Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection. 

Job Description

The Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst will be responsible for supporting the monitoring, collection, analysis, reporting, and assessment of impact for threat related data from vendors, internal sources, and open-source intelligence. Leveraging threat severity and risk, this individual will help drive timely reporting and mitigation by partnering with Incident Handling / Incident Response, Threat Hunting, Vulnerability Management, other departments within Allstate Information Security, and system/application owners. The role will be accountable for helping to research and compile reports and data on the state of the threat landscape and presenting that data to multiple levels of leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a threat intelligence SME in at least one of the following areas: malware analysis, exploit/vulnerability analysis, Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), digital forensics, incident handling, cybercrime.

• Support the Threat Management process providing guidance on improvements that can be made to the identification, assessment, and mitigation of threats to the environment.

• Collect, analyze, and assess technical (IOCs) and non-technical (HUMINT) threat, vulnerability, and security incident-related information made available from platform vendors, 3rd parties, and internal sources to help determine course of action for the Allstate environment.

• Partner with other security professionals to determine and implement mitigating controls.

• Generate ad-hoc and scheduled briefs, reports, whitepapers, and presentations on threats and associated activities necessary to protect the environment.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems or related field preferred.

• 5+ years’ experience in either threat management, security assurance, or related field.

• Familiar with industry standard security best practices and threat management processes including technical and non-technical reporting.

• Experience with threat research, threat indicator sharing (such as STIX/TAXII), vulnerability scanning tools (such as Qualys) and other security tools.

• Good knowledge of operating systems security (Windows, *nix).

• Understanding of secure network/systems configuration management.

• Understanding of networking concepts and devices (Firewalls, Routers, Switches, Load Balancers, etc.).

• Experience programming and scripting.

• Able to effectively work independently and in a team environment.

• Able to interact with all levels of management, business, and IT, and is required to act in a professional and …