Description
The Cybersecurity Exercise Analyst designs, develops, facilitates, and evaluates cyber exercises, working with various technology and cyber security defense teams across the enterprise. Exercise planners will assess the current level of resilience for applications hosted within the client and hosted/provided via third parties.
- Will identify cyber risks, design threat scenarios, identify key stakeholders and participants, and execute the exercise against the planned scenarios.
- Exercises range from discussion-based to operations-based exercises, to include range-based exercises.
This is a Contract to Hire opportunity that will have a hybrid schedule - onsite twice a week in downtown Toronto.
Requirements
- Have a foundational understanding of information technology and security concepts
- Have a foundational understanding of exercise and test concepts used to evaluate staff skill levels, operational risk and security effectiveness
- Ability to capture actions taken by the exercise participants through direct observation, monitoring of communications between participants and direct interaction with participants. Analyze the data and provide realistic and insightful conclusions
- Ability to design executive level summaries aimed at driving action and demonstrating success
- Have a strong sense of teamwork that enables you to work with peers and various levels of management
- Effective written and oral communication skills in both group and individual settings
- Ability to facilitate and control a room of people and guide them through the exercise in order to achieve the goals
- Proven record of being able to navigate successfully across organizational lines
- Ability to communicate threat actor techniques, tactics and procedures (verbal and written) with executives and stakeholders in non-technical terms while accurately encompassing risk, impact likelihood, containment and remediation activities
- Excellent organizational and analytical skills with an ability to prioritize conflicting tasks and handle multiple work efforts in a fast-paced environment
- Experience in an operations focused Information Security role
- Familiarity with network security vulnerabilities, exploits and attacks
- Have a foundational understanding of range technology and exercise concepts used to evaluate participating teams
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field
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