Principal Threat Intelligence Consultant

Description

GuidePoint Security's Research & Intelligence Team (GRIT) performs the following:

• Threat Intelligence as a Service
• Threat Intelligence Maturity Assessments
• Malware Analysis
• Proactive Threat Discovery and Threat Hunting
• Purple Team Exercises (as Blue Team in collaboration with GuidePoint Red Team)
• Threat Research

As a Principal GRIT Consultant, you will be a technical resource that leverages your knowledge, skills, and experience to help deliver results to clients in various sectors as well as helping to lead the GRIT team.

Role Requirements

Your primary responsibilities revolve around solving challenging and complex problems and include helping customers reach their goals with Threat Intelligence. In that effort GRIT strives to either offer Threat Intelligence as a Service or help the client mature their program to meet their goals, including providing workshops and documentation. Additional duties with this role include researching the latest threats, providing malware analysis support, giving threat briefs to customers and senior leadership, and assisting the DFIR team on an as needed basis.

GuidePoint Security's GRIT service offerings are perpetually evolving in response to emerging threats and diverse client needs, and your creativity and expertise will assist the GRIT Practice with adapting to this rapidly changing environment. Primary Duties will include:

• Operate as a technical resource within the Practice and actively participate in DFIR investigations to provide actionable intelligence.
• Mentor junior analysts and provide leadership.
• Effective engagement communication, time management, and collaboration with peers.
• Author comprehensive engagement deliverables that are tailored to both technical and managerial audiences as well as fully detail the technical findings, recommendations, business impact, and realistic remediation strategies.
• Foster client relationships by providing support, information, and guidance.
• Utilize automation, orchestration, and scripting to reduce manual processes, improving overall efficiency while also enabling new capabilities to meet the rapidly changing needs of our clients.
• Contribute to integration of existing and future open-source and commercial tools to help improve GRIT processes and procedures.
• Perpetually strengthen relevant skills, knowledge, and abilities to stay at the forefront of the information security industry.
• Maintain a strong desire to learn, adapt, and improve along with a rapidly-growing company.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience

Essential Qualifications

• Five (5+) years of experience performing Threat Intelligence analysis.
• Five (7+) combined years of IT and information security experience.
• Embraces emerging technologies, including AI tools, to work smarter, solve problems, and drive better business outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in a Consulting Services role.
• Experience implementing or improving operational processes or procedures in the intelligence analysis lifecycle.
• Proficiency hunting APT data using open source or commercial cyber threat analytic tools or d