Analyst II

Are you an Intelligence Analyst with a passion for Threat Intelligence? Are you a resourceful All-source Intelligence Analyst who conducts web-based research and investigations? Are you naturally curious, patient, and committed to success? Do You regularly produce tactical analytic reports for various customers in a fast-paced analytic environment?  Would you like to maintain and develop our collection capabilities serving public and private customers around the globe?

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

We have a role for you if, you:

• Have experience reviewing raw data requiring advanced translation, transcription, and interpretation capability.
• Have an intermediate-level understanding of scripting languages and command line interfaces and experience using these tools to manipulate and format large datasets.
• Have experience tracking cybercriminal, hacktivist, and/or state-sponsored malicious cyber campaigns and mapping the activity to the Mitre ATT&CK framework. 
• Have detailed knowledge of communications platforms in which cyber threat actors operate and a willingness to engage. 
• Have an understanding of social and political movements and their effects on extremism, crime, and geopolitics.
• Can navigate, pivot, and use link analysis to identify threats across multiple social media platforms.
• Have experience producing well-researched and concise written deliverables and can tailor writing to a variety of audiences
• Have foreign language expertise

What you will get to do on our team:

• Leverage our proprietary tools, internal data sources, and external tools to synthesize data and enhance analysis/alerting services for our clients’ operational needs.
• Work with our internal teams and customers to proactively identify cyber threats to reduce risk to client businesses, networks, and operations.
• Quickly understand and deliver on company and customer requirements.
• Translate various collected data sets from deep and Dark Web sources.
• Identify, transcribe, and analyze pertinent factual information for many customers.
• Quickly understand and deliver on company and customer requirements.
• Support monitoring engagements with timely review of internal datasets requiring analyst review.
• Synthesize raw data to identify the credibility of information and deduce relevance to the client base.
• Nominate new collection sources in support of Flashpoint collections.
• Create keywords/patterns to highlight high signal data within Flashpoint tools.
• Understand and abide by security safeguards required to perform job responsibilities.
• Safely navigate virtual environments for supporting assigned tasks, as applicable.

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 access, resources, and training necessary to begin tackling deliverables.
  • Maintain a common intelligence picture.
  • Collaborate with intelligence analysts and organizations involved in related areas.
  • Engage customers to understand customers’ intelligence needs and wants.

• Within 60 days 
• Assist in the identification of intelligence collection shortfalls.
• Maintain awareness of internal and external cyber organization structures, strengths, and employments of staffing and technology.
• Identify threat tactics and methodologies.
• By 90 days
• Produce timely, fused, all-source cyber operations intelligence and/or indications and warnings intelligence products (e.g., threat assessments, briefings, intelligence studies, country studies).
• Provide evaluation and feedback for improving intelligence production, reporting, collection requirements, and operations.
• Identify and evaluate threat-critical capabilities, requirements, and vulnerabilities.
• Monitor and report on validated threat activities.
• Provide information and assessments to inform leadership and customers; develop and refine objectives; support operation planning and execution; and assess the effects of operations.
• Provide input and assist in post-action effectiveness assessments.
• Provide input and assist in the development of plans and guidance.
• Provide intelligence analysis and support to designated exercises, planning activities, and time-sensitive operations.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Foreign language proficiency in Arabic, Hindi, Persian, Dari, Spanish, Russian, or Hebrew (nice to haves).
• Experience or knowledge of conducting and producing physical or cyber threat assessmentsAbility to understand objectives and effects.
• Ability to accurately and completely source all data in intelligence, assessment, and/or planning products.
• Ability to communicate complex information, concepts, or ideas in a well-organized manner through verbal, written, and/or visual means.
• Knowledge of cyber intelligence/information collection capabilities and repositories.
• Knowledge of how targets or threats use the Internet.
• Knowledge of how to extract, analyze, and use metadata.
• Skilled in developing or recommending analytic approaches or solutions to problems and situations for which information is incomplete or no precedent exists.
• Skilled in using Boolean operators to construct simple and complex queries.
• Skilled in using multiple analytic tools, databases, and techniques

Base Pay Range: 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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