Cyber Security Monitoring and Threat Detection Specialist

1 month ago

Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Department for Work and Pensions Full time
Job Summary

You will work as part of the Department's Cyber Resilience Centre (CRC) as a Threat Detection Analyst in the Cyber Security Monitoring & Investigations team. Your role will be to secure the DWP IT Estate, ensuring service delivery is not affected by potential malicious activity from internal or external threats.

Key Responsibilities
  1. Provide a second-tier escalation function for the resolution of security events, providing direction and guidance, and ensuring an effective response to alerts and risks as they are identified.
  2. Undertake comprehensive investigation of security alerts and proactive analysis of activity captured in system logs and security tools, to quickly determine if systems have been compromised.
  3. Support Intelligence Analysts and the Security Incident Response Team, by providing detailed technical input to ongoing investigations, building on detailed log data, digital outputs, and threat intelligence in relation to the mitigation, detection, and response to potential cyber-attacks.
  4. Effectively use the latest analytical SIEM tools, including open-source intelligence, to identify security compromises within large amounts of complex data.
  5. Use digital forensic and malware analysis tools (commercial and/or open source) to support analysis and decision-making.
  6. Demonstrate strong knowledge of the latest security threats and indicators of compromise to ensure a robust response to new threats and attack vectors.
  7. Provide timely intervention to protect the DWP IT Estate through recommending and operating containment processes to isolate and prevent the spread of malware.
  8. Drive forward the development of monitoring systems and supporting processes and playbooks, ensuring systems are in place to review and continually improve existing capabilities.
  9. Ensure intelligence is effectively used to maintain the integrity of alerts and to ensure alerts continue to remain relevant and focused on the latest threats.
  10. Develop influential relationships with key stakeholders across the Department to support improvement activity, thereby mitigating the risks from malicious activity.
  11. Demonstrate strong knowledge and understanding of the concepts of information security, and of current and emerging IT security, data protection, and information risk principles and technologies.
  12. Support the transformation of the Department's response to digital delivery and the security threats this presents, including operating new analytical tools to generate innovative security alerts.
  13. Support remedial activity as a result of identified weaknesses within the estate.
  14. Manage multiple priorities and respond flexibly to competing demands.
Person Specification

A strong candidate will be able to demonstrate the following essential criteria:

  1. Experience of performing in-depth analysis of cyber security alerts to quickly determine if systems have been compromised.
  2. Skilled in using a variety of the latest SIEM/network analysis tools and of proactively interrogating large data sets of structured and unstructured data, to identify malicious activity or anomalous behaviour.
  3. Comprehensive knowledge of tactics or techniques an adversary could use to bypass or evade security controls, and an understanding of how to mitigate such activities so that they could be detected.
Benefits

We offer a range of benefits, including:

  • Learning and development tailored to your role
  • An environment with flexible working options
  • A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

We are committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues, an inclusive and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society we serve.

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