Senior Cybersecurity Defence Analyst

Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Analyse organization's cybersecurity defence policies and configurations to evaluate compliance with regulations and organizational directives.
• Correlate incident data to identify vulnerabilities.
• Carry out vulnerability scanning on systems and assets and recommend corrections for the environment.
• Use cybersecurity products and security control technologies to reduce identified risk to an acceptable level.
• Maintain a deployable cyber defence audit toolkit based on industry best practice to support cyber defence audits.
• Escalate incidents that may cause immediate or ongoing impact.
• Analyse and report on trends in the organization's security posture, systems' security posture and cyber defence trends.
• Correlate information from multiple sources to understand situation and determine the effectiveness of an observed attack.
• Perform cybersecurity reviews and identify security gaps in security architecture to inform risk mitigation strategies.
• Conduct authorized attempts to penetrate computer systems or networks and physical premises, using realistic threat techniques, to evaluate their security and detect potential vulnerabilities.
• Prepare cybersecurity assessment and audit reports that identify technical and procedural findings and include recommended remediation strategies and solutions.
• Identify indications and warnings through research, analysis, and correlation across multiple data sets.
• Assist in the construction of signatures for implementation on cybersecurity network tools to respond to new or observed threats within the environment.
• Provide summary reports of network events and other cybersecurity-relevant activities in line with organizational policies and requirements.
• Recommend cost-effective security controls to mitigate risks identified through testing and review.
• Use security testing and code scanning tools to conduct code reviews.