Digital Shadows® runs a cyber monitoring managed service that secures its clients' digital footprints. We are an innovative, high-growth security technology start-up. Having founded in May 2011 we are on an exciting journey. We are currently based in Canary Wharf, London as part of the vibrant Level39 tech accelerator facility in One Canada Square. We work with many of the largest financial institutions in the world and are expanding into other sectors. We work with cutting edge technology in large-scale data processing and analytics. Our unique technology helps our clients to address unique security challenges. We've developed a technology platform that monitors for our clients leaking business-critical information. The same platform also identifies criminal groups and organisations that threaten our clients. Our analysts work with the system to alert our clients to these risks and help them to pre-empt or mitigate issues as they arise. We are looking for a bright, experienced, self-starting person to act as our lead infosec technology analyst. This unusual and unique role will help develop our approach to the detection of fraud, crime and the use of malicious tools, tactics and procedures across the diverse range of online information sources that the company monitors. This is a pivotal role providing liaison between the technology development team, the CTO and the analyst team. We are looking for an individual with a natural curiosity whom is fluent in information and internet security, but also has extensive experience of technical information security research. We believe that this would be an interesting role that would suit an experienced security testing or forensics professional. The role provides an opportunity to contribute to a wide variety of tasks. We have ambitious growth plans for 2014 and beyond and there is huge potential to develop with the role as the company grows, taking on more responsibility and building a long term career. Scope and scale of the role We are seeking a specialist information security technology researcher and analyst to lead in supporting our growing intelligence team. This role provides essential support to our intelligence analysts in interpreting and researching online threats using the Digital Shadows Threat Searchlight platform. We are looking for an individual whom can bring to bear expertise in the security of Internet technologies to support our team of multi-lingual analysts in interpreting and managing technical threat information. The role will be varied and flexible and is expected to include the following primary activities: • Use of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) techniques to research the latest tools, tactics and capabilities of a range of online threat actors. • Conducting online forensic techniques to enhance the understanding of the WHO and WHY of online threats, helping to enrich and maintain profiles of groups that we are interested. • Help leverage new data sources to provide relevant context to our clients alerts. • To help characterise and monitor emergent trends and behaviours of online infrastructure used in attacks. • Contribute ideas and designs for new features to be added to the Digital Shadows platform. • To work with the information security research community at large to keep our work at the cutting edge. • Configure new data acquisition and analysis strategies enhancing, the capabilities to align with our clients' interests. • Providing advice and recommendations to clients in response to specific risks. Because we are a small company you may be called on to leverage your expert skills against a range of tasks, for instance advising our sales team on the latest technical threat developments, or assisting our marketing specialists on how best to communicate our unique information security capabilities to potential clients. In all cases you will have the opportunity to make a meaningful difference to the company. You may be asked to work non-standard office hours depending on the level of support we need to provide for international clients so it would be useful if you are comfortable with this.