Cybersecurity Threat Analyst

1 month ago


Reading, Reading, United Kingdom Proofpoint Full time
Job Title: Cybersecurity Threat Analyst

We are seeking a highly skilled Cybersecurity Threat Analyst to join our team at Proofpoint. As a Cybersecurity Threat Analyst, you will play a critical role in identifying, analyzing, and responding to email-based threats.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Analyze misclassified messages and update spam and malware definitions to correct their classifications.
  • Perform deep analyses of email headers, structures, and attachments to identify novel threat features and develop new rules/methods to detect them.
  • Research new trends and create proactive detection to stop new threats before they start.
  • Contribute to the development of new tools and automation to aid in front-line analysis and identify the latest threats.
  • Work with the team to come up with new and novel ways to detect threats.
  • Occasional on-call work, responding to high-priority alerts and monitoring essential systems.
  • Help define the landscape, prevalence, and evolution of messaging abuse, threats, and attacks by participating in future requirements definition discussions of our products.
Requirements:
  • Proficient oral and written communications skills.
  • Familiarity with using the Linux command line and tools for manipulating and extracting content from text files.
  • Good knowledge of regular expressions.
  • Familiarity with how mail delivery works, including SMTP.
  • General curiosity about the headers and structure of email messages.
  • Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills.
  • Willingness to interact with customers through our web-based ticketing system to help resolve their issues.
  • Ability to work independently but also to collaborate with worldwide, remote teams when needed.
  • Positive, friendly attitude that enjoys problem solving.
  • Familiarity with a scripting language such as Python or Perl is an advantage.
  • Previous experience in a customer-facing role such as technical support is an advantage.
Why Proofpoint:

At Proofpoint, we believe in protecting people and our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions is at the heart of our mission. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that values culture fit and culture-add, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation.



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