Threat Hunting Manager

FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential!

The Opportunity

 “As a Threat Hunting Manager, you will be leading a Threat Hunting team to perform proactive & interactive hunting in our current landscape and focus more on determining which threats increase FICO’s risk exposure. You will lead and inspire a team of security researchers, setting research priorities and guiding projects to advance the understanding of emerging cyber threats.”- Hiring Manager

What You’ll Contribute

• Lead the development and execution of threat-hunting strategies to proactively identify and mitigate advanced cyber threats.

• Ability to research threat actor’s current trends, malware, and attack vectors including ransomware/APT operators to perform proactive & iterative hunting.

• High-level contribution to the strategic direction for Threat Hunting Strategies and best practices to enhance Organizations’ cyber security posture.

• Solid understanding of MITRE ATT&CK, and Methodologies.

• Experience in Leveraging common Enterprise Security solutions such as XDR, SIEM, TIP, XSOR, WIZ and OSINT tools to perform threat hunting.

• Conduct in-depth analysis of security logs/events, and alerts to identify patterns and correlate unusual behaviors for hypothesis-driven hunts.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and implement Threat Hunting strategies and use cases based on threat intelligence and Situational analysis.

• Develop dashboards and reports for strategic visualization to identify potential threat patterns, suspicious/anomalous activity, Entity specific and malware artifacts, etc.

• Good knowledge of Active Directory, IAM & cloud infrastructure hunting such as AWS, MS Azure Infrastructures.

• Experience in malware analysis and extracting TTP’s and IOC’s for Detection enrichments.

• Performing sandboxing testing for malware where necessary as a part of Hunting efforts to identify security gaps.

What We’re Seeking

• Bachelor’s Degree and 7-12 years of experience in a related field.

• Highly technical hands-on background developing hypothesis, detection queries as well as proficiency in query languages such as KQL, SPL, etc.

• Strong research, analytical, writing, briefing, interpersonal and managerial skills.

• Strong Understanding of MITRE ATT&CK TTP’s, NIST cyber incident response framework, THMM, Threat-hunting frameworks, best practices and methodologies.

• Strong experience in the field of Cyber Threat Hunting & Intelligence landscape to carry out various hunt missions based on adversary targeting, tactics, techniques and best practices.

• Experience conveying technical information to stakeholders and a broad range of non-technical audiences.

• Ability to inspire and mentoring other team members.

Our Offer to You

•  An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values:  Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.

• The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.

• Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.

• An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.

Why Make a Move to FICO?

At FICO, you can develop your career with a leading organization in one of the fastest-growing fields in technology today – Big Data analytics.  You’ll play a part in our commitment to help businesses use data to improve every choice they make, using advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, and much more.

FICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide:

•    Credit Scoring — More than 90% of US credit decisions involve the FICO Score.

•    Fraud Detection and Security — 4 billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems.

•    Lending — 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.

Global trends toward digital transformation have created tremendous demand for FICO’s solutions, placing us among the world’s top 100 software companies by revenue. We help many of the world’s largest banks, insurers, retailers, telecommunications providers and other firms reach a new level of success. Our success is dependent on really talented people – just like you – who thrive on the collaboration and innovation that’s nurtured by a diverse and inclusive environment. We’ll provide the support you need, while ensuring you have the freedom to develop your skills and grow your career.  Join FICO and help change the way business thinks!

Learn more about how you can fulfil your potential at www.fico.com/Careers

FICO promotes a culture of inclusion and seeks to attract a diverse set of candidates for each job opportunity. We are an equal employment opportunity employer and we’re proud to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all candidates without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Research has shown that women and candidates from underrepresented communities may not apply for an opportunity if they don’t meet all stated qualifications. While our qualifications are clearly related to role success, each candidate’s profile is unique and strengths in certain skill and/or experience areas can be equally effective. If you believe you have many, but not necessarily all, of the stated qualifications we encourage you to apply.

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