Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst

• Stay up to date with technology trends, malware and cyber attacks related to an assigned tactical topic.
• Perform open source intelligence (OSINT) collection and analysis, identifying indications of cyber threats, malicious code, malicious websites, and vulnerabilities.
• Identify credible, new intelligence, and subject matter resources relative to current and emerging threats. 
• Analyze, process, and compare data to produce intelligence products.
• Author assessments on cyber threats, attacks, and incidents of interest to American Express.
• Create written and verbal intelligence products for internal American Express customers to assist in proactively addressing threats.
• Develop and present key findings to senior leadership. 
• Provide subject matter expertise on cyber threats to support current analytic operations and initiatives.
• Work with third parties developing shared intelligence.
• Demonstrate professionalism and excellent communication skills when representing American Express in third-party relationships.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Must have strong verbal and written communication skills, interpersonal collaborative skills, and the ability to communicate security and risk-related concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to review information to determine its significance, validate its accuracy and assess its reliability.
• Good knowledge of common security controls, detection capabilities, and other practices and solutions for securing digital environments.
• This knowledge should, preferably, include an understanding of packet flows, TCP and UDP traffic, firewall and proxy technologies, anti-virus, intrusion detection and prevention systems, as well as other host-based monitoring, email monitoring, and anti-spam technologies.
• Understanding of what information or assets are of value to threat actors and how organizations are breached.
• Working knowledge in one or more of the following areas:
• Nation State Threat Actors
• Cyber Crime
• Extremist Groups and Cyber Terrorists
• Hacktivism
• Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
• Fraud
• Malware
• Emerging Threats
• Social Engineering
• Experience working in one or more of threat intelligence, security operations, or forensics.

DESIRABLE KNOWLEDGE / SKILLS / EXPERIENCE

• Experience in analyzing malware, hacking tools, and threat actor tactics, techniques and procedures to characterize threat actors’ technical methods for accomplishing their missions.
• Understanding of modern technical security controls (i.e. firewalls, SIEMs, IPS, HIPS, web proxies).
• Can apply a variety of structured analytic techniques to generate and test a hypothesis, assess cause and effect, challenge analysis, and support decision making.
• Basic understanding of forensic analysis on and data captures from networks (packet capture), hosts (volatile/live memory), electronic media, log data, and network devices in support of intrusion analysis or enterprise level information security operations.
• Previous experience as a Military Threat Operations team member, Security Researcher, Cyber Threat Researcher, or Cyber Crime Investigator.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience preferred.

Why American Express?

There’s a difference between having a job and making a difference.

American Express has been making a difference in people’s lives for over 160 years, backing them in moments big and small, granting access, tools, and resources to take on their biggest challenges and reap the greatest rewards.

We’ve also made a difference in the lives of our people, providing a culture of learning and collaboration, and helping them with what they need to succeed and thrive. We have their backs as they grow their skills, conquer new challenges, or even take time to spend with their family or community. And when they’re ready to take on a new career path, we’re right there with them, giving them the guidance and momentum into the best future they envision.

Because we believe that the best way to back our customers is to back our people.

The powerful backing of American Express.

Don’t make a difference without it.

Don’t live life without it.

A competitive benefits offering designed to support our employees’ total health and wellbeing, including:

• Health care scheme
• Defined contribution pension plan
• Dental scheme
• Virtual GP
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Core holiday allowance with opportunity to buy or sell additional days
• A range of flexible benefits to choose from designed to suit your lifestyle: healthcare plan options, health assessments, critical illness coverage, cycle to work, season ticket loans
• Employee Discount Portal
• Back up childcare/adultcare
• Onsite facilities include; Fitness classes, Health Checks, Digital Health Kiosk, Physiotherapy, Healthy Living Nurse, Wellness Studio, Costa Coffee and subsidised staff restaurant

To complete your application please click on the links below. However, if you require any assistance with the completion of this process – or need any reasonable adjustments to be made – then please contact the Recruitment Team on recruitment.support.uk@aexp.com or 00800 83 000038 (for Russia based candidates 810 800 83 000038).