Threat Intelligence Specialist - AVP [T500-14535]

About the Role

Position Title: Threat Intelligence Specialist

Corporate Title: Assistant Vice President

Reporting to: Vice President of Threat Intelligence

Location: Bengaluru

Job Profile

Position details

The IRMD Threat Intelligence Centre is to ensure that key activities in furnishing MUFG with actionable intelligence by identifying, analysing, and tracking potential cyber threats that could impact the bank.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead collection of information for different level of cyber threat intelligence, ranging from strategic, tactical to operational.
• Analyse information collected to produce actionable intelligence.
• Utilise internal and OSINT tools to research threat, vulnerabilities, and intelligence on various threat actors relevant to MUFG.
• Manage and finetune threat intelligence sources to fit the bank’s operating environment.
• Lead the development and maintenance threat actor and TTP knowledge base.
• Create comprehensive reports about current threat landscape and trends of interest to MUFG.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance threat intelligence processes, procedure, and services.
• Support the incident response function with relevant intelligence during incident response.
• Support and participate in threat hunting activities.
• Strengthen security measures by proactively identifying security weaknesses and implementing adjustments.
• Provide insights and influence the cybersecurity roadmap of MUFG.
• Guide, advise the team on threat intelligence procedures.
• Continuously keep up to date with emerging threat trends within the cybersecurity landscape.
• Participate in Global Intelligence team discussion.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Cybersecurity, or related field.
• 8-12 years of proven experience in cyber threat intelligence analysis, including the ability to identify, assess, and respond to various cyber threats.
• Possess security certifications such as SANS GCTI, CISSP or any Cyber security specialty is an added advantage.
• Good understanding of CTI framework like Mitre ATT&CK, Cyber kill chain and Diamond model.
• Up-to-date knowledge on cyber security technologies (TIPS, SIEM, SOAR, EDR and etc)
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to envision solutions to complex security problems.
• Proficiency in cybersecurity technologies and threat intelligence platforms.
• Extensive understanding of internet security issues and threat landscape.
• Strong knowledge of threat hunting, forensics, and incident response processes is an added advantage.
• Experience with various cybersecurity tools and network monitoring systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work in a high-pressure environment.