Principal Threat Researcher

2 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Palo Alto Networks Full time
Company Description

Our Mission
At Palo Alto Networks everything starts and ends with our mission:
Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before.

We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we're looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback - it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It's been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values.

We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.


Our Approach to Work
At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions.

This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective.

This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together

Job Description:

Your Career


As a Principal Threat Intelligence Analyst within the Unit 42 Threat Intelligence team, you will bring expert knowledge of cyber threats across various domains such as cyber-crime, nation-state, and cloud, to name a few.

You will be responsible for staying current on global threats to various industries and identifying emerging trends in threat data to address requests for intelligence from internal and external stakeholders.

You will document and communicate these findings in multiple formats to ensure threat intelligence data influences other areas inside and outside Unit 42.

You will be a clear self-starter who understands how to complete high-level tasking and uses your knowledge and skills to meet goals and deadlines.

In addition to day-to-day research efforts, you will also shine in quick turnaround research efforts to support high-visibility, world-on-fire major cyber events.

Consistent collaboration with other researchers and teams will be necessary for your success in this role.

Your Impact

  • Demonstrate expertise in collecting and analyzing threat intelligence data across all categories of cyber threats
  • Document and communicate emerging threats, trends, and their potential impact
  • Translate threat intelligence collection into a format tailored to our customer needs
  • Be able to communicate an adversary's actions based on attack frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK
  • Conduct pivot analysis using both closed and opensource datasets across the entire threat landscape
  • Be able to conduct quickturnaround threat analysis and feedback support for urgent requests for intelligence
  • Clearly communicate and deliver threat intelligence knowledge in verbal and written formats to technical and nontechnical audiences
  • Enhance knowledge of cyber threats to multiple stakeholders during major cyber events in written and verbal formats
  • Demonstrate thought leadership across Unit 42 by bringing new threat research to the table
  • Foster strong collaboration with key stakeholders across different functional teams

Qualifications:

Your Experience

  • 8+ years experience in threat intelligence focused on a variety of threats including but not limited to ransomware, nationstate, cybercrime, supplychain/3rd party risks, cloud, mobile, dark web, offensive security, and insider threats
  • Expert understanding of the adversary's attack lifecycle, TTPs, and highfidelity indicators of compromise
  • Experience with tools for data analysis, such as passive DNS, network infrastructure analysis, and hostbased information analysis
  • Proven communicator and collaborator with all levels of the organization
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Clear ability to lead tasks/projects independently and provide recommendations for process improvement
  • Proven record as a problem solver in complex and often ambiguous situations
  • Drive to overcome the most challenging obstacles and look for ways to improve results
  • Ability to understand and assimilate different points of view, manage time, and prioritize work based on project needs and deadlines
  • Ability to adapt to changes in a growing team
Helpful Additional Experience

  • Ability to interpret and action internal and external reports
  • Ability to conduct research on the dark web with appropriate levels of OpSec
  • Knowledge of scripting languages to facilitate data collection and analysis
  • Has served as a mentor or team lead
  • Experienced public speaker at large industry confere

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