Description
Serving within the ZeroFox Public Sector Services (PSS) department as an Associate Intelligence Analyst, you will collect information to identify threats, and generate intelligence to assess risk in relevance to client needs. Intelligence activities can include researching current and emerging threats covering physical security, cyber security, reputation risk and compliance issues. The Associate Intelligence Analyst will have an investigative background and demonstrate exceptional analytic prowess in areas such as trend analysis and pattern recognition, using independent critical thinking and judgment to act, lead, initiate and/or recommend next steps. Discretion, teamwork, and creativity are a must.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Learn and employ ZeroFox patented technology to identify and analyze relevant information collected from the Internet, based on client-specific criteria, to assemble relevant findings for weekly intelligence reporting and real-time escalation to the customer.
- Assist in customer care and all production aspects covering the range of assigned duties. Lead on the creation of weekly deliverables that consist of:
- Direct/Indirect Threats found through manual threat hunting according to a curated threat term list.
- Triage of alerts that are generated through the ZeroFox Platform.
- Weekly physical security/travel reports for high ranking officials.
- Proactive manual threat hunting on a daily basis through the use of OSINT skillset.
- Support collection enhancement with ongoing and proactive collaboration with Collection Management.
- Attention to ongoing trends, events etc. related to the customer to alert the customer.
- Pursue professional development through company training, industry certifications, and seek new opportunities to maintain and grow relevant knowledge and skill sets.
- Identify and communicate enhancement opportunities and improvement ideas.
Requirements
Qualifying Requirements:
- Minimum of 2-3 years' experience in open source intelligence (OSINT) and social media research, or investigations. Ability to connect the dots;
- Experience in conducting person of interest investigations in a fast paced environment.
- Background within executive travel protection, physical security protection or related area.
- Creativity in leveraging internet search techniques and methods;
- Ability to determine the credibility, value, significance, and relevancy of information from different data sources to produce clear, concise, and timely analytical products;
- Strong written and oral communication skills; comfortable with providing briefings and presentations.
- Experience producing short and long form reports,
applying BLUF or similar models;
- Comfortable working independently and in teams;
- Experience with some of the following: Social Media Platforms, blogs, IRC, Deep/Darkweb and message boards;
- Ability to collect, authenticate, validate and document online evidence;
- Proficient with at least one online investigative tool, such as Whois, Ping, Traceroute, etc;
- Proficient in Google Suite of programs;
Preferred Experience:
- Public sector and/or law enforcement experience as an analyst, researcher, investigator or consultant supporting a security, risk or due diligence function;
- Previous experience working in the federal space;
- Experience with SAAS based platform;
- Experience in conducting studies and making recommendations to identify threat vectors, threat actors, and threat trends;
- High degree of knowledge of Social Media Platforms, blogs, IRC, message boards, Deep/Darkweb;
- Possession of excellent project/team leadership, contributing to satisfactory performance outcomes, skills development, and successfully maintaining effective client relationship skills;
- Knowledge and familiarity with relevant threat landscapes or industry practice areas such as cybercrime, online fraud, physical/corporate security, hacktivism, reputation risk, travel security, geopolitical or policy issues;
Education / Training Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Some college course on cyber security, intelligence studies, and homeland security
Benefits
- Community-driven culture
- Generous time off
- Comprehensive health benefits & 401(k) plan
- Respectful and nourishing work environment, where every opinion is heard and everyone is encouraged to be an active part of the organizational culture
