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Sr Assoc, Cyber Sec AI Threat Defense

Northern Trust


Job Location:

Naperville, IL - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 88900 - 151100
Posted: 8 June 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 5 September 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy
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Job Summary

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust a Fortune 500 company is a globally recognized award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the worlds most successful individuals families and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service expertise and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22000 partners we serve the worlds most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

The AI Threat Defense Analyst Senior Associate is responsible for:

Key responsibilities:

  • Continuously research new and emerging vulnerabilities misconfigurations or attack patterns that relate to AI.
  • Assess vulnerabilities/threats based on severity exploitability and business impact.
  • Conduct proactive exploitation assessments PoC to validate whether known vulnerabilities in our environment are exploitable before adversaries confirm it for us and pitch gap analysis
  • Build and maintain AI-specific threat profile - mapping TTPs and known exploitation timelines.
  • Partner with Purple team for validation of emerging attack techniques/vulnerabilities through testing proof-of-concept development where possible.
  • Work with threat hunting to proactive hunt against our own environment based on Early identification of exploitation signs and exposure windows shortens our mean time to respond and reduces potential blast radius.

Qualifications

  • 3 years of cybersecurity experience with demonstrated leadership in threat management incident response or security operations.
  • Strong understanding of modern adversary TTPs including AI-enabled threats automation abuse and emerging attack techniques.
  • Some development experience in Java C C# Powershell or Python.

Salary Range:

$88900 - 151100 USD

Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension) health and welfare benefits (medical dental vision spending accounts and disability) paid time off parental and caregiver leave life & accident insurance and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged senior leaders are accessible and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve!Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

Wed love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the worlds most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us andapply today.#MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process please email our HR Service Center at .


We hope youre excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.


Required Experience:

Senior IC


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