Cybersecurity Defense Analyst

Technical Skills Required

• The individual must have a good understanding of the Windows operating system. Knowledge or experience of Linux and OSX would be beneficial but is not essential.
• They must be able to utilize sources of information and tools to accurately and completely source all data used in intelligence, assessment, and planning to produce presentations and reports.
• They can apply cybersecurity principles to organizational requirements, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, and non-repudiation of the organization’s data and systems.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Purview tools and ideally Sentinel.

Specialized Skills Required

• Document and escalate incidents (including event's history, status, and potential impact for further action) that may cause ongoing and immediate impact to the environment.
• Perform cyber defense trend analysis and reporting.
• Perform event correlation using information gathered from a variety of sources within the enterprise to gain situational awareness and determine the effectiveness of an observed attack.
• Plan and recommend modifications or adjustments based on exercise results or system environment.
• Provide timely detection, identification, and alerting of possible attacks/intrusions, anomalous activities, and misuse activities and distinguish these incidents and events from benign activities.
• Use cyber defense tools for continual monitoring and analysis of system activity to identify malicious activity.
• Recommend computing environment vulnerability corrections.
• Conduct research, analysis, and correlation across a wide variety of all source data sets (indications and warnings).
• Notify designated managers, cyber incident responders, and cybersecurity service provider team members of suspected cyber incidents and articulate the event's history, status, and potential impact for further action.
• Analyze and report organizational security posture trends.
• Monitor external data sources (e.g., cyber defense vendor sites, Computer Emergency Response Teams, Security Focus) to maintain currency of cyber defense threat conditions and determine which security issues may have an impact on the enterprise.
• Provides cybersecurity recommendations to leadership based on significant threats and trends.
• Work with stakeholders to resolve computer security incidents and vulnerability compliance.
• Audit, analyze, and report on the security of UL Solutions, supporting processes and systems.
• Discover and perform analysis to resolve complex security-related problems.
• Support investigations and research for possible computer security-related violations.
• Conduct log analysis to identify malicious activity and anomalous behavior.
• Support the planning, design, enforcement and auditing of security policies and procedures
• Cyber Defense Operational activity including:
• Investigating and responding to DLP alerts.
• Investigating and responding to Insider Risk management alerts.
• Insider threat monitoring.
• Metrics gathering and management.
• Gather, process and report on Threat Intelligence.
• Assist with Threat-hunting services.
• Prepares reports, which include recommendations and supporting arguments.
• Assists in developing and delivering presentations of reports. May present reports to small groups within a subunit(s)
• Performs other duties as directed.
• High School graduate or above.
• Excellent spoken and written English.
• 2+ years of work experience in Cyber Security.
• Experience in Threat Intelligence or Vulnerability Management
• Knowledge of ISO27001 or other global security standards.
• Experience with Microsoft Purview tooling.
• Experience with Microsoft Defender.
• Security Certification is an advantage.