Cybersecurity Threat Researcher (Hybrid)

Responsibilities:

• Analysing trends and patterns in large data-sets to establish threat trends across regions, industries and business segment sizes.
• Have a passion for cyber security and thrive on solving difficult and complex problems.
• Have a genuine interest in mitigating phishing attacks and be familiar with recent vulnerabilities in our space.
• Investigate phishing emails and have an understanding of Malware Analysis (Configuration of isolated Malware Analysis VM, Identification of File Formats, Basic Static & Dynamic analysis)
• Experience with Threat Actor Tools and techniques
• Enjoy sharing their knowledge and working with team members and external stakeholders.
• Ability to communicate threat knowledge in a customer facing environment
• Assist and enable various departments within KnowBe4 with Threat Intelligence
• Triage, investigate, and respond to alerts coming in from the Knowbe4 email platform efficiently and without support.
• Independent research projects to contribute regularly to external-facing Knowbe4 Threat Labs content, such as blogs

Requirements:

• BS or equivalent plus 3 years experience
• MS or equivalent plus 1 year experience
• Well versed with IOCs, reverse engineering and threat campaign tracking
• Experience in malicious URL and phishing Email analysis
• Familiarity with Python automation preferred
• Experience in customer-facing environments
• Experience with triaging complex customer queries.
• Experience with databases (SQL or MQL) preferable