Threat Intelligence Specialist-AVP

About Us:

MUFG Bank, Ltd. is Japans premier bank, with a global network spanning in more than 40 markets. Outside of Japan, the bank offers an extensive scope of commercial and investment banking products and services to businesses, governments, and individuals worldwide. MUFG Banks parent, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG) is one of the worlds leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with over 360 years of history, the Group has about 120,000 employees and offers services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing.

The Group aims to be the worlds most trusted financial group through close collaboration among our operating companies and flexibly respond to all the financial needs of our customers, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. MUFGs shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York stock exchanges.

MUFG Global Service Private Limited:

Established in 2020, MUFG Global Service Private Limited (MGS) is 100% subsidiary of MUFG having offices in Bengaluru and Mumbai. MGS India has been set up as a Global Capability Centre / Centre of Excellence to provide support services across various functions such as IT, KYC/ AML, Credit, Operations etc. to MUFG Bank offices globally. MGS India has plans to significantly ramp-up its growth over the next 18-24 months while servicing MUFGs global network across Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific

About the Role:

Position Title: Threat Intelligence Specialist

Corporate Title: Assistant Vice President

Reporting to: Vice President of Threat Intelligence

Location: Bengaluru

Job Profile

Position details

The IRMD Threat Intelligence Centre is toensure that key activities in furnishing MUFG with actionable intelligence by identifying, analysing, and tracking potential cyber threats that could impact the bank.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead collection of information for different level of cyber threat intelligence, ranging from strategic, tactical to operational.
• Analyse information collected to produce actionable intelligence.
• Utilise internal and OSINT tools to research threat, vulnerabilities, and intelligence on various threat actors relevant to MUFG.
• Manage and finetune threat intelligence sources to fit the banks operating environment.
• Lead the development and maintenance threat actor and TTP knowledge base.
• Create comprehensive reports about current threat landscape and trends of interest to MUFG.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance threat intelligence processes, procedure, and services.
• Support the incident response function with relevant intelligence during incident response.
• Support and participate in threat hunting activities.
• Strengthen security measures by proactively identifying security weaknesses and implementing adjustments.
• Provide insights and influence the cybersecurity roadmap of MUFG.
• Guide, advise the team on threat intelligence procedures.
• Continuously keep up to date with emerging threat trends within the cybersecurity landscape.
• Participate in Global Intelligence team discussion.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in computer science, Cybersecurity, or related field.
• 8-12 years of proven experience in cyber threat intelligence analysis, including the ability to identify, assess, and respond to various cyber threats.
• Possess security certifications such as SANS GCTI, CISSP or any Cyber security specialty is an added advantage.
• Good understanding of CTI framework like Mitre ATT&CK, Cyber kill chain and Diamond model.
• Up-to-date knowledge on cyber security technologies (TIPS, SIEM, SOAR, EDR and etc)
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to envision solutions to complex security problems.
• Proficiency in cybersecurity technologies and threat intelligence platforms.
• Extensive understanding of internet security issues and threat landscape.
• Strong knowledge of threat hunting, forensics, and incident response processes is an added advantage.
• Experience with various cybersecurity tools and network monitoring systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work in a high-pressure environment.