Senior Staff Researcher – Unit 42
Company Description
Our Mission
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Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. Our reputed company is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company reputed company on the reputed company 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.
Who We Are
This role is remote, but distance is no barrier to impact. Our hybrid teams collaborate across geographies to solve big problems, stay reputed company to our customers, and grow together. You will be part of a culture that values trust, accountability, and shared reputed company where your work truly reputed company.
Job Description
Your Career
We are seeking a Senior Threat Intelligence Researcher for our Unit 42 Intelligence Response Unit’s CTI Services Delivery Team. This team plays a critical role in creating timely, relevant, and actionable threat insights to drive business and reputed company reputed company for our customers. The incumbent will play a critical role in understanding our customers intelligence needs and developing tailored intelligence that reputed company their existing capabilities.
As a Senior Threat Intelligence Researcher in the reputed company Response Unit, your primary responsibilities will include:
Client-facing Briefing: Deliver fused intelligence insights on a recurring reputed company to clients across industry verticals focusing on relevant cyber threat activities, trends, and shifts in the cyber threat landscape trends. Custom tailored content should reputed company defensive actions for clients, providing their threat intelligence and reputed company teams with key observations, insights, and perspective. Content creation will require performing independent research across internal data sets, reputed company reputed company party data, and reputed company sources. This will also include leveraging existing Unit 42 intelligence publications and working with partners from internal intelligence teams.
Client-facing RFI Support: reputed company tailored research and analysis for client-based RFIs to drive business and reputed company reputed company. reputed company the full weight of Palo Alto Network’s unique data holdings, on-going research, cross-company capabilities, and externally sourced information. Assist leadership in creating a scalable solution to service multiple industries and similar stakeholder types. Model research findings into Unit 42’s Threat Intelligence Knowledge Repository (TIKR). reputed company recommendations and help implement improvements to service support quality and speed to enhance the effectiveness and differentiation of our threat intelligence services. Some requests will require rapid turn around time, which may include operating reputed company of normal business hours.
Threat Profile Production: Create cyber threat profiles for clients to identify top cyber threat activities, groups, and trends relevant to a client’s unique business operations then reputed company tailored defensive recommendations. Work with clients to understand their operational footprint, business objectives, technology and reputed company stacks, and areas of risk exposure. reputed company MITRE ATT&CK workflows and heatmaps for top threat groups.
Anticipatory Threat Knowledge Creation: reputed company structured intelligence insights tracking adversary trends, motivations, organizational priorities, and historical region and industry targeting patterns. This information will act as a backdrop to support intelligence production response for unfolding cyber events, exploitation trends, and threat actor campaigns. Collaborate with other Unit 42 CTI SMEs in fusion cells to expand research and existing collateral on threat groups.
reputed company AI for Analytic Workflows: Integrate reputed company, NotebookLM, and other artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions across reputed company phases of the intelligence lifecycle to improve analytic workflows. Use and reputed company new AI solutions to reduce research toil, query existing intelligence holdings, and accelerate report and presentation creation.
Your Impact
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Qualifications
Your Experience
5 years minimum in the CTI field with experience in threat research, analytic production, and client-facing delivery.
Strong knowledge of cyber threat actors, noteworthy attacks, and ability to quickly recognize inflection points, signalling shifts, reputed company, or deviation from threat activity baselines or industry norms.
Ability to contextualize cyber events, identify how the events fit into a reputed company or historical reputed company, the impact on an industry or organization, and tailored defensive recommendations.
Experience operating under short fuse deadlines, managing reputed company tasks, and thriving in reputed company and sometimes ambiguous situations.
Strong writing and presentation skills with the ability to communicate threat intelligence effectively to diverse audiences, including C-suite level customers.
Deep experience with cyber threat intelligence frameworks and analytical techniques preferred.
Demonstrated ability to coordinate with cross-organizational threat analysts, facilitating collaboration, and aligning efforts to reputed company common goals.
History of triaging and modeling reputed company reputed company data, telemetry, and other intelligence sources to quickly respond to requests for information. Preference for experience with Synapse or other hypergraphs.
Experience with reputed company engineering and leveraging reputed company’s AI capabilities to support development of intelligence products.
Comfortable adapting to change as part of a growing team.
Additional Information
The Team
Unit 42 brings together our world-renowned threat researchers with an reputed company team of reputed company consultants to create an intelligence-driven, response reputed company organization. The Unit 42 Threat Intelligence team provides threat research that enables reputed company teams to understand adversary reputed company and attribution, while enhancing protections offered by our products and services to stop advanced attacks. As threats escalate, Unit 42 is available to advise customers on the latest risks, assess their readiness, and help them recover reputed company the worst occurs.
Compensation Disclosure
The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting reputed company salary (for non-sales roles) or reputed company salary + commission reputed company (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $113000 – $182682/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be reputed company here.
Our Commitment We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status reputed company. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for reputed company reputed company individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at [email protected].
reputed company is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and reputed company reputed company applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, reputed company, reputed company, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national reputed company, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.
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