Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist

4 weeks ago


Chicago, Illinois, United States Bank of Montreal Full time

About the Role:

The Threat Intelligence & Analytics team is part of the BMO Financial Crimes Unit, which brings together Enterprise capabilities in Cybersecurity, Fraud, and Physical Security into a fully integrated and centralized function.

This team is responsible for tactical cyber threat analysis and partnerships with the Hunt team, SOC, detection team, and other cyber stakeholders.

A successful candidate will have a great mix of cyber security threat hunting experience, technical capabilities, and strong communication skills.

They will work collaboratively within multi-disciplines teams to research, analyze, and create actionable plans to share with internal and external stakeholders to protect customers and employees.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Tracks trends and bad actors in assumed breaches
  • Performs security gap analysis and assessments
  • Supports SOC operations
  • Analyzes actor profiles, develops detections
  • Develops tactical reporting and/or presentation decks for senior management
  • Reviews and analyzes network logs, performs scripting
  • Gathers requirements and documents these requirements for use in various audits, reports, and projects
  • Identifies opportunities to strengthen the capability of the information security organization at BMO
  • Analyzes data and information to provide insights and recommendations
  • Collects, organizes, analyzes, and disseminates significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
  • Develops and implements data collection systems and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and data quality
  • Identifies, analyzes, and interprets trends or patterns in complex data sets
  • Recommends approaches to streamline and integrate information security processes in the organization to improve overall efficiency

Requirements:

  • Post-secondary degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Systems
  • 3+ years of experience in Threat Hunting or 5+ years in Cyber Security with a high concentration of threat hunting
  • Data manipulation and analysis skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
  • Familiarity with DataIQ tool
  • Excellent understanding of SDLC, Information Technology domain, SQL Server, API
  • Proficient with scripting languages, particularly Python, as well as proficiency with JSON, YAML
  • Familiarity with Machine Learning tools for pattern recognition and anomaly detection, developing heuristics
  • Very good understanding of collection tools (EDR, SIEM), Elastic Search
  • Well-versed with cyber frameworks (OSINT)
  • Certified OSCP, OSCE is nice to have
  • Experience in the Financial Industry is nice to have

About BMO:

BMO is committed to an inclusive, equitable, and accessible workplace. By learning from each other's differences, we gain strength through our people and our perspectives.

BMO is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. To request accommodation, please contact your recruiter.



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