Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst

The posting, as Accenture Federal Services wrote it

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Job Description

The core responsibility of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst is to proactively identify, analyze, and counteract sophisticated cyber threats, including social engineering, advanced persistent threats (APTs), and cyber-attack campaigns. This role involves conducting deep research and leveraging threat intelligence platforms, collaborating with data scientists, researchers, investigators, engineers, and both internal and external partners to develop actionable intelligence, enhance the organization’s security posture, and inform strategic decision-making. This person will own the Cyber Threat Operations Center (CTOC) Threat Intelligence processes and procedures. This role may include the need to work outside of core hours on high priority investigations and may also include on-call responsibilities.

Responsibilities include

• Threat Identification and Analysis:
• Proactively identify and analyze attacker campaigns and techniques that evade protection systems
• Conduct in-depth research on emerging threats and vulnerabilities
• Intelligence Production:
• Produce actionable intelligence on the attack landscape that drives durable protection enhancements into products, services, processes, and infrastructure
• Detection Method Prototyping:
• Prototype new detection methods and experiment with new data sources, tools, and methods for proactively identifying and monitoring attacker campaigns and changes in the attack landscape
• Threat Modeling:
• Conduct threat modeling to anticipate and mitigate potential attack vectors, using frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, STRIDE, or similar
• Collaboration:
• Collaborate with data scientists, threat hunters, investigators, engineers, and both internal and external stakeholders to share actionable curated intelligence and drive impact
• Process Improvement:
• Develop and implement updates to CTOC Threat Intelligence processes, procedures, and tools
• Publish intelligence on TTPs and campaigns
• Exercise Support:
• Provide support to SOC exercises (Red, Purple Team, TTXs) operations to test and improve incident response and security posture by supplying intelligence on potential targets, attack

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