Job Opportunity:
Canonical seeks a seasoned threat intelligence professional to spearhead its threat intelligence strategy and execution.
This role involves understanding which cyber threat actors are targeting Canonical, and leveraging intelligence on Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) to enhance our products and internal cybersecurity controls.
Main Responsibilities:
* Develop and own Canonical's threat intelligence strategy
* Establish and maintain OSINT research environments
* Evolve OSINT tradecraft, principles, and techniques
* Identify and track targeted intrusion cyber threats, trends, and new developments by cyber threat actors through analysis of proprietary and open source datasets
* Collaborate across teams to inform on activity of interest
* Coordinate adversary/campaign tracking
* Contribute to the wider threat intelligence community, establishing Canonical as a key contributor and thought leader in the space
* Work with product and engineering teams to explain cybersecurity threats and advise on mitigation strategies
* Work with the OPSEC and IS team to help implement/update security controls prioritizing cyber defence
* Identify intelligence gaps and propose new tools and research projects to fill them
* Conduct briefings for executives, internal stakeholders, and external customers
Requirements:
* An experienced threat intelligence leader or similar
* Knowledgeable about the current open source threat landscape and computer networking/infrastructure concepts
* Highly competent with OSINT tools (e.g., Buscador, Trace Labs OSINT VM, OSINT Framework, Maltego, Shodan, social media scraping tools, etc.)
* Able to identify, organize, catalogue, and track adversary tradecraft trends — often with incomplete data
* Experienced using threat intelligence data to influence enterprise architecture or product development decisions
* An excellent communicator with the ability to clearly articulate and tailor technical content to a variety of audiences
About Us:
We are a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world on a daily basis.
We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do.