Threat Hunter

-Job description

If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join Global Service Center (GSC) HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be. HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realis their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of **Cybersecurity Threat Hunter**

Sitting within the Monitoring and Threat Detection sub-function, the ‘Cybersecurity Threat Hunter’ role is primarily charged with proactively searching through the HSBC global estate for evidence of malicious activities in our systems and on our networks and finding ways to illuminate behaviours that have managed to evade current defences. Rather than relying primarily on static indicators and reacting to automatic rules and alerts, the Threat Hunter uses a deep knowledge of internal defences, cyber-security expertise and the latest cyber-threat intelligence to develop hypotheses and anticipate how those attackers will seek to bypass existing controls to continuously improve our cyber-defences.

The Threat Hunter is accountable for:

- Hunting for malicious or anomalous activity across the enterprise, using the various cybersecurity tools, platforms and capabilities available. Acting in co-ordination with GCO staff to lead the development and implementation of an advanced analysis and search capability focused on identifying potentially sophisticated APT and insider threat activities within the organisation.
- Leveraging a ‘cyber intelligence led approach’ to researching new and existing threat actors and associated tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs); developing a detailed understanding of their potential impact to the organisation, providing, developing and implementing recommended solutions for improving our defensive and detective capability.
- Collaboration with Cybersecurity functions, e.g. Red Team, Cyber-threat Intelligence to develop hypotheses for the detection and/or presence of new attack techniques and evasion methods.
- Coordinating threat hunting activities, leveraging intelligence from multiple internal and external sources.
- Reviewing incident and penetration testing reports and corresponding logs, to identify gaps in our detection capability and provide recommendations to improve them.
- Providing expert analytic investigative support on large scale and complex security incidents.
- Contributing to the continued evolution of hunting, monitoring, detection, analysis and response capabilities and processes
- Training, mentoring and inspiring colleagues across the function and strengthening Cybersecurity Operations capabilities.
- Represent HSBC Global Cybersecurity Operations at internal awareness and external cybersecurity forums
- Collaborate with the wider Cybersecurity (and IT) teams to ensure that the core, underlying technological capabilities that underpin an effective and efficient operational response to current and anticipated threats and trends remain fit for purpose.
Requirements

**Skills**
- Excellent investigative skills, instinctive and creative, with an ability to think like the enemy
- Strong problem-solving and trouble-shooting skills
- Deep knowledge of hacker culture
- Developed external peer network for sharing intelligence
- Self-motivated and possessing of a high sense of urgency and personal integrity
- Highest ethical standards and values
- Excellent understanding of cyber security principles, global financial services business models, regional compliance regulations and laws.
- Excellent understanding and knowledge of common industry cyber security frameworks, standards and methodologies, including; OWASP, ISO2700x series, PCI DSS, GLBA, EU data security and privacy acts, FFIEC guidelines, CIS and NIST standards.
- Comprehensive knowledge of the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- Proven experience in identifying and responding to advanced attacker methodologies both within the corporate environment as well as external attack infrastructures, ideally with offensive experience and / or deception environment development (tripwire systems, honeypots, honey-token/accounts, etc.) using open source, vendor purchased and bespoke/in-house developed solutions.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to produce clear and concise reports for targeted audiences across internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to speak, read and write in English, in addition to your local language

**Technical Skills**
- Highest level of technical expertise in information security, including deep familiarity with relevant penetration and intrusion techniques and attack vectors
- Expert level knowledge and demonstrated experience of common intelligence sharing platforms / protocols a