Job Title: Vulnerability Management Analyst
As a key member of our SOC team, you will play a crucial role in protecting SMBC Group's networks, applications, and infrastructure from cyber threats. You will leverage your passion for Cybersecurity to ensure vulnerability remediation activities are effective and efficient, and that we keep pace with the rapidly changing threat landscape.
The Vulnerability Management team is responsible for identifying, analyzing, mitigating, and reporting on vulnerabilities. Our goal is to take a proactive and risk-based approach to identifying and addressing gaps within SMBC to protect the Bank's network and data from a cyber-attack and safeguard its reputation and customer trust.
In this role, you will be responsible for configuring scans, researching the latest threats, conducting risk assessments, coordinating remediation of identified risks, and reporting on compliance levels and opportunities for improvement across the enterprise. Due to the rapidly growing technological footprint and threat landscape, this role requires a quick learner who is proactive, diligent, and organized.
Key Responsibilities:
* Triage vulnerability alerts from security tools, external intelligence providers, penetration tests, and user-reported findings to assess impact to the organization.
* Configure network, infrastructure, and/or application vulnerability scans and policy checks, and conduct manual testing as needed to validate findings.
* Liaise with various business units to conduct vulnerability assessments, consult on risk reduction strategies, and supervise remediation such that vulnerabilities are addressed within required timelines.
* Conduct attack surface risk modeling and articulate high-risk areas to stakeholders in collaboration with Threat Intelligence and Threat Hunting functions.
* Assist in production of periodic vulnerability management reports and statistics for management.
* Tune vulnerability management tools to increase coverage, reduce false positives and false negatives, and improve processes.
* Liaise with Optimization team to set up detections and mitigations i.e., Intrusion Prevention Systems, ensuring we have signatures in place to protect us from relevant threats.
* Support a culture of continuous improvement by proactively investigating new risks and opportunities to strengthen Bank's security posture.
Requirements:
* 2+ years of security, IT, compliance, audit, risk management, consulting, or application development experience.
* Bachelor of Information Technology, Computer Science, or similar preferable.
* Strong understanding of MITRE ATT&CK framework.
* In-depth knowledge of network and web-based attacks.
* Diligent, proactive, and strong attention to detail.
* Ability to work with large datasets, multi-task, and effectively prioritize tasks.
* Strong critical analysis and problem-solving abilities.
* Strong interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal).
* Ability to multi-task and remain productive in a service-driven and results-oriented environment.
* Demonstrated strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
* Ability to script tasks and automate processes is a plus.
* Working knowledge of cloud technologies and containerized environments is a plus.