A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long?term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. IBM Consulting Cybersecurity Services works with clients in providing trusted partnership to improve their security posture in an ever-changing threat landscape. We are in an era of advanced cybersecurity threats. These threats are persistent and continuously evolving. We are seeking highly talented candidates to fill client focused consulting led Security intern roles. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve Cybersecurity in the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat. As part of IBM’s Cybersecurity Services team, you will work with subject matter experts and clients as they transform organizational security. We’re driven by more than just providing security solutions for organizations. We want our clients to succeed. IBMer’s can access our entire organization to develop original ideas that help clients create the world they imagine.
IBM X-Force is looking for a Cyber Threat Intelligence Consultant to join their CTI Services team. The candidate will provide industry-leading threat intelligence services across several security domains in an exciting and growing security delivery organization within IBM.
The primary responsibility of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst is to collect and evaluate dark web research and analysis. The analyst will collect, process, analyze, and disseminate cyber warning assessments based on dark web, open-source, and closed forum research related to the client. In addition to the technical skills required to perform their duties, the analyst is also expected to have a high level of understanding of the threat intelligence culture and possess the ability to verbally present to a client or other audience on those topics. Some examples of this are knowledge on criminal marketplace & forum actors, APT groups, nation state actors, zero-day threats, bad actor motivations, and overall threat landscape.
The Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst will also work with teams internal and external to IBM X-Force to support the intelligence needs of the organization, foster collaboration, and promote IBM’s thought leadership in the cyber security space. The Cyber Threat Intelligence will be involved in the development of content for internal and external publications, to include: research papers, blogs, and the X-Force Threat Index.
The Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst role will occasionally travel for training, conferences, or client engagements.
- Develop and disseminate cyber warning assessments.
- Develop unique cyber indicators to maintain constant awareness of the status of the highly dynamic operating environment for clients.
- Takes a proactive approach to learning about the latest threats, threat actors, tactics, techniques and procedures, and malware.
- Demonstrates and provides subject matter expertise of the threat landscape including, but not limited to cyber-attack vectors, threat actors, security trends, and security policies, and recommendations in both the government and commercial space.
- Ability to deliver high quality written technical assessments of threats.
- Performs multiple assigned technical tasks including research, analysis, solution design, development, product installation, system integration, and possibly root cause analysis of the advisory system when required.
- Has IT Security Industry experience, work regularly with client teams to develop requirements, plan, design, and generate a solution that meet the client security needs. This often includes using tools and methods to analyze, design, and implement client solutions.
- Has enhanced professional, operational, and inter-personal skills to function effectively in collaborative high stakes and high stress situations with clients.
- Provides analytical ability and creativity necessary in developing and implementing solution deliverables for medium size projects or components of a larger project.
- Provides business or technical advice to managers, as well as give consulting, project management or technical direction to team members and/or client personnel. May lead a team on small projects or a segment of larger projects.
- Assists in the balancing of project management or technical work assignments with team members’ skills to mitigate risk on the project/engagement/proposals.
- Possesses strong verbal communication skills to deliver strategic, tactical, and operational intelligence to audiences with varying degrees of technical knowledge.
- Has experience conducting and correlating threat research using OSINT, incident response engagement data, and proprietary tools, performing threat modeling, and producing intelligence threat assessments.
- Reviews technical literature prepared by other staff members for content, coverage, and clarity.
- Ability to assume additional responsibilities as assigned.
- Experience in applying knowledge of information security best practices, threat intelligence research and compromising techniques.
- Technical writing experience
- Basic knowledge of networks and operating systems (Windows, Linux).
- Knowledge or experience in one or more of the following Security Domains: Incident Response, Digital Forensics, Tabletop Exercises, Threat Hunting, Cloud Platforms