Threat Intelligence Analyst

Job purpose

Liberty Global is one of the world’s leading converged video, broadband and communication companies, with operations in six European countries under the consumer brands Virgin Media, Telenet and UPC.

In addition, Liberty Global owns 50% of VodafoneZiggo, a joint venture in the Netherlands with 4 million customers subscribing to 10 million fixed-line and 5 million mobile services, as well as significant content investments in ITV, All3Media, ITI Neovision, LionsGate, Formula E racing series and several regional sports networks.

The Threat & Vulnerability Management team proactively gathers information on potential threats against Liberty Global in order to deploy countermeasures and detection capability. It also provides expertise in supporting the resolution of advanced or complex security threats against Liberty Global, and acts as a point of escalation.

The Threat Intelligence Analyst role will strengthen the Threat Intelligence program by collecting, processing, analyzing and disseminating actionable intelligence.

Key Accountabilities

• Collection of information to address the most important intelligence requirements.
• Analysis of information into intelligence that allows stakeholders to make informed decisions
• Sharing of threat intelligence focusing on these key areas :
• Incident Response
• Security Operations
• Vulnerability Management
• Security Leadership
• Fraud Prevention

• Threat Intelligence Analysis

• Gather feedback from the main stakeholders to make sure you understand their current intelligence requirements and adjust any processes.

• Manage the initial analysis of intelligence correlations and proactively hunt for internal threats, including insider threats.
• Assist in running a threat intelligence platform that can store cyber threat intelligence idioms such as threat actors, exploit targets from disparate sources, devices, communities and industries in a structured & standardized way.
• Reporting - write and present security reports to the stake holders in an automated but human readable or visual way.
• Identify intelligence trends, patterns and behaviors to provide business focused actionable intelligence.
• Evaluate and triage threats highlighted through Intelligence tooling and escalate to appropriate stakeholders.
• Conduct Dark web investigations and OSINT gathering for key stakeholders.
• 3rd party liaison – The individual must create partnerships with security teams in governments or other industries, putting them in a position to share intel and be able to receive early signals that could affect Liberty Global. Also they must be prepared to represent Liberty Global at offsite meetings, conferences or work on a temporary basis in these environments.
• Broader overall security related responsibilities as part of a cutting-edge security team.

Knowledge & Experience

Basic Qualifications

• Background in technical investigations, open-source intelligence collection, experience operating in the deep/dark web, and account take-over.
• Strong technical and analytical security skills required and a minimum of 5 years security experience, ideally in a capacity where incident detection and response formed a key part of the role(s) played.
• Must have in-depth understanding of the intelligence lifecycle and experienced in gathering across tactical, operational and strategic intelligence arenas.
• Self-starter, takes initiative and is self-motivated; Takes ownership of problems, evaluates and recommends resolutions and sees through to completion.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Desirable Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Experience in presenting findings and making recommendations at a senior management level.
• Experience in working with a wide range of stakeholders in the context of improving security.
• Scripting and development of small tactical software solutions desirable.
• Experienced with Digital Shadows and Threat Quotient tooling desirable.