Principal Security Analyst

2 weeks ago

Sandton, South Africa HR Genie Full time

**Our Client a Global tech firm is seeking a Principal Security Analyst - Microsoft Security to join their team in Sandton. They offer stability, growth, attractive salary, excellent benefits and a great working environment.**
**Description**

The Security Principle Analyst works within the Security business unit and deals with the most complex security and cyber threats. The primary responsibility of this position is to research and identify potential threats and vulnerabilities in order to minimise the window of attach and limit the amount of time an adversary must gain access to the network before they are discovered.

The Security Principle Analyst works within the Security business unit and defines the strategy and operating model for dealing with complex cyber security threats. The primary responsibility of this position is to define the approach to dealing with Cyber Security risks both for our clients and internally for our client

The Security Principle Analyst will facilitate the access to tools and research through our partners to design and develop platforms, systems, and services that will assist in proactive identification of potential threats and threat actors in order to minimize the window of attack and limit the amount of time an adversary has to gain access to a networks before they are discovered.

Contribute to threat intelligence strategy

The Security Principle Analyst will play an important role in conceiving strategies for clients, planning the implementation of the strategy and delivering it. They use their creativity and intellectual rigour to assist with the development of the threat intelligence strategy that will drive the business to become proactive, focused and preventative. These individuals will embed the use of intelligence into core business by aligning the development of intelligence, threat feeds to formal decision making. This employee will measure the effectiveness of cyber hunting capabilities to ensure appropriate plans are in place to address lower performance and ineffective practices. These will include but are not limited to:

- Producing cyber threat intelligence
- Defining cyber security strategy for development
- Performing competitive analysis and comparison of threat intelligence, breach detection, and incident response solutions
- Providing input and expertise to product development lifecycle
- Thought leadership and innovation for future trends in cyber security
- Acting as the Clients representative Security Working Group for cyber security and threat intelligence
- Sharing both strategically and operationally
- Formulating the strategy and resultant roadmap for next generation RTM (Realtime Threat Management) including automation; vulnerability analysis and incident Response
- Develop relevant platforms, systems, and services
- The Security Principle Analyst will facilitate the design and development of platforms and systems that allow Security Analysts to produce intelligence outputs to provide an accurate depiction of the current threat landscape and associated risk through the use of client, community and open source reporting.
Ensure threat intelligence management
- The Security Principle Analyst puts in place programs that enable Security Analysts to collect, organize, analyses, interpret and summaries threat and vulnerability reports and data to provide actionable intelligence and situational awareness to decision makers. Together with our partners, the Security Principle Analyst will build a threat intelligence repository to understand threat actor tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP).
- **Behavioral skills**
- The Security Principle Analyst demonstrates strategic thinking ability and a good business understanding. They are thought leaders who are able to establish and advise on pre-emptive and practical plans to counter potential threats. They display critical thinking and contextual analysis ability and are proactive in their approach. These individuals demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills and the required interpersonal skills to engage with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
**Competencies**:
In this position you will be required to:

- Develop a threat intelligence strategy to support the business to become proactive, focussed and preventative and develop and implement appropriate plans to address lower performance and ineffective cyber hunting practices.
- Produce intelligence outputs, threat and vulnerability reports, data and actionable intelligence and situational awareness to facilitate decision making.
- Research and identify potential threats and vulnerabilities and develop action plans to counter emerging cyber intelligence threats.
- Produce threat warnings, real-time situational and predictive

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