Cyber Security Analyst Associate

Role Description

As a Vulnerability Management Analyst you will be a key part of a high performing SOC team with a desire to continually improve and advance our capabilities to protect SMBC Group. You will bring your passion for Cybersecurity to a team of dedicated professionals and leverage this passion to ensure our vulnerability remediation activities are effective and efficient and that we keep pace with a rapidly changing threat landscape. You will help protect the Banks networks applications and infrastructure by working with IT owners to identify and mitigate risks that may be targeted by threat groups.

The Vulnerability Management team is responsible for working with relevant stakeholders to identify analyze mitigate and report on vulnerabilities. The goal is to take a proactive and risk-based approach to identifying and addressing gaps within SMBC to protect the Banks network and data from a cyber-attack and in turn protect its reputation and the trust of this role you will be responsible for configuring scans researching the latest threats analyzing large datasets conducting risk assessments coordinating remediation of identified risks and reporting on compliance levels and opportunities for improvement across the enterprise. Due to the rapidly growing technological footprint and threat landscape this role requires a quick learner that is proactive analytical diligent and organized. The role will require interaction with various teams to effectively communicate and address risk and promote the use of secure technologies in line with security standards.

The role offers the opportunity for a security professional to work in a challenging and complex enterprise environment using leading edge tools and technologies.

Role Objectives

• Triage vulnerability alerts from security tools external intelligence providers penetration tests and user-reported findings to assess impact to organization
• Configure network infrastructure and/or application vulnerability scans and policy checks and conduct manual testing as needed to validate findings
• Liaise with various business units to conduct vulnerability assessments consult on risk reduction strategies and supervise remediation such that vulnerabilities are addressed within required timelines
• Conduct attack surface risk modeling and articulate high-risk areas to stakeholders in collaboration with Threat Intelligence and Threat Hunting functions
• Assist in production of periodic vulnerability management reports and statistics for management
• Tune vulnerability management tools to increase coverage reduce false positives and false negatives and improve processes
• Liaise with Optimization team to set up detections and mitigations i.e. Intrusion Prevention Systems ensuring we have signatures in place to protect us from relevant threats
• Support culture of continuous improvement by proactively investigating new risks and opportunities to strengthen Banks security posture

Qualifications and Skills

• 2 years of cybersecurity IT or related experience
• Bachelor of Information Technology Computer Science or similar preferable
• Strong understanding of MITRE ATT&CK framework common vulnerabilities and exploits
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Understanding of networking concepts and common operating systems
• Ability to analyze large datasets multi-task and effectively prioritize tasks
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal)
• Ability to multi-task and remain productive in a dynamic service-driven and results oriented environment
• Ability to script tasks and automate processes is a plus
• Working knowledge of cloud technologies and containerized environments is a plus

Additional Requirements