Cyber Security Analyst III / Senior

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Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

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The selected candidate will support the Cybersecurity Analytics Support Team (CAST) function by actively working with CAST personnel, supervisory staff and Board of Governors’ staff concerning ongoing cyber incidents within supervised institutions as well as emerging threats potentially impacting the United States financial sector. This individual would have experience and/or expertise in multiple cybersecurity subject matter areas:

• Cybersecurity related frameworks such as NIST 800-53, NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), IS 27001, MITRE ATT&CK, etc.

• Assessing cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, and related exploitation activity; recommending related mitigations to manage risk to computing environments.

• Tracking and reporting on threat actor groups that potentially pose a threat to the United States financial sector.

• Cloud services and providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

• Incident management and response activities related to cybersecurity events.

• Security architecture and design implementation to mitigate threats against confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Essential Accountabilities

• Conducts analysis and interpreting of cybersecurity threats to identify trends and emerging risks.

• Provide input and insight into response activities during cyber incidents to include best practices from regulatory bodies, cybersecurity organizations, and NIST.

• Conducts formal assessments to determine the severity of reported cybersecurity incidents at financial institutions.

• Prepares in written form research, analysis, and assessments for key internal stakeholders as needed or requested. Analysis supports recommendations regarding cybersecurity threats, threat vectors, threat actors and threat trends.

• Demonstrates knowledge of cybersecurity threats within the broader financial sector and related industries.

• Assist bank supervision examination teams, the central point of contact teams, and examiners-in-charge during active cybersecurity incidents at regulated banking/financial institutions.

• Build and maintain relationships with central points of contact teams, examiners, and board staff across the Federal Reserve System.

• Communicate appropriate information to the Supervision & Regulation staff at the Federal Reserve Bank and Board levels to maintain a comprehensive understanding of ongoing incidents and ensure appropriate steps are taken to isolate any potential residual effects from a cyber incident.

• Participates in knowledge sharing forums related to key cybersecurity risks and emerging issues.

• Participates in efforts to advance Reserve Bank or System strategic initiatives.

• Provides leadership, coaching, and mentoring for less experienced analysts on processes and procedures related to internal matters and the supervisory process.

• Weekend on-call support is part of the position on a rotating basis (generally once every 12 weeks)

• Performs other duties as assigned or requested.

Education and Experience

Analyst III: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Management Information Systems or related field and 7+ years of related work experience required OR Master's Degree and 5+ years of professional work experience.
 

• Advanced ability to perform independent research and provide written reports summarizing findings and analysis.

• Intermediate knowledge of regulations, procedures, and practices of a specific discipline (e.g., bank examinations, information security, cyber intelligence).

• Advanced problem solving and analytical thinking.

• Advanced specialized operational/technical skills in cyber intelligence and information security.

• Intermediate kn