Senior Threat Intelligence Researcher

Are you passionate about the changing threat landscape, love the challenge of understanding how the latest malware works, and can evangelize the risks and issues across a broad organization? Are you looking for a challenging leadership position that will allow you to shape the future of security across the internet? Do you thrive on working on a close-knit, highly-motivated team?
Come join Lancope’s threat intelligence team to help protect Lancope’s customers against cyber-attacks. The successful candidate will be part of a global team of security analysts focusing on the changing threat landscape and effect on Lancope’s customers. This position requires a professional with a strong security software and threat analysis background that is capable of identifying and establishing the relationships and processes within and external to Lancope to build an investigative threat research structure and flow. The team will source data across Lancope, i.e. internal product and traffic monitoring groups, as well as through external partner and qualified third-party relationships.
Primary Responsibilities
Senior Threat Intelligence researcher will be responsible for performing the following:

Create new first party Intelligence sources

Promote Lancope security thought leadership through media outreach and collaborative reporting

Source and analyze data from available product sources across Lancope as well as externally from partners or other qualified third-parties

Manage reporting and dissemination of security intelligence and research efforts

Monitor, identify, and respond to timely security events

Provide data driven insight for internal business intelligence and external communications with media, analysts and/or customers/stakeholders

Establish cross-departmental channels to facilitate collaborative research sharing for external reporting and internal business strategy

Liaise with key security initiatives and groups within the security industry to better establish Lancope as both a security thought leader and trusted partner

Help guide the development by working with product teams

Education and Experience
The ideal candidate for this role will be an experienced threat researcher or incident responder with a history of speaking and publishing on security. A researcher in this role should have a record of creating new research and presenting to industry groups as expert

10+ years direct and tightly integrated experience in security software industry

In depth understanding and knowledge of white hat through black hat security challenges

Proven ability to work with executives/media/journalists/analysts

Strong data analytic skills

Ability to solve complex problems independently

Strong written and oral communication skills

Ability to apply Threat Intelligence and manage numerous parallel activities

Experience in data mining and working with large, unfiltered data sets highly desirable

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