Advanced Insider Threat Sr. Specialist

Bank of America • Charlotte, NC

15d

About The Position

This role is responsible for assessing the bank's technologies, applications, and overall security controls to identify potential nation-state insider threat risks and vulnerabilities that may impact Bank of America's information security. Key responsibilities include developing a better understanding of Bank of America's Global Information Security policy and relevant cyber security threats to complete security assessments. Job expectations include developing technical subject matter expertise to support partners, and adapting testing methods to emerging cyber security regulations and evolving threats. The individual will serve as a liaison with Human Resources, Internal Enterprise Investigations, Compliance and Employee Relations-related investigations; ensuring effective support of these cases, as well as developing and ensuring ongoing and strategic engagement and routines with key stakeholders. The individual will have accountability for evolving our support model, including automation opportunities and thematic analysis and collaboration to drive control additions and improvements where needed. The individual will demonstrate extraordinary organizational and cross-functional collaboration skills to drive analytics and investigations to threats throughout the Enterprise.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience working counterintelligence investigations with demonstrated knowledge in identifying, detecting, and mitigating nation-state cyber threats and hostile nation state threat actors
• 5-7 years of relevant work experience leading teams and conducting intelligence analysis involving complex threats from nation state actors.
• Demonstrated ability to identify, analyze and address cyber security issues or threats, including emerging tactics or techniques
• Proficiency with executive-level tracking and reporting, including expertise in Jira and Excel
• Must be comfortable presenting to a wide spectrum of individuals having varying degrees of technical understanding
• Strong program management skills
• Ability to work independently with little oversight managing multiple investigations simultaneously
• Demonstrated vendor management skills
• Strong communication, writing and analytical skills along with problem solving and conceptual thinking skills.
• Extensive knowledge of all domains within Information Security
• Expertise in insider threat and associated risk detection and mitigation practices
• High proficiency with forensic tools (ENCASE), CrowdStrike and other similar investigative and/or monitoring tools
• Direct experience working with very large datasets and log analysis tools including but not limited to: Splunk, Python, SQL
• Correlation analysis of existing case types and escalations
• Excellent organizational skills to manage caseload, projects and ad hoc requests
• Familiarity with participating in and driving incident response events
• Demonstrated ability in applying strong critical‑thinking skills to strategize, innovate, and develop creative solutions to complex problems in fast‑paced environment
• Ability to resolve issues with minimal negative impact and risk to the organization
• Must have extensive knowledge of all steps of the intelligence process and demonstrated ability to transform raw data into actionable cyber risk mitigation outcomes

Nice To Haves

• At least 10+ years of experience working with classified/sensitive information
• At least 10+ years of experience working national security threats within the law enforcement/intelligence community
• Experience in the remediation of information security risks/vulnerabilities
• Credibility necessary to establish relationships and lead collaborative exchanges with peer financial institutions and US Government Agencies.

Responsibilities

• Assesses systems controlling access to bank resources for compliance to security policies and controls by utilizing external threat frameworks, internal threat intelligence, and systems documentation
• Analyzes, improves, implements, and executes security controls proactively to identify risks of state-sponsored threat actors accessing associates, resources, or intellectual property
• Engage with senior leaders across the enterprise; collaborate with data science, threat research, Cyber Threat Hunt Intelligence and Defense teams to identify opportunities to build and respond to nation-state directed insider tactics and techniques
• Developing and documenting new and innovative insider hunt hypotheses to increase the team’s ability to find existing insider threats
• Leverages risk management practices, and internal escalation processes to document findings for remediation
• Monitors new threats and complex attempts to compromise security controls while developing a deep expertise in the early lifecycle for security techniques to identify vulnerabilities before they present a risk to the bank
• Develops strong internal and external partnerships by demonstrating operational expertise as a subject matter expert in counterintelligence matters
• Navigates and works effectively, including organizing response, communication plans, and executive updates, across a complex, geographically dispersed organization and team

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed