Senior Intelligence Analyst II

Flashpoint is the pioneering leader in threat data and intelligence. We empower commercial enterprises and government agencies to decisively confront complex security challenges, reduce risk, and improve operational resilience amid fast-evolving threats. Through the Flashpoint Ignite platform, we deliver unparalleled depth, breadth and speed of data from highly relevant sources, enriched by human insights. Our solutions span cyber threat intelligence, vulnerability intelligence, geopolitical risk, physical security, fraud and brand protection. The result: our customers safeguard critical assets, avoid financial loss, and protect lives. Discover more at flashpoint.io

Are you a Senior Intelligence Analyst who enjoys leveraging open source intelligence to produce analytic reports, briefings, and tactical alerts in a fast-paced, product-driven environment? As a member of the Corporate Security Intel team, you will support a major global supply chain customer providing intelligence for a wide range of threats.

We have a role for you if, you:

• effectively execute on tasks and responsibilities independently, while collaborating with other team members on more complex tasks

• have experience tracking cybercriminal, hacktivist, and/or state-sponsored malicious cyber campaigns and mapping the activity to the Mitre ATT&CK framework

• have a strong ability to produce accurate analysis and key judgments for inclusion on finished intelligence reports.

• possess a high level of motivation, positive attitude, and a strong willingness to be a self-starter and learn new skills.

• have strong communication and presentation skills and a willingness to use these skills to communicate ideas, findings, and analysis to wider audiences.

What you will get to do on our team:

• Collaborate with our internal teams and customers to proactively identify threats to reduce risk to client businesses, networks, and operations

• Leverage your expertise to produce high-quality tactical and strategic assessments, communicating potential risks and their impact through concise written analysis and compelling visual presentations, directly informing decision-makers.

• Utilize Flashpoint's cutting-edge proprietary tools and external data sources to synthesize critical information, enhancing analysis and alerting

• Synthesize raw data to identify the credibility of information, deduce relevance to the client, and nominate new collection sources in support of Flashpoint collections.

• Develop keywords/patterns to highlight high signal data for cyber threats, including supply chain attacks, emerging threats, and zero-day vulnerabilities.

• Help protect Flashpoint customers by providing critical intelligence on data breaches and threat actor activities, supporting mitigation efforts, including domain takedown requests, to protect brand reputation and counter sophisticated threats.

• Research and provide intelligence on technical indicators that could signal a cyber attack.

• Provide weekly reporting to customer stakeholders, including the customer leadership team and technical leaders.

• Understand and articulate security safeguards while safely navigating virtual environments to support assigned tasks.

What you will achieve

• Within 30 days

• You will have been fully onboarded and integrated into a team of professional intelligence analysts and assigned a mentor to guide you through your initial journey at Flashpoint. Your team will have provided you with accesses, resources, and training necessary to begin tackling deliverables.

• Within 60 days

  • You will have completed onboarding and familiarized yourself with internal team operations.

  • You will have developed a robust understanding of customer intelligence requirements and initiated relevant research related to delivery of client deliverables.

• By 90 days

  • You will have carried out your own investigations in support of intelligence requirements and drafted and published the findings from these initial investigations within Flashpoint intelligence platform.

  • You will have become familiar with teams outside of your own team and begun building working relationships to assist you become successful in your career.

  • You will have become completely comfortable with handling day-to-day deliverables and tasks on your own and become confident in your abilities to work independently or on a team.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Experience in cyber threat intelligence, threat research, or threat hunting, actively keeping up with the latest threats

• Strong analytical and writing skills, with the ability to rapidly and accurately break down technical topics and effectively assess and communicate risks and potential impacts to a wide variety of audiences

• Exposure to risks facing large corporations and defensive measures employed to mitigate them

• Experience sifting through large amounts of data to identify threats

• Proficient in utilizing open source command line tools, internally built tools, or external industry standard tools to find relevant data or risks

• Familiarity with Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) and mitigation strategies to protect client networks from them

• Engage security community to assist in proactive disruption of malicious infrastructure affecting client operations

• Translate customer intelligence requirements into an action plan for identifying threats and risks to their organizations

• This position requires working hours aligned with the Central Time Zone.

Why Flashpoint is a Great Place to Work:

• Diversity.  Flashpoint is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, inclusion, belonging, and equity. We recognize that diversity is key to achieving our vision. We believe that every person and their experiences contribute to building a work environment and products and services that will change the world.

• Culture and Belonging.  Our company’s culture isn’t something you join, it’s something you build and shape, and each person's unique backgrounds and experiences contribute to who Flashpoint is and will become.  You will have ample opportunities to connect with coworkers through various communication channels and company-funded virtual events: book clubs, happy hours, committees, DIBE discussion group, Donut mixers, local team member meetups and much more. 

• Perks. Flashpoint understands that personal wellness is one of the keys to a happy, healthy and productive work environment.  That’s why we also prioritize health and wellness perks like gym reimbursements, expensed lunches, cool cultural initiatives and inclusive employee events.

• Career Growth. Flashpoint is invested in the growth of our team members and understands that frequent, two-way feedback is critical to that growth. We encourage regular one-on-ones with your manager, a regular schedule of performance reviews, learning and development opportunities, and guidance through formalized career paths; whether that be towards being a great manager, being a great individual contributor, or a lateral move to gain breadth of knowledge and experience.

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