Threat Actor Engagement & Intelligence Consultant
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GuidePoint SecurityCybersecurity
Remote (Anywhere in the U.S.)Full-TimeMiddle
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Job Details
- Experience
- 2 - 4 years prior experience in communicating with threat actors; Two (2+) years of experience performing Threat Intelligence analysis and/or collection
- Required Skills
- Scripting
Requirements
- Have 2–4 years of experience communicating with threat actors, such as through virtual persona operations, ransomware negotiations, or sock puppet accounts in Deep and Dark Web collection.
- Have at least 2 years of experience performing threat intelligence analysis and/or collection.
- Have experience in intelligence-sharing relationships and partnerships within the private sector, ISACs, government, and/or private intelligence-sharing groups.
- Have experience building and developing persona operations, including familiarity with dark web forums and marketplaces, adversary behavior, and trust mechanisms.
- Be familiar with digital forensics and incident response workflows, processes, and deliverables.
- Have experience in client-facing, professional services, or consulting roles.
- Have experience using emerging technologies, including AI tools, to work smarter and solve problems.
- Be able to support a rotating on-call schedule, including possible weekend work.
- Preferred: familiarity with cryptocurrency tracing and blockchain technology.
- Preferred: experience implementing or improving intelligence lifecycle processes or procedures.
- Preferred: proficiency hunting APT data with tools or repositories such as VirusTotal, Passive Total, Threat Miner, or Maltego.
- Preferred: experience scoping and conducting threat research on cybercrime, ransomware, and/or nation-state cyber operations.
Responsibilities
- Lead threat actor communications engagements and advise clients, legal counsel, and insurance carriers on risks, benefits, and considerations.
- Participate in DFIR investigations as a technical resource and identify actionable intelligence.
- Build client relationships through effective communication, time management, collaboration, support, and guidance.
- Author engagement deliverables for technical and managerial audiences, detailing findings, recommendations, business impact, and remediation strategies.
- Use automation, orchestration, and scripting to reduce manual processes and improve efficiency.
- Contribute to integrating open-source and commercial tools and automation into GRIT processes.
- Strengthen relevant skills and knowledge to keep pace with the information security industry.
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