Threat Intelligence Lead (Position located in Arlington, Virginia)

The Threat Researcher Lead works in the KnowBe4 Threat Research Lab, and is responsible for leading teams to understand the cyber threat landscape in order to enable KnowBe4’s capabilities across business functions. This involves researching criminal TTP’s and ensuring KnowBe4’s solutions are effective in mitigating these threats. Additionally using this intelligence to further all business goals.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of researchers to deliver on research projects and unlock additional revenue for the business, through providing cyber expertise.
• Independently and competently analysing trends and patterns in large data-sets to establish threat trends across regions, industries and business segment sizes.
• Have a passion for cyber security and thrive on solving difficult and complex problems.
• Have a genuine interest in mitigating phishing attacks and be knowledgeable with recent vulnerabilities in our space.
• Experienced in investigating phishing emails and malware analysis (Configuration of isolated Malware Analysis VM, Identification of File Formats, Basic Static & Dynamic analysis)
• Experience with Threat Actor Tools and techniques.
• Enjoy sharing knowledge and help to upskill and educate team members
• Experience in translating technical terminology to brief external stakeholders.
• Experience in handling internal stakeholders.
• Assist and enable various departments within KnowBe4 with Threat Intelligence.
• Experience at communicating Threat knowledge in a customer facing environment.
• Triage, investigate, and respond to alerts coming in from the Knowbe4 email platform efficiently and without support.
• Independent research projects to contribute regularly to external-facing Knowbe4 Threat Labs content, such as blogs.

Qualifications

• BS or equivalent plus 5 years experience
• MS or equivalent plus 4 years experience
• Minimum of 2 year experience in a management role
• Well versed with IOCs, reverse engineering and threat campaign tracking
• Extensive experience in malicious URL and phishing email analysis
• Familiarity with Python automation
• Strong experience with public speaking
• Strong experience in customer-facing environments
• Strong experience with triaging complex customer queries.
• Strong experience with cross-functional work, working closely with other departments
• Experience with database (SQL or MQL) preferable