Role summary
Responsible for analysing data collected from cyber defence tools to detect and mitigate cyber threats, performing vulnerability and risk assessments of systems and networks, measuring effectiveness of defence-in-depth architecture against known vulnerabilities, and executing cybersecurity compliance and risk assessments on new systems and services.
Responsibilities
- Analyse organization's cybersecurity defence policies and configurations to evaluate compliance with regulations and organizational directives
- Correlate incident data to identify vulnerabilities
- Carry out vulnerability scanning on systems and assets and recommend corrections
- Use cybersecurity products and security control technologies to reduce identified risk
- Maintain a deployable cyber defence audit toolkit based on industry best practice
- Escalate incidents that may cause immediate or ongoing impact
- Analyse and report on trends in the organization's security posture and cyber defence trends
- Correlate information from multiple sources to understand situation and determine attack effectiveness
- Perform cybersecurity reviews and identify security gaps in security architecture
- Conduct authorized attempts to penetrate computer systems, networks, and physical premises using realistic threat techniques
- Prepare cybersecurity assessment and audit reports identifying technical and procedural findings with remediation strategies
- Identify indications and warnings through research, analysis, and correlation across multiple data sets
- Assist in the construction of signatures for implementation on cybersecurity network tools
- Provide summary reports of network events and cybersecurity-relevant activities in line with organizational policies
- Recommend cost-effective security controls to mitigate identified risks
- Use security testing and code scanning tools to conduct code reviews
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering or related field
- Minimum 3 years' experience in cybersecurity field
- Technical aptitude
- Knowledge of security across various platforms
- Fundamental computer forensics skills
- Understanding of hacking
- Problem-solving skills
- Communications and presentation skills
- Planning and organising capabilities
- Judgement and analysis abilities
- Attention to detail
- Desire to learn
Education
Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering or related field
Experience
Minimum 3 years' experience in cybersecurity field
Skills
- Cyber defence tool usage
- Incident data analysis
- Vulnerability scanning
- Risk assessment
- Cybersecurity compliance
- Penetration testing
- Computer forensics
- Technical aptitude
- Multi-platform security knowledge
- Problem-solving
- Communications and presentation
- Planning and organising
- Judgement and analysis
- Attention to detail
Education · Experience · Type
Bachelor'sRequires 3+ yearsSalary not stated