Threat Intelligence Analyst: Threat Research & Analysis (TR&A), Insikt Group, Recorded Future

This Role: Recorded Future's Insikt Group is seeking a Threat Intelligence Analyst to join our Threat Research & Analysis (TR&A) team, focusing on tracking nation-state and cybercriminal threat actors and the emerging cyber threats that matter most to our clients. TR&A is a distributed team of experienced analysts monitoring, reporting on, and writing detections for state-sponsored and financially motivated threat actors. This role involves both proactive monitoring and in-depth research into threat actor infrastructure, tools, and TTPs, as well as producing high-impact, actionable finished intelligence and detections. You will track new and evolving nation-state and cyber threats as they emerge, adapting focus as the threat landscape and our clients' priorities shift.

What You’ll Do:

• Conduct proactive hunting for threat actors by establishing methods to identify, signature, and validate malicious infrastructure;
• Conduct technical research into nation-state and cybercriminal threat actors, dissecting their tools and TTPs to produce high-impact finished intelligence for clients and the Recorded Future public blog;
• Represent Insikt Group as a subject matter expert through customer briefings, media engagements, and public research dissemination, focusing on malicious infrastructure and regional threat landscapes;
• Collaborate with geopolitical and regional analysis teams to support cross-functional research
• Mentor and guide analysts within the team, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing, skill development, and professional growth, ensuring the team's collective expertise is continually advancing.
• Continuously improve and optimize threat intelligence processes, tools, and methodologies to enhance the team's ability to detect and respond to emerging threats, and proactively identify opportunities for automation and efficiency gains.
• Stay up to date on evolving Threat Actor tradecraft and the global malware landscape by monitoring technical publications, blogs, and trusted sharing communities.

What You’ll Bring:

• A passion for threat hunting and threat intelligence.
• Demonstrative understanding of malicious infrastructure detection to include C2s, botnets, etc., in the context of cybersecurity, pivoting, network defense, and business risk.
• Ability to leverage AI/LLMs to automate "busy work" and accelerate workflows while maintaining the rigorous human-in-the-loop required to ensure high-fidelity, verified intelligence.
• Demonstrable experience conducting technical threat analysis and research
• Demonstrable experience with structured analytical techniques, the intelligence cycle, and intelligence writing techniques and methodologies
• Fluency in common CTI research and data analysis platforms/tools such as the Elastic Stack (ElasticSearch, Kibana), Maltego, Modat, Shodan, Censys, DomainTools, or other similar tools/datasets
• In-depth understanding of TCP/IP and other networking protocols and network traffic analysis techniques
• Experience working directly with customers, with strong written and verbal communication skills to clearly convey complex technical and non-technical concepts
• Practical experience using common threat intelligence analysis models such as MITRE ATT&CK, the Diamond Model, and the Cyber Kill Chain
• Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills; ability to work with globally distributed team members
• 2+ years of experience in Information Security and/or Threat Intelligence
• Ability to work from a Recorded Future office (Boston, MA or Arlington, VA) at least 3 days per week

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency in a foreign language (Arabic, Turkish or Persian/Farsi) to support regional-specific research;
• MA/MS or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Security, or a related field
• Scripting capabilities (Python preferred)
• Experience writing network and/or endpoint signature detections using Suricata, Snort, YARA, SIGMA, etc.
• Experience with business risk analysis / communicating business risks to executives

The base salary range for this full-time position is $92,500 - $139,000. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The salary displayed reflects the range for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by state, work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. This position may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and medical, dental, vision, life insurance and 401K. Your recruiter can share more about the specific details of the compensation and benefit package during the hiring process.

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