Job Title - Info Sec Analyst
Location – Toronto, ON
Job Description
Role Responsibilities:
- Monitor, triage, and assess incoming cyber threat intelligence emails, alerts, notifications, and reporting from internal and external sources.
- Conduct continuous cyber event monitoring and provide timely escalation of credible threats, indicators, and incidents to the Incident Response Centre (IRC) and relevant stakeholders.
- Monitor the cyber threat landscape to identify emerging threats, vulnerabilities, threat actors, campaigns, and trends that may impact client, its customers, or the financial services sector.
- Collect, correlate, and analyze threat intelligence to provide actionable insights supporting cyber defense, security operations, fraud prevention, and incident response activities.
- Assess threat actors, malware, ransomware activity, and adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to determine potential business impact and risk exposure.
- Produce high-quality intelligence reports, threat advisories, alerts, briefings, and situational awareness products for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Support incident investigations by providing intelligence analysis, threat context, attribution insights, and indicators of compromise (IOCs).
- Develop and maintain threat actor profiles, attack trend analyses, and sector-specific intelligence assessments.
- Collaborate with Security Operations, Incident Response, Fraud, Vulnerability Management, and other cybersecurity teams to enhance detection, response, and mitigation capabilities.
- Participate in intelligence-driven investigations, threat hunting activities, and post-incident reviews to identify emerging risks and improve defensive measures.
- Engage with industry partners, information-sharing organizations, and external intelligence providers to gather and share relevant threat information.
- Brief stakeholders and leadership on significant cyber threats, risks, and recommended courses of action to support informed decision-making.
- Contribute to the ongoing improvement of cyber threat intelligence processes, intelligence requirements, monitoring practices, and reporting standards.
Must Have Skills:
• At least 2 years of experience in cyber threat intelligence (primary) or cybersecurity operations, incident response, and other related fields
• Strong understanding of threat actors, attack trends, vulnerabilities, and the financial sector threat environment.
• Ability to analyze and contextualize cyber threat data from multiple sources.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Proven ability to produce clear, concise, and actionable intelligence products for diverse audiences.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and stakeholder engagement skills.
Nice to Have Skills:
• Splunk experience
• Experience with threat intelligence platforms (TIPs)
• Cybersecurity/critical infrastructure sector experience
• Relevant postsecondary
Dexian is a leading provider of staffing, IT, and workforce solutions with over 12,000 employees and 70 locations worldwide. As one of the largest IT staffing companies and the 2nd largest minority-owned staffing company in the Canada, Dexian was formed in 2023 through the merger of DISYS and Signature Consultants. Combining the best elements of its core companies, Dexian's platform connects talent, technology, and organizations to produce game-changing results that help everyone achieve their ambitions and goals.
Dexian's brands include Dexian DISYS, Dexian Signature Consultants, Dexian Government Solutions, Dexian Talent Development and Dexian IT Solutions. Visit https://dexian.com/ to learn more.
Dexian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.
Dexian will on request provide accommodation for disabilities to support your participation in all aspects of Recruitment, Assessment and selection process.
