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Role Snapshot
Cybersecurity Threat Researcher at KnowBe4, a global leader in Human Risk Management, responsible for researching and analyzing emerging cybersecurity threats including AI-powered and deepfake threats to support the company's HRM+ platform.
Job Description
KnowBe4 empowers the modern workforce to make smarter security decisions every day. Trusted by more than 70,000 organizations worldwide, KnowBe4 is the pioneer of digital workforce security, securing both AI agents and humans. The KnowBe4 Platform provides attack simulation and training, collaboration security, and agent security powered by AIDA (Artificial Intelligence Defense Agents) and a proprietary Risk Score. The platform leverages 15-years of behavioral data to combat advanced threats including social engineering, prompt injection, and shadow AI. By securing humans and agents, KnowBe4 leads the industry in workforce trust and defense.
To learn more about our team and office culture in England (UK), visit the following links.
Careers Page: https://www.knowbe4.com/careers/locations/york
Glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.com/Location/KnowBe4-York-Location-EI_IE969384.0,7_IL.8,12_IC3297365.htm
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/knowbe4/life/uk/
The Threat Intelligence Analyst works in the KnowBe4 Threat Research Lab, and is responsible for deploying and configuring various security products and solutions such as endpoint, email, web and network protection.
Responsibilities:
- Analysing trends and patterns in large data-sets to establish threat trends across regions, industries and business segment sizes.
- Have a passion for cyber security and thrive on solving difficult and complex problems.
- Have a genuine interest in mitigating phishing attacks and be familiar with recent vulnerabilities in our space. Investigate phishing emails and have an understanding of Malware Analysis (Configuration of isolated Malware Analysis VM, Identification of File Formats, Basic Static & Dynamic analysis)
- Enjoy sharing their knowledge and working with team members and external stakeholders.
- An understanding and experience with Threat Actor Tools and techniques: (MITRE ATT&CK Framework, PowerShell & Command Prompt Terminals, WMIC, Scheduled Tasks, SCM, Windows Domain and host Enumeration Techniques, Basic Lateral Movement Techniques, Basic Persistence Mechanisms, Basic Defense Evasion Techniques, other offensive/Red Team TTPs)
- Triage, investigate, and respond to alerts coming in from the Knowbe4 email platform efficiently and without support.
- Contribute regularly to external-facing Knowbe4 Threat Labs content such as blogs.
Requirements:
- BS or equivalent plus 3 years experience
- MS or equivalent plus 1 year experience
- Well versed with IOCs, reverse engineering and threat campaign tracking
- Experience in malicious URL and phishing Email analysis
- Script enabled for scripting automations (Python) for handling huge volumes of threat artifacts like files, emails, URLs etc
- Experience with public speaking and triaging complex customer queries.
Our Fantastic Benefits
Note: An applicant assessment and background check may be part of your hiring procedure.
Individuals seeking employment at KnowBe4 are considered without prejudice to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please visit www.knowbe4.com/careers/request-accommodation.
No recruitment agencies, please.