Threat Intelligence Analyst
Springfield, Massachusetts; Boston, Massachusetts; New York, New York
Overview
A career with us means you’ll help our customers secure their future and protect the ones they love. It also means you’ll work alongside exceptional people and be empowered to reach your professional and personal goals. Our employees are at the foundation of what makes MassMutual a strong, stable, and ethical business.
Our culture embodies the idea that we all are stronger and better through our support for one another. By valuing people for who they are, how they think, and what they bring to the table, we’ve become a better, more innovative company.
We invite you to explore the possibilities.
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Job Description
The Opportunity
We’re growing, and our clients deserve the best. As a Threat Intelligence Analyst you will have the opportunity to work in a thriving and robust environment across multiple specialty areas by analyzing cybersecurity information, investigating cybersecurity incidents and events, and protecting & defending against threats to MassMutual's digital assets. You will do this by producing actionable intelligence with a heavy focus on automation of processes. In this role, as well as all roles within MassMutual, you will demonstrate accountability, agility, a dedication to being inclusive, a strong business acumen, and will show courage, even in the most difficult situations. We also highly value strong communication skills, a passion for learning, leadership traits, resilience and self-awareness.
The Team
The Security Intelligence Team at MassMutual consists of multiple functions which are strategically aligned to manage the cyber threats that the company faces. The threat intelligence function analyzes the threat landscape and provides actionable intelligence to the organization. Our offensive security function simulates tactics techniques and procedures used by threat actors and proactively tests MassMutual’s controls. Our penetration testing, bug bounty and responsible disclosure function assesses our applications to make sure they are secure in both pre and post-production environments.
The Impact
Below are the lists of tasks candidates will be able to perform, knowledge you should have, and skills & abilities that you can bring into our Threat Intelligence role!
Responsibilities
- Analyze Threat Trends in order to recognize and research various threat actor groups, attack patterns, tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs), indicators of compromise (IOCs) and attack vectors for an end-to-end understanding of threat landscape.
- Monitor and report changes in threat dispositions, activities, tactics, capabilities, objectives, etc. as related to designated cyber operations warning problem sets.
- Provide information and assessments to inform leadership and customers; develop and refining objectives; support operation planning and execution; and assess the effects of operations.
- Assess the effectiveness of collections in satisfying priority information gaps, using available capabilities and methods, and adjust collection strategies and collection requirements accordingly.
- Create threat models both manually and via the use of industry tools.
- Develop specific cybersecurity countermeasures and risk mitigation strategies for systems and/or applications.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree
8+ years in Cyber security
2+ years experience in evaluating, analyzing, and synthesizing information and large quantities of data, (which may be fragmented and contradictory) into high quality, fused targeting/intelligence gaps
Preferred Qualifications:
- Cybersecurity certification like GCTI, GCFA, CCTHP.
- A sitting member of the FS-ISAC TIC.
- Cyber security experience including but not limited to the following:
- Risk/threat assessment.
- System and application security threats and vulnerabilities (e.g., buffer overflow, mobile code, cross-site scripting, Procedural Language/Structured Query Language [PL/SQL] and injections, race conditions, covert channel, replay, return-oriented attacks, malicious code).
- Attack methods and techniques (DDoS, brute force, spoofing, etc.).
- Cyber attack stages (e.g. reconnaissance, scanning, enumeration, gaining access, escalation of privileges, maintaining access, network exploitation, covering tracks).
- Understanding of cloud technologies.
- Ability to automate processes using python and other programming/scripting languages.
- Can provide intel as a service simultaneously to multiple customers.
- Able to write (and submit) requirements to meet gaps in technical capabilities.
- Can use penetration testing tools and techniques.
- Able to share meaningful insights about the context of an organization's threat environment to improve its risk management posture.
- Ability to function in a collaborative environment, seeking continuous consultation with other analysts and experts—both internal and external to the organization—to leverage analytical and technical expertise.
- Can develop or recommend analytic approaches or solutions to problems and situations for which information is incomplete or for which no precedent exists.
- Able to coordinate, collaborate and disseminate information to subordinate, lateral and higher-level organizations.
- Prior experience teaching and mentoring others in security threat intelligence.
- Effectively communicate complex information, concepts, or ideas in a confident and well-organized manner through verbal, written, and/or visual means.
What to Expect as Part of MassMutual and the Team
- Regular meetings with the Security Intelligence Team
- Agile scrum meetings, as appropriate, to track and drive individual and team accountability.
- Focused one-on-one meetings with your manager.
- Access to mentorship opportunities
- Networking opportunities including access to Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, African American, women, LGBTQIA+, veteran, and disability-focused Business Resource Groups
- Access to learning content on Degreed and other informational platforms
- Your ethics and integrity will be valued by a company with a strong and stable ethical business with industry leading pay and benefits
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If you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us and share the specifics of the assistance you need.
MassMutual will accept applications on an ongoing basis until such time as a candidate has been offered employment.
Salary Range: $131,100.00-$172,000.00
Hiring Process
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Award-Winning Culture
MassMutual is guided by a single purpose: We help people secure their future and protect the ones they love. As a company operated for the benefit of our members and participating policyowners, we are defined by mutuality and our vision to provide financial well-being for all Americans. It’s more than our company structure—it’s our way of life. We are a company of people protecting people. Our company exists because people are willing to share risk and resources and rely on each other when it counts.
We strive to embrace diversity in every sense, focusing on building a thriving community where everyone is valued, included, and feels that they belong.
At MassMutual, we Live Mutual.
Benefits for the whole you (and your loved ones)
There’s more to your life than your job and there’s more to your aspirations than a paycheck. We take a holistic view of compensation and benefits that provides the flexibility to create a healthy balance in your life for work, family, and community. We offer the benefits you’d expect, like medical, dental, 401(k), and generous vacation time, but we also offer ones you might not expect, like three paid days for volunteering, a $1250 annual wellness wallet, and up to 320 hours of caregiver leave.
Explore some of our offerings below. Full benefits details can be found here.
- In addition to generous vacation time, paid holidays, and flexible holidays, MassMutual offers 'take care' time to take care of yourself or someone you love—whether for physical illness or mental health.
- Medical and dental insurance
- Life, disability short-term and long-term insurance
- Well-being wallet: $1,250 per year for a wide range of qualifying wellness expenses
- Well-being support: Mindfulness, nutrition, fitness
- Personalized mental health solutions
- Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement programs
- Competitive salary and bonuses
- 401(k): Up to 10% total benefit, consisting of a 5% company match and a 5% annual contribution
- Educational assistance program
- Childcare support
- Financial counseling
- Caregiver Leave (up to 320 hours)
- Maternity Leave (a total of 18 weeks, 10 maternity + 8 parental)
- Parental Leave (8 weeks for all parents, birth or adoption, continuous or intermittent)
- Bereavement Leave: Up to 15 days to mourn the loss of a loved one, and you define 'loved one'
- Matching Gift: 100% match on employees’ charitable contributions to non-profits up to $5,000
- Volunteering: Three paid days for employees to volunteer with eligible nonprofits of their choice
- Matching time: MassMutual Foundation awards dollars to organizations for which employees volunteer
- Qualified Commuter Program through which eligible employees can pay qualified workplace commuting expenses with before-tax dollars
- Commuter wallet option for employees based at Boston and NYC campuses
Why MassMutual?
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How we work
MassMutual’s flexible workplace approach combines the importance of connecting in person and the flexibility of working remotely. Our hybrid model puts collaboration first with employees coming in at least three days per week to our spectacular campus settings and also enjoying the flexibility of remote Fridays, company-wide remote weeks, and a bank of flexible remote weeks to use throughout the year.
Where we work
Springfield Office
1295 State Street,
Springfield, MA
Boston Office
10 Fan Pier Blvd,
Boston, MA
New York Office
2 Park Ave,
New York, NY
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