Threat Intelligence Analyst

Established in 2004, we are a tech pioneer offering world-class adult entertainment and games on some of the internet's safest and most popular platforms. With the support of an international team of dynamic and collaborative innovators, we are on a mission to enable safe user experiences and empower our communities by celebrating diversity, inclusion, and expression — all while maintaining robust trust-and-safety protocols.

Threat Intelligence & Exploitation (TIE) is the premier Intelligence team within Aylo. TIE is focused on fulfilling its Mandate ensuring delivery of Timely, Relevant, and Actionable Intelligence to IS teams to protect the CIA of Aylo networks. TIE also works with highly qualified third-party organizations, valued non-profit organizations, and LE agencies dedicated to combatting child and human trafficking, exploitation of minors, CSAM and OCSE, and the other aspects related to these sensitive topics to ensure we not only keep this content off all Aylo platforms, but we work as a good faith partner on a larger scale in combatting the above actions.

TIE is looking for a Threat Intelligence Analyst to join the team and support the TIE Mandate. Your job will be to assess and analyze potential threats and provide impactful feedback on the way forward for TIE. You will be tasked between Mandate roles and potentially viewing disturbing content, so mental fortitude or prior experience is highly valued. Daily cadence and operations can shift dramatically in a short time for in-depth knowledge and understanding of core Intelligence fundamentals is pivotal.

**What you'll be doing**:

- Analyzing and reviewing automated SIEM alerts to determine impact and potential follow-on activities
- Daily review of non-critical alerts to determine and assess and validity and potential wider impact to Aylo networks
- Cross reference alerts with OSINT enrichment and contextualization to provide a deeper understanding to SOC and other IS teams
- Review and analyze Honeypots, Honey Tokens and other relevant tools related to Threat Actor actions and TTPs
- Write Reports and analysis when required
- Remain on top off Trends and the current state of the internet in a larger sense to provide proactive analysis to relevant teams
- Darkweb Investigations relevant to TIE operations
- Track and manage work on digital tracking toolsets and update company wide wikis for proper knowledge transfer
- In-depth OSINT investigations in conjunction with Darkweb or other investigations
- Monitoring of forums, spaces, wikis, personal blogs, or other areas across the multiple nets for potential illegal material relevant to Aylo
- Threat Huning across multiple different networks and hidden areas of the internet for potential illegal activity
- Malware Analysis: Analyse and dissect malware samples to understand their behaviour, capabilities, and potential impact.

**What you'll need to be successful**:

- Core Intelligence Principles (What is Intelligence, Intelligence Cycle, 3 Knowns Model, Data vs. Information vs. Intelligence, CIRs & PIRs, Psychology of Intelligence, etc.)
- Intelligence Foundations (Diamond Model, Cyber Kill Chain, MITRE ATT&CK Framework, Unified Kill Chain, etc.)
- Trend Analysis and Pattern awareness
- Investigation experience and evidence capture
- Threat Hunting experience
- Formal and informal report writing with footnotes and evidence
- Experience with Intelligence toolsets (ELK, Splunk, OSINT framework, etc.)
- Documentation and workload toolsets (Confluence, ServiceNow, JIRA, etc.)
- Phishing (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
- Clouds (Azure, AWS, GCP)

**Must Haves**:

- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience or a cyber security certification or equivalent time in the field
- Ability to weigh business risks and enforce appropriate security measures
- Ability to work in fast paced, rapidly changing environment
- Ability to work variable schedules as required
- Understanding of attack vectors and methodologies
- Able to both converse and debate in group settings without an ego
- Understanding of weaknesses and able to identify when their mental health redlines are hit

**As an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees**

**In this role you may be exposed to adult content