Lead Analyst

The Cybersecurity Incident Response Lead Analyst is accountable for :

- Performing the technical and forensic investigations into cyber security events across the globe taking responsibility for the timely identification of cyberthreats and where possible minimising further risk to HSBCs information assets and services

- Carrying out postincident reviews assessing the effectiveness of controls detection and response capability and supporting the required improvements with the responsible owners

- Performing the forensic services for the collection processing preservation analysis and presentation of evidence in support of vulnerability mitigation and information security incident investigations

- Maintaining a strong awareness of technology trends and industry best practice to enable the provision of informed advice and guidance to HSBC Business functions and HSBC IT

- Collaboration with the wider GCO teams and wider businessfunction teams where applicable in the production and maintenance of efficient and effective incident response playbooks

- Supporting the Identification development and implementation of new detections Use cases

- Developing and defining detailed processes and procedures to manage the response to cyber security events

- Directly contributing to the continued technical enhancement of the security platforms

- Supporting the continued evolution of incident response and forensic capabilities and processes including automation and orchestration

- Training and developing other members of the Incident Management and Response team as well as other members of the Global Cybersecurity Operations function

- Supporting a selfcritical culture whereby identification of weaknesses in the banks control plane people process and technology are brought to light in an effective manner and addressed

- Supporting a culture of individual selfimprovement whereby staff are expected to maintain subject matter expertise within their area of focus and within the realm of cybersecurity more broadly

- Supporting engagement of Global Businesses and Functions everywhere HSBC does business that drives a global uplift in cybersecurity awareness helping to tell the story of HSBC Cybersecurity efforts

- Production of Management Information related to the CSIRT mission that is appropriate to the target audience supported by data and experienced analysis enabling informed :

- An understanding of business needs and commitment to delivering highquality prompt and efficient service to the business

- An understanding of organisational mission values and goals and consistent application of this knowledge

- Strong decisionmaking capabilities with a proven ability to weigh the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and identify the most appropriate one

- An ability to perform independent analysis of complex problems and distill relevant findings and root causes

- An ability to communicate complex and technical issues to diverse audiences orally and in writing in an easilyunderstood authoritative and actionable manner

- A teamfocused mentality with the proven ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders

- Selfmotivated and possessing of a high sense of urgency and personal integrity

- Highest ethical standards and values

- Good understanding of HSBC cyber security principles global financial services business models regional compliance regulations and applicable laws

- Good 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

- Proven ability and experience of working in a highpressure fast paced environment where bold time critical decision making is essential

- 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 honeytokenaccounts etc using open source vendor purchased and bespokeinhouse developed solutions

- Excellent knowledge and demonstrated experience of common cybersecurity technologies such as IDS IPS HIPS Advanced Antimalware prevention and analysis Firewalls Proxies MSS etc

- Excellent knowledge of common network protocols such as TCP UDP DNS DHCP IPSEC HTTP etc and network protocol analysis suits

- Excellent knowledge of common enterprise technology infrastructure platforms and tooling including Windows Linux infrastructure management and networking Experience and Qualifications :

- 5 years of experience in incident response andor computer forensics

- Extensive experience within an enterprise scale organisation including handson experience of complex data centre :

Mandatory Skills : SIEM Administration,SOC L1\L2- Monitoring

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