Associate Threat Researcher

Fortra

2d • $65,000 - $85,000

About The Position

Whether you’re an experienced professional or just getting started, your contributions matter at Fortra. If you’re passionate about tackling meaningful challenges alongside talented team members committed to helping each other succeed, all while having lots of fun, we want to hear from you. We offer competitive benefits and salaries, personal and professional development opportunities, flexibility, and much more! As an Associate Threat Researcher, you will join Fortra’s Managed Threat Intelligence group, a world-class team focused on generating actionable threat intelligence findings for clients of Fortra Managed Services. With a core focus on email-based threats, account takeover attacks, and other digital impersonation fraud such as counterfeiting, this role helps Fortra clients fully understand the nature of the threats targeting them and provides critical intelligence to help clients most effectively prioritize aspects of their defensive posture.

Requirements

• 3+ years in security operations, or 1-3 years in intelligence analysis or investigative journalism.
• Strong understanding of social engineering techniques, phishing threats, and digital impersonation tactics.
• Fluent in reading web-based scripting languages including HTML, PHP, and JavaScript.
• Outstanding data analysis skills and experience with data analysis tools.
• Exceptionally strong analytical reasoning, problem solving, and decision-making skills.
• Experience analyzing email-based threats, including familiarity with SMTP and email header analysis.
• Exceptional research skills using both OSINT and private threat data.
• Experience querying both relational and non-relational databases.
• Experience with creating pattern matching signatures (Regex, YARA) and using querying languages (KQL, SQL).
• Ability to work independently and effectively as part of a remote team with minimal supervision.
• Relentless curiosity and desire to self-develop in order to keep up with the evolving threat landscape.
• Basic scripting knowledge, and a passion for automating routine or repetitive tasks.
• Experience analyzing web traffic using Wireshark, developer tools, or other mechanisms.
• Experience deobfuscating code to facilitate analysis.
• Able to effectively present analytical findings to a wide range of audiences.
• Able to effectively develop intelligence requirements to an RFI via interaction with stakeholders.
• This position requires proficiency in English to interact, support and/or provide services to non-French speaking customers, employees and/or partners inside and/or outside the province of Quebec.
• We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We do not require “Canadian work experience”; all relevant experience will be considered.

Responsibilities

• Actively research a variety of cyber threats using technical analysis techniques, data analysis, and both open-source and deep/dark web intelligence gathering.
• Participate in a peer review process of intelligence deliverables by providing notes and constructive feedback.
• Analyze threats to identify novel adversary capabilities, tactics, techniques, and procedures.
• Conduct data analysis to identify notable trends and activity groups in email-delivered, Account Takeover, and Digital Impersonation activity across the cybercrime ecosystem.
• Monitor previously identified activity groups over time to track activity and evolution in their behavior.
• Produce both long and short form finished intelligence products taking the form of threat reports, intelligence briefings, whitepapers, and RFI deliverables.
• Partner with Marketing and other content teams to translate intelligence findings into blog posts and other material demonstrating Fortra’s thought leadership.
• Engage with customers and internal stakeholders to conduct RFI intake briefings and communicate threat research findings. This will involve presenting findings to key stakeholders.
• Other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

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