Cybersecurity Threat Researcher (Position located in Cheltenham, United Kingdom)
Job description
KnowBe4 empowers the modern workforce to make smarter security decisions every day. Trusted by more than 70,000 organizations worldwide, KnowBe4 is the pioneer of digital workforce security, securing both AI agents and humans. The KnowBe4 Platform provides attack simulation and training, collaboration security, and agent security powered by AIDA (Artificial Intelligence Defense Agents) and a proprietary Risk Score. The platform leverages 15-years of behavioral data to combat advanced threats including social engineering, prompt injection, and shadow AI. By securing humans and agents, KnowBe4 leads the industry in workforce trust and defense.
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The Cybersecurity Threat Researcher works in the KnowBe4 Threat Research Lab, and is responsible for deploying and configuring various security products and solutions such as endpoint, email, web and network protection.
Responsibilities
- BS or equivalent plus 3 years experience
- MS or equivalent plus 1 year experience
- Well versed with IOCs, reverse engineering and threat campaign tracking
- Experience in malicious URL and phishing Email analysis
- Familiarity with Python automation preferred
- Experience in customer-facing environments
- Experience with triaging complex customer queries.
- Experience with databases (SQL or MQL) preferable
Requirements
- Analysing trends and patterns in large data-sets to establish threat trends across regions, industries and business segment sizes.
- Have a passion for cyber security and thrive on solving difficult and complex problems.
- Have a genuine interest in mitigating phishing attacks and be familiar with recent vulnerabilities in our space.
- Investigate phishing emails and have an understanding of Malware Analysis (Configuration of isolated Malware Analysis VM, Identification of File Formats, Basic Static & Dynamic analysis)
- Experience with Threat Actor Tools and techniques
- Enjoy sharing their knowledge and working with team members and external stakeholders.
- Ability to communicate threat knowledge in a customer facing environment
- Assist and enable various departments within KnowBe4 with Threat Intelligence
- Triage, investigate, and respond to alerts coming in from the Knowbe4 email platform efficiently and without support.
- Independent research projects to contribute regularly to external-facing Knowbe4 Threat Labs content, such as blogs
Our Fantastic Benefits
We offer company-wide bonuses based on monthly sales targets, employee referral bonuses, adoption assistance, tuition reimbursement, certification reimbursement, and certification completion bonuses - all in a modern, high-tech, and fun work environment. For more details about our benefits in each office location, please visit .Note: An applicant assessment and background check may be part of your hiring procedure.
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Skills mentioned
KnowBe4 empowers employees at organizations worldwide to make smarter security decisions every day. Who We Are At KnowBe4, we’re happy to go against the grain. We don’t turn out bloatware year after year, and we work with far more than just the bottom line in mind. We’re a team of free-thinking techies who look at IT security issues a little differently. Where other IT security companies may value profits, we value security — helping organizations reinforce their human firewall and build a stronger security culture. Our Rules Do it right the first time. Do it fast. Have fun while you do it. We work like that because we think it’s the only way to go. We believe that only with community can you effectively secure your domains. We believe that as IT pros, we need to hang together because if we don’t, we will fall alone. We support and stand behind the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states that equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family are the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world. All human beings should be treated with decency, kindness and respect. KnowBe4 in 30 Seconds Forrester Research has named KnowBe4 a Leader in Forrester Wave for Security Awareness and Training Solutions for several years in a row. KnowBe4 received the highest scores possible in 17 of the 23 evaluation criteria, including learner content and go-to-market approach. KnowBe4 is the world’s first and largest New-school Security Awareness Training and simulated phishing platform that helps you manage the ongoing problem of social engineering. We also provide powerful add-on products like PhishER and SecurityCoach to prevent bad actors from getting into your networks and extremely popular compliance training that saves you significant budget dollars. The KnowBe4 platform is user-friendly and intuitive. It was built to scale for busy IT pros who have 16 other fires to put out. Our goal was to design the most powerful, yet easy-to-use platform available. Customers of all sizes can get the KnowBe4 platform deployed into production twice as fast as our competitors. Our Customer Success team gets you going in no time, without the need for consulting hours. We are proud of the fact that almost 50% of our team are women, whereas the average number of women in cyber security teams is just 20% of employees.
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