Threat Intelligence Analyst, SEAR

Summary

Posted: Aug 22, 2024

Role Number:200555265
Home Office: Yes

Apple’s Security Engineering & Architecture (SEAR) provides operating system security foundations across all of Apple’s innovative products, including Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. As part of our efforts to protect our users, Apple is looking for a world-class threat intelligence analyst to join a team of security researchers and analysts who work together and cross-functionally to inform efforts to solve security engineering challenges. The success we are striving for is the result of very skilled people working in an environment that cultivates creativity, partnership, and solving old problems in new ways. We are looking for a threat intelligence analyst who is passionate about securing the desktop computing environment, loves macOS, and is committed to driving security investigations and improvements in macOS. At Apple, our mission involves securing and protecting over a billion endpoints; operationalizing threat intelligence into security engineering decisions affecting every layer of the stack; and touching the lives of everyone who interacts with our products. Working for a company whose commitment to user privacy is at the heart of everything it does. Being surrounded by the most creative, passionate, hardworking engineers in the industry. Constantly being challenged to go beyond the norm to find new, innovative ways of solving problems and to make software safer, easier, and more fun to use. You can find all of this in one opportunity, and only at Apple.

Description

You will have a broad set of skills that make you successful as threats continue to evolve, and you will be capable of analyzing cyber threats to our users’ devices. Our environment fosters innovation, rapid solution development, and grants a wide range of autonomy–within which you will be expected to work with security engineers and researchers in order to quickly bring to market new security methods and technologies addressing the complex needs of Apple users. - Analyze and understand advanced cyber actors, capabilities, and techniques. - Ability to write scripts to expedite common threat intelligence tasks. - Proficiency in python, sql, and/or other commonly utilized data analysis languages. - Ability to utilize the Diamond Model of Intrusion Analysis, MITRE Pre/ATT&CK frameworks for threat intelligence and research. - Collaborate with security researchers to contextualize cyber threat intelligence for decision makers and work cooperatively to drive solutions. - Provide input into development of security technologies. - Work with security engineers in designing innovative mitigations to cyber threats while preserving privacy, ease-of-use, and user experience. - Remote work, with very occasional travel.

Minimum Qualifications

• Intellectually curious team player with a genuine passion for finding, understanding, and mitigating cyber threats against macOS.
• In-depth understanding of the threat intelligence cycle and cyber operations.
• Minimum of 4 years experience in threat intelligence or security research.
• Experience in analyzing highly-complex threat actor campaigns, including infrastructure, malware, and victim endpoints.
• Ability to distill complex problems into manageable tasks and then drive those tasks to completion.
• Demonstrable experience investigating macOS threat activity.
• Impeccable attention to detail.
• Growth mindset, thrives in fast-paced, changing environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Proven history of successfully working on solo and group projects in a virtual/remote environment.
• Bachelors Degree or Masters in related field or equivalent years of industry related experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics