Threat Intelligence Analyst (Junior)

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Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) is recruiting nation-state threat hunters – with threat intelligence analysis skills. MSTIC provides unique insight on threats to protect Microsoft and our customers and is responsible for delivering timely threat intelligence across our product and services teams.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

• Technical knowledge of adversary capabilities, infrastructure, and techniques that can be applied to define, develop, and implement techniques both to discover and track the adversaries of today and identify the attacks of tomorrow.

• Experience tracking APT adversaries leveraging the Diamond Model to identify and characterize various TTPs, capabilities, infrastructure, and operational campaigns

• Experience producing actionable threat intelligence on targeted and advanced persistent adversaries.

• Knowledge of common data types used in threat intelligence analysis, including malware used in targeted adversary campaigns; host and log forensics, including methods of data collection and analytic techniques; and network forensics, including common protocols and how those are used in adversary operations.

• Experience supporting incident response and familiar with common incident response procedures, processes, and tools is a plus.

• Comfortable presenting your findings internally and externally, can elevate what is significant to an audience, and leans into preparing analysis to support these efforts.

• Ability to identify a problem and work with your manager to develop a solution that drives impact across their team or throughout MSTIC.

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• As a Junior Threat Intelligence Analyst, you will be responsible for identifying and tracking sophisticated adversaries by using your technical knowledge of adversary capabilities, infrastructure, and techniques.

• You will define, develop, and implement techniques to discover and track current adversaries and identify the attacks of tomorrow.

• You will produce actionable intelligence and proactively drive hunting, detection and Microsoft's threat actor understanding.

• In this role you will collaborate with stakeholders from MSTIC and key security groups across Microsoft, working in partnership with them to protect both Microsoft and Microsoft’s customers.

• You will strengthen existing partnerships and contribute to building new ones with key organizations to deliver benefits to Microsoft and its customers.

• Communicating effectively your analysis and potentially sensitive threat intelligence to a wide variety of partners, customers and audiences in public forums.