Cyber Threat Inteligence Specialist

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As a Senior Threat Intelligence Specialist, you will report to the ACI EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) Consulting Lead. You will be responsible for delivery of the existing and prospective ACI consulting portfolio, such as threat assessments, attack surface assessments, industry threat landscape reports, and social media brand monitoring.

Key Responsibilities

• Timely delivery of the ACI consulting portfolio adhering to the highest standard of quality.
• Collaborative production of threat assessment reports considering a company’s cyber threat landscape and its digital footprint.
• Production of ad-hoc cyber threat intelligence alerts and reports aimed at meeting client requirements.
• Deep dive analysis of threats facing Accenture clients.
• Contribution to the team’s overall delivery effectiveness and efficiency, such as by contributing to analyst workflow automation, trialing new tools, and improving existing delivery methodologies.
• Supporting the EMEA ACI Research team, which specializes in tracking threat actor activity and conducting technical research.
• Support team leads to manage projects and conduct quality assurance of reports.
• Engage with clients to understand their requirements and debrief them on business impact and recommendations following threat assessment reports.

Basic Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent qualifications, preferably relating to politics, intelligence, or information security.
• Minimum 3 years of work experience involving threat intelligence, project management, and client engagement.

Required Skills

• Ability to work with geographically dispersed teams.
• Research skills.
• English language proficiency (both written and oral).
• Strong writing skills.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Ability to learn quickly.
• Knowledge of threat intelligence and cyber defense concepts.
• Knowledge of open-source intelligence collection, and processing and analysis of multiple data sources, most of which are open source.
• Ability to work as part of a team and independently with minimal supervision.
• Ability to conduct quality assurance and provide feedback.
• Ability to produce intelligence products for varied audiences (e.g., tactical, operational, strategic).
• Experience in a similar role.

Desired Skills

• Knowledge of how to work on regulatory-driven engagements, such as CBEST and TIBER (Threat Intelligence-Based Ethical Red-teaming) engagements.
• Ability to conduct open-source intelligence collection and analysis.
• Basic knowledge of open-source tools, such as Shodan, Maltego, PassiveTotal.
• Non-English language skills.
• Working knowledge of common threat intelligence frameworks and methodologies to quantify cyber risk (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Killchain, FAIR).
• Keen interest in cyber security as demonstrated by experience/training/education or extra-curricular pursuits.
• Understanding of geopolitical landscape and how real-world events and geopolitics influence cyber activity.
• Basic technical skills, such as understanding of investigating a company’s digital footprint and infrastructure.