Threat Hunter / Associate Director, Threat hunter

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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Threat Hunter.

In this role, you will:

• Hunt for malicious or anomalous activity across the enterprise, using the various cybersecurity tools, platforms and capabilities available. Acting in co-ordination with GCO staff to lead the development and implementation of an advanced analysis and search capability focused on identifying potentially sophisticated APT and insider threat activities within the organisation.
• Leveraging a ‘cyber intelligence led approach’ to researching new and existing threat actors and associated tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs); developing a detailed understanding of their potential impact to the organisation, providing, developing and implementing recommended solutions for improving our defensive and detective capability.
• Collaboration with Cybersecurity functions, e.g. Red Team, Cyber-threat Intelligence to develop hypotheses for the detection and/or presence of new attack techniques and evasion methods.
• Coordinating threat hunting activities, leveraging intelligence from multiple internal and external sources.
• Reviewing incident and penetration testing reports and corresponding logs, to identify gaps in our detection capability and provide recommendations to improve them.
• Providing expert analytic investigative support on large scale and complex security incidents.
• Contributing to the continued evolution of hunting, monitoring, detection, analysis and response capabilities and processes
• Training, mentoring and inspiring colleagues across the function and strengthening Cybersecurity Operations capabilities.
• Collaborate with the wider Cybersecurity (and IT) teams to ensure that the core, underlying technological capabilities that underpin an effective and efficient operational response to current and anticipated threats and trends remain fit for purpose.
• Identify processes that can be automated and orchestrated to ensure maximum efficiency of Global Cybersecurity Operations resources.

To be successful in this role, you will:

• Excellent investigative skills, instinctive and creative, with an ability to think like the enemy.
• Strong problem-solving and trouble-shooting skills
• Deep knowledge of hacker culture
• Developed external peer network for sharing intelligence.
• Self-motivated and possessing of a high sense of urgency and personal integrity.
• Highest ethical standards and values.
• Excellent understanding of cyber security principles, global financial services business models, regional compliance regulations and laws.
• Excellent understanding and knowledge of common industry cyber security frameworks, standards and methodologies, including OWASP, ISO2700x series, PCI DSS, GLBA, EU data security and privacy acts, FFIEC guidelines, CIS and NIST standards.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Proven experience in identifying and responding to advanced attacker methodologies both within the corporate environment as well as external attack infrastructures, ideally with offensive experience and / or deception environment development (tripwire systems, honeypots, honey-token/accounts, etc.) using open source, vendor purchased and bespoke/in-house developed solutions.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India