The successful candidate will be expected to:

Develop a threat intelligence strategy to support the business to become proactive, focused, and preventative and develop and implement appropriate plans to address lower performance and ineffective cyber hunting practices. Produce intelligence outputs, threat and vulnerability reports, data and actionable intelligence and situational awareness to facilitate decision making. Research and identify potential threats and vulnerabilities and develop action plans to counter emerging cyber intelligence threats. Produce threat warnings, real-time situational and predictive analysis and the synthesis of all-source information and data. Participate in meetings and produce technical reports on intelligence threats and mechanisms depicting    the value of the cyber intelligence function. Effectively manage a team of Security Cyber Analysts and

Threat Hunters, their resources and overall performance

Key Responsibilities will include:

–  Develops and executes security controls, defenses, and countermeasures to intercept and prevent

internal or external attacks or attempts to infiltrate company email, data, e-commerce, and web-based systems.

–  Maintains hardware, software and network firewalls and encryption protocols.

–  Administers cyber security policies to control physical and virtual access to systems.

–  Performs network security audits and testing and evaluates system security configurations to ensure efficacy and compliance with policies and procedures.

–  Conducts penetration testing and vulnerability assessments of applications, operating systems and/or networks.

–  Responds to cyber security breaches, identifies intrusions, and isolates, blocks, and removes unauthorized access.

–  Researches and evaluates cyber security threats and performs root cause analysis.

–  Assists in the creation and implementation of security solutions.

–  Provides information to management regarding impact on the business caused by theft, destruction, alteration, or denial of access to information and systems.

–  Oversees the detection and assessment of cyber security events and incidents across an organization’s cyber environment.

–  Manages the team’s overall response to suspicious and criminal activity initiated by threat actors existing on the network.

–  Provides technical guidance and oversight in protecting systems from criminal activity, cybersecurity breaches and ransomware attack.

–  Serves as a technical expert in determining the scope of intrusion by identifying the initial point of access or source.