Analyst I - Tactical Threat Monitoring

Flashpoint is the pioneering leader in threat data and intelligence. We empower commercial enterprises and government agencies to decisively confront complex security challenges, reduce risk, and improve operational resilience amid fast-evolving threats. Through the Flashpoint Ignite platform, we deliver unparalleled depth, breadth and speed of data from highly relevant sources, enriched by human insights. Our solutions span cyber threat intelligence, vulnerability intelligence, geopolitical risk, physical security, fraud and brand protection. The result: our customers safeguard critical assets, avoid financial loss, and protect lives. Discover more at flashpoint.io

Are you an Analyst early in their intelligence journey who enjoys helping others monitor the cyber environment while being a part of a global intelligence team that covers all corners of the world? This role is for a threat intelligence analyst to conduct tactical threat monitoring (TTM) and detection activities, leveraging internal tools, and to assess and communicate risks to customers via tactical-level reports.

We have a role for you if you:

• have patience and superior attention to detail

• have experience processing large volumes of data without losing focus

• are a native or near-native speaker of at least one of the following languages: Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, French, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, or Japanese

• dream of breaking into the cybersecurity industry

What you will get to do on our team:

• Produce high-quality tactical assessments to inform risk intelligence decision-making process and prevent cybercrime

• Leverage Flashpoint proprietary tools and systems to support assigned tasks

• Build patterns/queries according to syntax rules to highlight high signal data within Flashpoint tools

• Manage customer alerting profiles and work cross-functionally with Customer Success to resolve alerting-related issues

• Synthesize quantitative and qualitative data to identify information credibility and deduce relevance for client requests and overall clientbase.

• Understand and articulate security safeguards required to perform job responsibilities

• Nominate new collection sources in support of Flashpoint collections

• Safely navigate virtual environments for supporting assigned tasks as applicable

• Comply with Flashpoint org-wide and Intel team policies and procedures, including Rules of Engagement

What you will achieve:

• Within 30 days

  • You will have been fully onboarded and integrated into a team of professional intelligence analysts and assigned a mentor to guide you through your initial journey at Flashpoint. Your team will have provided you with accesses, resources, and training necessary to begin tackling deliverables

• Within 60 days 

  • You will have completed onboarding and familiarized yourself with internal team operations 

  • You will have developed a solid understanding of customers’ alerting requirements and started producing high-quality tactical-level reports for assigned customers. 

• By 90 days

  • You will have become completely comfortable with handling day-to-day deliverables and tasks on your own and become confident in your abilities to work independently or on a team.

  • You will have become comfortable developing high-precision keywords and patterns, testing them in the FP platform, refining to eliminate irrelevant mentions, and uploading them to customer alerting profiles without supervision

  • You will have carried out your own investigations in support of requests for information

  • You will have become familiar with teams outside of your own team and begun building working relationships to assist you in becoming successful in your career

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Experience sifting through large amounts of data to identify relevant information

• Patience and superior attention to detail

• Ability to focus for long periods of time

• To be native or near-native proficiency in at least one of the following languages: Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Chinese, Vietnamese, Arabic or Japanese

Salary: Salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Individual pay is determined by state, work location, and additional factors including job-related skills, experience, specialized skills or certifications, and relevant education or training. This position is eligible for incentive bonus compensation, and medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and 401K. Your recruiter can share more about the specific details of the compensation and benefits package during the interview process.

Why Flashpoint is a Great Place to Work:

• Diversity.  Flashpoint is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, inclusion, belonging, and equity. We recognize that diversity is key to achieving our vision. We believe that every person and their experiences contribute to building a work environment and products and services that will change the world.

• Culture and Belonging.  Our company’s culture isn’t something you join, it’s something you build and shape, and each person's unique backgrounds and experiences contribute to who Flashpoint is and will become.  You will have ample opportunities to connect with coworkers through various communication channels and company-funded virtual events: book clubs, happy hours, committees, DIBE discussion group, Donut mixers, local team member meetups and much more. 

• Perks. Flashpoint understands that personal wellness is one of the keys to a happy, healthy and productive work environment.  That’s why we also prioritize health and wellness perks like gym reimbursements, expensed lunches, cool cultural initiatives and inclusive employee events.

• Career Growth. Flashpoint is invested in the growth of our team members and understands that frequent, two-way feedback is critical to that growth. We encourage regular one-on-ones with your manager, a regular schedule of performance reviews, learning and development opportunities, and guidance through formalized career paths; whether that be towards being a great manager, being a great individual contributor, or a lateral move to gain breadth of knowledge and experience.

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