Cyber Security Insider Threat Analyst Professional

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Position Overview:

Do you have a passion for analyzing threats and experience in collecting and analyzing insider threat behavior to determine response and mitigation? If you have proven skills and experience in the world of insider threat or cyber threat intelligence, apply now and learn why there’s #MoreAtFreddieMac!

Our Impact:

The Insider Threat team is responsible for keeping Freddie Mac protected from internal risks thereby enabling the organization to conduct business in a secure environment through a variety of engagements, including:

• Insider threat and threat intelligence
• Monitoring of employee behavioral patterns
• Detecting and responding to security events
• Response and investigation of insider threat
• Governance, reporting, and team/process optimization

As an Insider Threat Analyst, you will be part of Cyber Security Operations & Intelligence at Freddie Mac and will help carry the Information Security department’s vision of reducing information risk by ensuring and enhancing the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information. This position report to the Insider Threat Program Manager.

Insider Threat Analysts are responsible for conducting analysis, providing assessment of suspected insider threat activity, among a variety of other duties related to these broad responsibilities.

The Cyber Insider Threat Team provides both direct and indirect support of enterprise security needs and requirements and produces:

• Insider Threat Analysts are responsible for conducting analysis, providing assessment of suspected insider threat activity, among a variety of other duties related to these broad responsibilities.
• The Cyber Insider Threat Team provides both direct and indirect support of enterprise security needs and requirements and produces:
  • Tactical internal threat assessments in support of Freddie Mac’s Cyber Information Security efforts
  • Monitoring and analysis of potential insider threat activity and making informed decisions on escalating threat activity for further review.
  • Data analytics - extract raw data to observe concerned behavior and activity of potential insiders, combine and correlate data from multiple sources to observe any anomaly in employee behavior; create and implement detection methods and strategies for insider threats and use advanced analytics to identify any irregular patterns in insider activities.
  • Create and update scripts using python to help build data correlations from multiple data sources and design automated risk scoring for profile; leverage these for behavioral baselining and analytics
  • Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) – leverage GenAI to build better detections, leverage machine learning (ML) and large language models (LLMs) to create behavioral baselines that would trigger alerts for anomalous behavior
  • Recommendations - make a recommendation on Freddie Mac’s security posture based on the outcome of insider threat investigation.

Your Impact:

• Use your analytical problem-solving skills to identify trends and patterns in data that indicate a potential or existing insider threat event
• Use your programming skills to write scripts that can correlate data from multiple sources to build behavioral analytics and patterns
• Understand and apply risk scoring and threat analysis tools to improve the Freddie Mac security posture
• Leverage your experience with User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA), Data Loss Prevention (DLP) security controls, and SIEM tools to properly detect, categorize, and document threat events
• Monitor various sources for insider threat activity on a continuous basis, including commercial and Opensource tools to quickly analyze, detect, and mitigate potential cyber security incidents
• Analyze internal threat intelligence and security related activities for the development of cyber threat summaries including risks to the institution and specific actions for the institution to consider
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with various lines of business, trusted parties, individual contributors and management
• Create structured and ad-hoc communications appropriate to different audiences on both technical and non-technical topics
• Develop comprehensive security write-ups which describe security issues, analysis, and remediation techniques to senior management
• Develop internal documentation, such as detailed proced