Senior Threat Intelligence Researcher
Senior Threat Intelligence Researcher
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Job Description
About the Team:
Arctic Wolf Labs is the researchfocused division at Arctic Wolf focused on advancing innovation in the field of security operations. The mission of Arctic Wolf Labs is to develop cuttingedge technology and tools that are designed to enhance the companys core mission to end cyber risk while also bringing comprehensive security intelligence to Arctic Wolfs customer base and the security communityatlarge.
Leveraging the more than two trillion security events the Arctic Wolf Security Operations Cloud ingests parses enriches and analyzes each week Arctic Wolf Labs is responsible for performing threat research on new and emerging adversaries developing advanced threat detection models and driving improvement in the speed scale and detection abilities of Arctic Wolfs solution offerings. The Arctic Wolf Labs team comprises security and threat intelligence researchers data scientists and security development engineers with deep domain knowledge in artificial intelligence (AI) security R&D as well as advanced threat offensive and defensive methods and technologies.
About the Role
In this Senior Threat Intelligence Researcher role you will work in our threat intelligence research team under Arctic Wolf Labs. As a senior member in the team you will have demonstrated experience performing threat intelligence analysis and/or research into novel threats. In this role you will have the opportunity to help define new threat research processes and procedures lead investigations into new and emerging threats and produce intelligence that is consumed by several groups within Arctic Wolf. Your threat intelligence work will also make its way into the core of many detections in the Arctic Wolf platform.
You will work closely with our Managed Risk (MR) and Managed Detection & Response (MDR) product R&D teams as a subject matter expert to ensure our detection development benefits from understanding the most current threat actor TTPs.
Responsibilities:
Support the management of the full Arctic Wolf threat intelligence research and analysis lifecycle.
Be involved in testing integrating and managing threat intelligence and research tools
Leverage a threat intelligence platform (TIP) on a daily basis to centralize all new collected threat intelligence.
Integrate new sources of threat intelligence from OSINT and closed sources into our TIP
Provide mentorship and guidance in threat intelligence to junior researchers analysts and engineers across Arctic Wolf.
Identify and monitor open and closed sources for intelligence on new and emerging threats that are relevant to Arctic Wolf customers
Work closely with Threat Intelligence Researchers and developers across our product line to create the best of breed intelligence led detections in the Arctic Wolf platform
Utilize best practices for threat intelligence research and documentation and deliver highquality work on tight schedules
We value a culture of sharing so every team has the opportunity to share their work with the entire department during our monthly R&D Demos. Once a year we hold a departmentwide Hackathon teaming up across all R&D teams over four days to collaborate and build cool ideas outside the normal project scope. While innovation is the focus some of these ideas do make it into our products.
About You
Demonstrated experience in academic or professional settings in threat intelligence and/or threat research roles
Proficient in applying the MITRE ATT&CK framework to intelligence products and associated depth of analysis for each TTP and threat actor represented in this body of knowledge
Proficient in analyzing and deriving intelligence from phishing and malware campaigns vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild supply chain attacks and data breaches
Proficient in quickly extracting technically relevant threat intelligence from various sources and applying that to detection/response methods in various security technologies/products
Strong understanding of threat protection/detection tooling/stacks used for endpoint network and cloud: SIEM TIP SOAR NGFW/NIPS/NIDS/NSM UEBA/Security Analytics XDR/EDR
Demonstrated experience interacting with APIs and writing Python scripts to automate threat intelligence collection
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Resourceful selfstarter with a positive cando attitude
Experience deploying managing or using a Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP)
Experience with modern development methodologies (Agile Kanban XP etc.
Interest in mentoring aspiring threat intelligence professionals
Bachelors degree in related field or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience
In addition you may have demonstrated leadership experience from previous projects regardless of title held. Even if you havent worked with all of our specific technologies you bring a diverse knowledge base that you use to help the team solve complex technical problems. You have comprehensive knowledge of software development practices and mastery over writing and debugging code.
Our Values
Arctic Wolf recognizes that success comes from delighting our customers so we work together to ensure that happens every day. We believe in diversity and inclusion and truly value the unique qualities and unique perspectives all employees bring to the organization. And we appreciate thatby protecting peoples and organizations sensitive data and seeking to end cyber risk we get to work in an industry that is fundamental to the greater good.
We celebrate unique perspectives by creating a platform for all voices to be heard through our Pack Unity program. We encourage all employees to join or create a new alliance. See more about our Pack Unity here.
Arctic Wolf is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex orientation national origin age disability genetics or any other basis forbidden under federal provincial or local law. Arctic Wolf is committed to fostering a welcoming accessible respectful and inclusive environment ensuring equal access and participation for people with disabilities. As such we strive to make our entireemployeeexperience as accessible as possible and provideaccommodationsas required for candidates and employees with disabilities and/or other specific needs where possible. Please let us know if you require any accommodations by emailing .
Security Requirements
Conducts duties and responsibilities in accordance with AWNs Information Security policies standards processes and controls to protect the confidentiality integrity and availability of AWN business information (in accordance with our employee handbook and corporate policies).
Background checks are required for this position.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
