Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst

WPP

WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, clients, and communities.

Why we're hiring:

Join our Cyber Security team as a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst and play a critical role in safeguarding our organization. You will be instrumental in developing and delivering both operational and tactical cyber threat intelligence capabilities, maintaining a keen understanding of the evolving threat landscape. This role involves identifying emerging threats, analyzing data from diverse sources, and providing actionable intelligence that informs our security posture. You'll manage the entire threat intelligence lifecycle, ensuring its seamless integration into our processes and tools. By dissecting threat actor motivations, tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) targeting our organization, you'll produce insightful reports that drive prioritized remediation efforts. You will also be responsible for preparing and presenting concise threat intelligence briefings to the CTI Manager, contributing directly to our strategic defense against cyber threats.

What you'll be doing:

• Monitoring and Analysing Threat Data: Continuously monitor external cyber threat data to provide actionable intelligence
• Evaluating Intelligence: Assess the accuracy, reliability, and relevance of intelligence from various sources
• Threat Detection and Analysis: Identify and analyse threats to WPP's infrastructure, resources, and services
• Reporting: Produce detailed threat intelligence reports for internal stakeholders, such as security incident response and threat hunting team
• Collaboration: Maintain strong links with internal security functions, key stakeholders within Enterprise Technology and other relevant departments
• Research: Conduct research on cyber threat trends, including malware, vulnerabilities, and indicators of compromise (IOCs)
• Intelligence Requirements Management: Assist in the continuous review and management of the Intelligence Collection Plan and its associated Intelligence Requirements
• Enhancing Security Posture: Provide analysis to improve the overall security posture, including hardening defences and implementing protection mechanisms
• Threat Landscape: Maintain awareness of the current threat landscape
• Contextualising Data: Review, analyse, and contextualize complex threat intelligence data for broader business consumption

What you'll need:

• Certifications in security (i.e. GCTI, GREM, GCFA, GCIH) desirable but not essential
• Degree or equivalent (i.e. MBA) desirable but not essential
• Comprehensive knowledge about vulnerability and security policies such as ISO standards
• Operational experience as a threat intelligence analyst, with good working knowledge of security incident response
• Hands-on experience with dark web analysis, including the associated tooling and adversarial slang
• Solid understanding of supporting frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, LM Cyber Kill Chain, IA Diamond Model, etc.
• Knowledge of supporting processes, like DFIR, Threat Hunting, Malware Analysis and red/purple team exercises
• Knowledge of threat intelligence tooling, both commercial and open source
• Understanding of Security Operations and supporting functions, technologies and methodologies
• Ability to document findings into reports that can be understood across all levels of the organisation
• Strong presentation and communication skills, both verbal and written
• Working knowledge of threat hunting

Who you are:

You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures for our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: We are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?

WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability. We believe in creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion and strives to recruit a diverse slate of candidates to help us achieve that goal.