Cyber Intelligence Analyst is responsible for all sources of technical data collection and analysis in order to produce a common operating picture of intrusion or threat related activity. This includes developing and maintaining new technical and non-technical sources of information, threat research, threat profile development, analysis, briefings, and warnings.
- Continuously assesses and prioritizes information sources based on relevance, cost and effectiveness for the purpose of informing management of the highest quality and most actionable intelligence.
- Establishes and maintains industry partnerships within the security and financial sector to gain insight into significant shifts in government expectations, human behaviors and technology adoption that may pose business risk.
- Works with all available resources (including but not limited to: Development, IT Operations, Security and Business Units) to make strategic adjustments to the enterprise security posture.
- Establishes a threat modeling methodology to identify, classify, prioritize and report on enterprise threats using a structured approach to the Security Intelligence and Response Manager for briefings to Sr. Management and the Director of Systems Security and stakeholders on the overall Security position of Paychex.
- Aggregates and correlates cyber threat information to known vulnerabilities and assign to Vulnerability Management to remediate.
- Develops a portfolio of historical threat activity, trends and common attack vectors to predict and prevent future threats.
- Evaluates new equipment and methodologies and provide detailed reviews and recommendations to the Security Intelligence and Response Manager.
- Provides research for next generation traditional and non-traditional cyber threat methods, techniques and tactics specific to evolving IT infrastructures.
- Maintains familiarity with multiple operating systems in order to analyze malware static and dynamic behavior.
- Mentors junior team members on advanced data mining techniques and provide expertise when junior members require assistance.
