopolitical or policy issues.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Community-driven culture with employee events
• Generous time off 
• Comprehensive health benefits & 401(k) plan
• Respectful and nourishing work environment, where every opinion is heard and everyone is encouraged to be an active part of the organizational culture

Interested?

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