Senior Threat Intelligence Researcher - IR Support

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

We’re changing the nature of work. Palo Alto Networks is evolving to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks.  And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together. 

Job Description

Your Career

We are seeking a Threat Intelligence Researcher for our Unit 42 Intelligence Response Unit. This team plays a critical role in providing timely, actionable threat intelligence and response capabilities to help protect our customers.

Your Impact

As a Threat Intelligence Researcher in the Intel Response Unit, your primary responsibilities will include:

1. Embedded Intelligence Support: Partner with the Unit 42 front line response teams to provide intelligence support to cases and track activity with intelligence value, including high profile cases that may require support outside of normal business hours. 

2. Leveraging Unique Data Holdings: Harness the full weight of the company's unique data holdings, including product telemetry, front line Incident Response (IR) and Managed Detection and Response (MDR) data, and Intel Holdings. Utilize these resources to produce unique and valuable insights, enhancing the effectiveness and differentiation of our threat intelligence capabilities. Integrate internal holdings with external information to provide actionable intelligence findings to IR teams.

3. Contributing to External Engagement: Develop engaging and informative content, including customer briefings, threat reports, and updates on major cyber events. Share insights and expertise internally, with customers, and at security conferences.

Cross-Organizational Collaboration: Collaborate with threat analysts, consultants, and engineers from various teams and departments within the organization. Foster strong relationships and support joint efforts to address complex threats that span multiple areas of expertise.

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Strong knowledge of cyber security threat actors, particularly their tactics, techniques, procedures, tooling, and noteworthy attacks.

• Experience leveraging open source data sets, internal telemetry, and case information to identify technical pivot opportunities, patterns of activity, and trends.

• Experience integrating cyber threat intelligence into front line response, including demonstrated ability to coordinate with cross-organizational threat analysts, facilitating collaboration, and aligning efforts to achieve common goals.

• Strong writing and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively communicate complex threat intelligence information to diverse audiences. 

• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritize effectively, and triage competing demands.

• Comfortable adapting to changes as part of a growing team.

Additional Information

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

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