Security Analyst (L2)

Responsibilities

• Produce intelligence outputs to provide an accurate depiction of the current threat landscape and associated risk through the use of customer, community, and open source reporting
• Produce actionable intelligence information for delivery to colleagues and customers in the form of technical reports, briefings, and data feeds
• Participate in regular threat focus meetings with fellow SOCs
• Perform detailed investigative works into all traffic anomalies against established, historical baselines of individual agencies. Reviewing and profiling the events of all monitored clients
• Assist the Security Analysts with the investigative works
• Build rules and intelligence to detect such threats and proliferate to all monitored networks. Implementing and devising detection method of such threats in our security operations thru CESM IE/MCE Rules, DB scripts etc.
• Works with R&D for new signature package for deployment.
• Filtering and fine-tuning the security events flowing to our databases
• Prepare training programme for Security Analyst and conduct knowledge sharing sessions for Security Analyst
• Working with engineering team to set up new initiatives i.e. honeypot on the Internet ADSL link to improve security incident detection capabilities
• Monitor real-time third party security feeds, forums, and mailing lists to gather information on vulnerabilities and exploits related to the client
• Assess each event based on factual information and wider contextual information available
• Any other tasks as assigned

Requirements

• Degree holder with at least 5 years' of experience in related field and capacity
• Prior experience working in a Security Operations Centre (SOC) or Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT/CIRT).
• Possessed deep interest in open source research and critical thinking / contextual analysis abilities
• Investigative and analytical problem solving skills
• An understanding of the current vulnerabilities, response, and mitigation strategies used in cyber security;
• Related professional cyber security certification, such as GCIA, CEH, will be preferred.
• Experience with intelligence analysis processes, including Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and closed source intelligence gathering, source verification, data fusion, link analysis, and threat actor.
• Ability to research and characterize security threats to include identification and classification of threat indicators