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Threat and Vulnerability Analyst
| Posting date: | 24 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £31,443 to £41,150 per year |
| Additional salary information: | London: £35,008 to £41,150 / National: £31,443 - £37,100 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 June 2024 |
| Location: | Birmingham |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 355555/3 |
Summary
You will be helping to protect DBT and the wider UK government from cyber threats in a fast paced and exciting role. Reporting and acting as the main support to the Senior Cyber Threat and Vulnerability Analyst and Principle Cyber Threat and Vulnerability Manager. The Threat and Vulnerability Analyst will work with other members of the SOC and technical teams to execute operational threat and vulnerability management activities and help shape the development of DBT’s TVM program and capabilities. A healthy curiosity will be essential, to actively go out and discover items of potential interest to the team
Main responsibilities
You will be:
- Supporting scoping and delivery activities of penetration tests, vulnerability assessments of IT assets, and other tests to assess the robustness of a system, product, or technology
- Structured Threat Hunting through proactively identifying and leveraging threat intelligence sources to inform threat and vulnerability mitigation measures.
- Conducting deep-dive analysis on potential threats and attacks against DBT and sharing actionable threat intelligence data with other SOC members and technical teams.
- Working with key stakeholders to create and drive prioritisation of tracked vulnerabilities to meet common organisational objectives such as policy compliance.
- Disseminate and apply DBT’s vulnerability ratings to externally rated vulnerabilities to help the department prioritize remediation.
- Continuously research and investigate new and emerging vulnerabilities including Zero Day events, and participate in external security communities, sharing findings across the security functions.
- Develop and maintain a good understanding of DBT’s Information Security Framework and industry best practice.