At PwC Global, our people in cybersecurity focus on protecting organisations from cyber threats through advanced technologies and strategies. They work to identify vulnerabilities, develop secure systems, and provide proactive solutions to safeguard sensitive data. Those in information security at PwC Global will focus on protecting sensitive data and systems from cyber threats through risk assessments, security audits, and implementing robust security measures. Your work will help enable the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets for clients.
The Opportunity:
As a Threat Intelligence Analyst, Global, unlock your potential and embrace the chance to drive meaningful outcomes that’ll elevate your career. Your role will include, but isn’t limited to:
- Ability to work autonomously and take ownership and initiative on tasks; delivery of meaningful outcomes as delegated with little to no oversight.
- Possessing highly effective oral and written communications, presentation skills and interpersonal abilities; ability to prioritize and execute in a methodical and disciplined manner.
- Demonstration of desire and willingness to learn and improve.
- Analyzing incidents, attributing incidents to threat types and intrusion sets, extracting intelligence from incident data and malicious code, and supporting incident response.
- Identifying, prioritizing, and reporting on external cyber threats relevant to an organization's industry, and geographic and technological footprint.
- Generating, consuming, and exploiting tactical and operational threat intelligence to protect against cyber threats; seeking new, and validating existing, sources of threat intelligence.
- Reporting findings to multiple levels of management across cultural and geographic boundaries, as well as functional teams impacted by cyber threats.
- Possessing knowledge of basic intelligence models (e.g., the Intelligence Lifecycle, intrusion kill chain, diamond model, analysis of competing hypotheses, and related structured analytic techniques); applying structured analytic techniques (e.g., analysis of competing hypotheses
- Displaying an understanding of malware reverse engineering tools and techniques; understanding forensic analysis tools and techniques.
- Providing structured analysis, prioritization and reporting of a cyber adversary's intent, opportunity and capability; providing tactical, operational and strategic recommendations for preventative controls to other security organizations based upon incident response findings and trends in realized threat activity; writing intelligence reports (strategic, tactical, and/or operational).
What You'll Bring
Your skills, knowledge, and experiences are what set you apart. Here's what we look for:
- Foundational computing principles (e.g., networking, operating systems, and information security concepts)
- Threat intelligence platforms (e.g., ThreatQ, OpenCTI, MISP, etc.) and security information and event management (SIEM) platforms (e.g., Splunk, Elastic, etc.)
- Malware sandboxes and repositories (e.g., VirusTotal, VMRay, Hybrid Analysis, etc.) and detection development (e.g., Yara, KQL, Splunk, etc.)
- Open-source intelligence (OSINT) collection sources, tools, and analysis and Threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and development of threat characteristics into intrusion sets
- Various classifications of threats (e.g., ransomware and the cybercrime economy) or espionage-motivated threats and computer forensics and incident response
- Meta-analysis, data analysis, trend analysis, and data presentation and Malware reverse engineering fundamentals
- Command and control frameworks (e.g., Cobalt Strike, Sliver, etc.) and Programming (e.g., C, Python, Golang, Rust, etc.) and Application programming interfaces (APIs)
- Technology or information security principles, including a broad, high-level understanding of information security policy requirements and compliance, as well as current events within the cybersecurity space
- Navigation of global corporate environments and Business processes, particularly in the information security or information technology space
- The importance of knowledge sharing within a professional services environment
- PwC Canada is committed to cultivating an inclusive, hybrid work environment. Exact expectations for your team can be discussed with your interviewer
This position ensures continuity and upholds our standards of excellence following the departure of a valued team member.
The salary range for this position is $52,600 - $87,700. The posted salary range represents the expected hiring range for PwC locations in major city centres. Given our national recruiting approach, ranges may vary for positions in other locations. At PwC Canada, base salary is determined by your skills, experience, qualifications and work location. In addition to base salary, eligible employees may have opportunities to participate in variable incentive pay programs which are designed to reward individual and firm-wide achievements. We are committed to offering competitive compensation and adhere to all relevant pay transparency legislation. During the hiring process, our Talent Acquisition team will provide details about our comprehensive total rewards package.
Why you’ll love PwC
We’re inspiring and empowering our people to change the world. Powered by the latest technology, you’ll be a part of diverse teams helping public and private clients build trust and deliver sustained outcomes. This meaningful work, and our continuous development environment, will take your career to the next level. We reward your impact, and support your wellbeing, through a competitive compensation package, inclusive benefits and flexibility programs that will help you thrive in work and life. Learn more about our Application Process and Total Rewards Package at: https://jobs-ca.pwc.com/ca/en/life-at-pwc
PwC Canada acknowledges that we work and live across Turtle Island, on the land that is now known as Canada, which are the lands of the ancestral, treaty and unceded territories of the First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples. We recognize the systemic racism, colonialism and oppression that Indigenous Peoples have experienced and still go through, and we commit to allyship and solidarity.
We’re committed to providing accommodation throughout the application, interview, and employment process. If you require accommodation to be at your best, please let us know during the application process.
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in recruiting is just getting started, so we know you have questions about how and why we use it. At certain points during our recruiting process, we rely on AI to improve your experience. This could be during resume review or curating personalized job recommendations, asking you clarifying questions via a chatbot or during our interview scheduling to improve your experience. Our use of AI helps ensure we combat bias by evaluating candidates equally and fairly, without seeing identity information, such as your name, or gender for example). AI also helps us better predict successful hires by reviewing all applicants for a role and the relationship between your skills, experience and likely success at PwC Canada. While AI supports parts of our recruitment process, final hiring decisions always involve human review. For more information about our use and protection of your data, please refer to our Privacy Policy (https://www.pwc.com/ca/en/privacy-policy.html).
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