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Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence Analyst (Saudi Only) — Jeddah

Collects and analyzes multi-source information about cybersecurity threats to develop deep understanding and awareness of cyber threats and actors’ Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs), and to derive and report indicators that help organizations detect and predict cyber incidents and protect systems and networks from cyber threats. Proactively searches for undetected threats in networks and systems, identifies Indicators of Compromise (IOCs), and recommends mitigation plans. Monitor, validate, and report threat activities, and continuously ensure compliance with SAMA CSF, SAMA CTIP, and NCA-related controls.

• Conduct research and analysis with regard to cybersecurity/information security threats.
• Track the status of requests for information in line with the organization’s policies.
• Use knowledge of threat actor’s activities to inform the organization’s response to a cyber-incident, and to build a common understanding of the organization’s current cyber risk profile.
• Coordinate, validate, and manage the organization’s cyber threat intelligence sources and feeds.
• Identify information gaps in threat intelligence and assess their implications for the organization.
• Prepare and deliver briefs on specific threats to the organization.
• Evaluate threat decision-making processes.
• Identify the principal threats to the organization’s known vulnerabilities.
• Identify threat tactics and methodologies.
• Monitor and report changes in threat dispositions, activities, tactics, capabilities, and objectives.
• Monitor and report on validated threat activities.
• Monitor open-source websites for hostile content directed towards organizational or partner interests.
• Monitor and report on threat actor activities to fulfill the organization’s threat intelligence and reporting requirements.
• Use expertise on threat actors and activities to support activities to plan and develop the organization’s cybersecurity strategy and resources.
• Provide information and assessments of threat actors to assist stakeholders in planning and executing cybersecurity activities.
• Provide real-time cyber threat intelligence analysis and support during cybersecurity incidents and exercises.
• Monitor cyber threat intelligence feeds and report significant network events and intrusions.
• Provide current intelligence support to critical internal/external stakeholders as appropriate.
• Provide evaluation and feedback necessary for improving intelligence production, intelligence reporting, collection requirements, and operations.
• Provide timely notice of imminent or hostile intentions or activities that may impact organization objectives, resources, or capabilities.
• Utilize the existing related security tools, SIEM, SOAR, EDR, NDR, Threat Management solutions, and Sandboxing, for day-to-day activities and prepare knowledge base articles for investigation cases.
• Monitor and report on validated threat activities.
• Use packet analysis tools to validate intrusion detection system alerts.
• Provide timely detection, identification, and alerting of possible attacks, anomalous activities, and misuse activities and distinguish them from benign activities.
• Perform incident handling, event triage, network analysis, threat detection, trend analysis, metric development, and vulnerability information dissemination.
• Maintain an updated repository of YARA & Sigma rules.
• Maintain an updated repository of sanitized IOCs.

• Ensure compliance with SAMA CSF Framework, with regard to function-related domains/controls.
• Ensure compliance with SAMA Financial Sector CTIP Framework.
• Ensure compliance with NCA Frameworks, with regard to function-related domains/controls.
• Conduct reviews annually on function-related policies and procedures and provide corrective changes accordingly.
• Conduct GAP assessment regularly, to identify gaps, and recommend action plans for implementation.
• Defined Framework function-related KPIs and monitored them quarterly.
• Ensure the Frameworks-related domains/controls evidence folder is updated quarterly.
• Provide a report quarterly to the direct manager with regard to the Framework compliance status.
• On a monthly basis prepare a threat advisory based on “SAMA Guideline on Cyber Security Sharing of Incidents and Imminent Threats with SAMA” and “SAMA Threat Advisory guidelines” to the direct manager.

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline.
• Preferably 1-2 years of relevant post-qualification experience.

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The Threat Intelligence Lead will own Canonical's threat intelligence strategy and execution, including understanding of which cyber threat actors are targeting Canonical, and the use of intelligence on Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTP) to better our products and internal cybersecurity controls. You will collaborate with internal stakeholders as well as with the wider cybersecurity community, making sure that Canonical is recognised as a thought leader on open source threat intelligence.

This role will report to the CISO.

You will lead intelligence gathering and development activities on threat actors targeting software supply chains. You'll study attack trends across the wider open source software landscape, report findings to internal security teams, and advise the wider engineering community on the best course of action to detect and mitigate possible threats.

As the publisher of Ubuntu, Canonical products are directly or indirectly present in almost every organisation and household in the world, making them a prime target for threat actors. This team's mission is to help Canonical, and by extension countless community members and companies around the world, secure their software infrastructure.

What you'll do in this role

• Build and own Canonical's threat intelligence strategy
• Build and maintain OSINT research environments
• Develop OSINT tradecraft, principals, and techniques
• Identify and track targeted intrusion cyber threats, trends, and new developments by cyber threat actors through analysis of proprietary and open source datasets
• Collaborate across teams to inform on activity of interest
• Coordinate adversary/campaign tracking
• Contribute to the wider threat intelligence community, establishing Canonical as a key contributor and thought leader in the space
• Work with product and engineering teams to explain cybersecurity threats and advise on mitigation strategies
• Work with the OPSEC and IS team to help implement/update security controls prioritising cyber defence
• Identify intelligence gaps and propose new tools and research projects to fill them
• Conduct briefings for executives, internal stakeholders and external customers
  
  

• An experienced threat intelligence leader (or similar)
• Knowledgeable about the current open source threat landscape and computer networking/infrastructure concepts
• Highly competent with OSINT tools (e.g., Buscador, Trace Labs OSINT VM, OSINT Framework, Maltego, Shodan, social media scraping tools, etc.)
• Able to identify, organise, catalogue, and track adversary tradecraft trends — often with incomplete data
• Experienced using threat intelligence data to influence enterprise architecture or product development decisions
• An excellent communicator with the ability to clearly articulate and tailor technical content to a variety of audiences
• Able to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
  
  

• A professional portfolio of OSINT related scripts, tools, or frameworks
• Demonstrated involvement in the larger OSINT community (please share relevant links)
• Degree qualified, with a bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a related field
• Certifications in related areas (e.g. GOSI, SANS SEC487 & SEC587, IntelTechniques OSIP, etc)
• Experience in a tech company or government/military signal intelligence departments
  
  

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Information Technology
• Industries Software Development

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The Threat Intelligence Lead will own Canonical's threat intelligence strategy and execution, including understanding of which cyber threat actors are targeting Canonical, and the use of intelligence on Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTP) to better our products and internal cybersecurity controls. You will collaborate with internal stakeholders as well as with the wider cybersecurity community, making sure that Canonical is recognised as a thought leader on open source threat intelligence.

This role will report to the CISO.

You will lead intelligence gathering and development activities on threat actors targeting software supply chains. You'll study attack trends across the wider open source software landscape, report findings to internal security teams, and advise the wider engineering community on the best course of action to detect and mitigate possible threats.

As the publisher of Ubuntu, Canonical products are directly or indirectly present in almost every organisation and household in the world, making them a prime target for threat actors. This team's mission is to help Canonical, and by extension countless community members and companies around the world, secure their software infrastructure.

What you'll do in this role

• Build and own Canonical's threat intelligence strategy
• Build and maintain OSINT research environments
• Develop OSINT tradecraft, principals, and techniques
• Identify and track targeted intrusion cyber threats, trends, and new developments by cyber threat actors through analysis of proprietary and open source datasets
• Collaborate across teams to inform on activity of interest
• Coordinate adversary/campaign tracking
• Contribute to the wider threat intelligence community, establishing Canonical as a key contributor and thought leader in the space
• Work with product and engineering teams to explain cybersecurity threats and advise on mitigation strategies
• Work with the OPSEC and IS team to help implement/update security controls prioritising cyber defence
• Identify intelligence gaps and propose new tools and research projects to fill them
• Conduct briefings for executives, internal stakeholders and external customers
  
  

• An experienced threat intelligence leader (or similar)
• Knowledgeable about the current open source threat landscape and computer networking/infrastructure concepts
• Highly competent with OSINT tools (e.g., Buscador, Trace Labs OSINT VM, OSINT Framework, Maltego, Shodan, social media scraping tools, etc.)
• Able to identify, organise, catalogue, and track adversary tradecraft trends — often with incomplete data
• Experienced using threat intelligence data to influence enterprise architecture or product development decisions
• An excellent communicator with the ability to clearly articulate and tailor technical content to a variety of audiences
• Able to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
  
  

• A professional portfolio of OSINT related scripts, tools, or frameworks
• Demonstrated involvement in the larger OSINT community (please share relevant links)
• Degree qualified, with a bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a related field
• Certifications in related areas (e.g. GOSI, SANS SEC487 & SEC587, IntelTechniques OSIP, etc)
• Experience in a tech company or government/military signal intelligence departments
  
  

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Information Technology
• Industries Software Development

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The Threat Intelligence Lead will own Canonical's threat intelligence strategy and execution, including understanding of which cyber threat actors are targeting Canonical, and the use of intelligence on Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTP) to better our products and internal cybersecurity controls. You will collaborate with internal stakeholders as well as with the wider cybersecurity community, making sure that Canonical is recognised as a thought leader on open source threat intelligence.

This role will report to the CISO.

You will lead intelligence gathering and development activities on threat actors targeting software supply chains. You'll study attack trends across the wider open source software landscape, report findings to internal security teams, and advise the wider engineering community on the best course of action to detect and mitigate possible threats.

As the publisher of Ubuntu, Canonical products are directly or indirectly present in almost every organisation and household in the world, making them a prime target for threat actors. This team's mission is to help Canonical, and by extension countless community members and companies around the world, secure their software infrastructure.

What you'll do in this role

• Build and own Canonical's threat intelligence strategy
• Build and maintain OSINT research environments
• Develop OSINT tradecraft, principals, and techniques
• Identify and track targeted intrusion cyber threats, trends, and new developments by cyber threat actors through analysis of proprietary and open source datasets
• Collaborate across teams to inform on activity of interest
• Coordinate adversary/campaign tracking
• Contribute to the wider threat intelligence community, establishing Canonical as a key contributor and thought leader in the space
• Work with product and engineering teams to explain cybersecurity threats and advise on mitigation strategies
• Work with the OPSEC and IS team to help implement/update security controls prioritising cyber defence
• Identify intelligence gaps and propose new tools and research projects to fill them
• Conduct briefings for executives, internal stakeholders and external customers
  
  

• An experienced threat intelligence leader (or similar)
• Knowledgeable about the current open source threat landscape and computer networking/infrastructure concepts
• Highly competent with OSINT tools (e.g., Buscador, Trace Labs OSINT VM, OSINT Framework, Maltego, Shodan, social media scraping tools, etc.)
• Able to identify, organise, catalogue, and track adversary tradecraft trends — often with incomplete data
• Experienced using threat intelligence data to influence enterprise architecture or product development decisions
• An excellent communicator with the ability to clearly articulate and tailor technical content to a variety of audiences
• Able to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
  
  

• A professional portfolio of OSINT related scripts, tools, or frameworks
• Demonstrated involvement in the larger OSINT community (please share relevant links)
• Degree qualified, with a bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a related field
• Certifications in related areas (e.g. GOSI, SANS SEC487 & SEC587, IntelTechniques OSIP, etc)
• Experience in a tech company or government/military signal intelligence departments
  
  

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Information Technology
• Industries Software Development

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Join to apply for the Threat Intelligence Lead role at Canonical

Join to apply for the Threat Intelligence Lead role at Canonical

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The Threat Intelligence Lead will own Canonical's threat intelligence strategy and execution, including understanding of which cyber threat actors are targeting Canonical, and the use of intelligence on Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTP) to better our products and internal cybersecurity controls. You will collaborate with internal stakeholders as well as with the wider cybersecurity community, making sure that Canonical is recognised as a thought leader on open source threat intelligence.

This role will report to the CISO.

You will lead intelligence gathering and development activities on threat actors targeting software supply chains. You'll study attack trends across the wider open source software landscape, report findings to internal security teams, and advise the wider engineering community on the best course of action to detect and mitigate possible threats.

As the publisher of Ubuntu, Canonical products are directly or indirectly present in almost every organisation and household in the world, making them a prime target for threat actors. This team's mission is to help Canonical, and by extension countless community members and companies around the world, secure their software infrastructure.

What you'll do in this role

• Build and own Canonical's threat intelligence strategy
• Build and maintain OSINT research environments
• Develop OSINT tradecraft, principals, and techniques
• Identify and track targeted intrusion cyber threats, trends, and new developments by cyber threat actors through analysis of proprietary and open source datasets
• Collaborate across teams to inform on activity of interest
• Coordinate adversary/campaign tracking
• Contribute to the wider threat intelligence community, establishing Canonical as a key contributor and thought leader in the space
• Work with product and engineering teams to explain cybersecurity threats and advise on mitigation strategies
• Work with the OPSEC and IS team to help implement/update security controls prioritising cyber defence
• Identify intelligence gaps and propose new tools and research projects to fill them
• Conduct briefings for executives, internal stakeholders and external customers
  
  

• An experienced threat intelligence leader (or similar)
• Knowledgeable about the current open source threat landscape and computer networking/infrastructure concepts
• Highly competent with OSINT tools (e.g., Buscador, Trace Labs OSINT VM, OSINT Framework, Maltego, Shodan, social media scraping tools, etc.)
• Able to identify, organise, catalogue, and track adversary tradecraft trends — often with incomplete data
• Experienced using threat intelligence data to influence enterprise architecture or product development decisions
• An excellent communicator with the ability to clearly articulate and tailor technical content to a variety of audiences
• Able to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
  
  

• A professional portfolio of OSINT related scripts, tools, or frameworks
• Demonstrated involvement in the larger OSINT community (please share relevant links)
• Degree qualified, with a bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a related field
• Certifications in related areas (e.g. GOSI, SANS SEC487 & SEC587, IntelTechniques OSIP, etc)
• Experience in a tech company or government/military signal intelligence departments
  
  

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Information Technology
• Industries Software Development

Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Canonical by 2x

Get notified about new Threat Intelligence Lead jobs in Jiddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia .

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The Threat Intelligence Lead will own Canonical's threat intelligence strategy and execution, including understanding of which cyber threat actors are targeting Canonical, and the use of intelligence on Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTP) to better our products and internal cybersecurity controls. You will collaborate with internal stakeholders as well as with the wider cybersecurity community, making sure that Canonical is recognised as a thought leader on open source threat intelligence.

This role will report to the CISO.

You will lead intelligence gathering and development activities on threat actors targeting software supply chains. You'll study attack trends across the wider open source software landscape, report findings to internal security teams, and advise the wider engineering community on the best course of action to detect and mitigate possible threats.

As the publisher of Ubuntu, Canonical products are directly or indirectly present in almost every organisation and household in the world, making them a prime target for threat actors. This team's mission is to help Canonical, and by extension countless community members and companies around the world, secure their software infrastructure.

What you'll do in this role

• Build and own Canonical's threat intelligence strategy
• Build and maintain OSINT research environments
• Develop OSINT tradecraft, principals, and techniques
• Identify and track targeted intrusion cyber threats, trends, and new developments by cyber threat actors through analysis of proprietary and open source datasets
• Collaborate across teams to inform on activity of interest
• Coordinate adversary/campaign tracking
• Contribute to the wider threat intelligence community, establishing Canonical as a key contributor and thought leader in the space
• Work with product and engineering teams to explain cybersecurity threats and advise on mitigation strategies
• Work with the OPSEC and IS team to help implement/update security controls prioritising cyber defence
• Identify intelligence gaps and propose new tools and research projects to fill them
• Conduct briefings for executives, internal stakeholders and external customers
  
  

• An experienced threat intelligence leader (or similar)
• Knowledgeable about the current open source threat landscape and computer networking/infrastructure concepts
• Highly competent with OSINT tools (e.g., Buscador, Trace Labs OSINT VM, OSINT Framework, Maltego, Shodan, social media scraping tools, etc.)
• Able to identify, organise, catalogue, and track adversary tradecraft trends — often with incomplete data
• Experienced using threat intelligence data to influence enterprise architecture or product development decisions
• An excellent communicator with the ability to clearly articulate and tailor technical content to a variety of audiences
• Able to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
  
  

• A professional portfolio of OSINT related scripts, tools, or frameworks
• Demonstrated involvement in the larger OSINT community (please share relevant links)
• Degree qualified, with a bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a related field
• Certifications in related areas (e.g. GOSI, SANS SEC487 & SEC587, IntelTechniques OSIP, etc)
• Experience in a tech company or government/military signal intelligence departments
  
  

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Information Technology
• Industries Software Development

Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Canonical by 2x

Get notified about new Threat Intelligence Lead jobs in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia .

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The Threat Intelligence Lead will own Canonical's threat intelligence strategy and execution, including understanding of which cyber threat actors are targeting Canonical, and the use of intelligence on Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTP) to better our products and internal cybersecurity controls. You will collaborate with internal stakeholders as well as with the wider cybersecurity community, making sure that Canonical is recognised as a thought leader on open source threat intelligence.

This role will report to the CISO.

You will lead intelligence gathering and development activities on threat actors targeting software supply chains. You'll study attack trends across the wider open source software landscape, report findings to internal security teams, and advise the wider engineering community on the best course of action to detect and mitigate possible threats.

As the publisher of Ubuntu, Canonical products are directly or indirectly present in almost every organisation and household in the world, making them a prime target for threat actors. This team's mission is to help Canonical, and by extension countless community members and companies around the world, secure their software infrastructure.

What you'll do in this role

• Build and own Canonical's threat intelligence strategy
• Build and maintain OSINT research environments
• Develop OSINT tradecraft, principals, and techniques
• Identify and track targeted intrusion cyber threats, trends, and new developments by cyber threat actors through analysis of proprietary and open source datasets
• Collaborate across teams to inform on activity of interest
• Coordinate adversary/campaign tracking
• Contribute to the wider threat intelligence community, establishing Canonical as a key contributor and thought leader in the space
• Work with product and engineering teams to explain cybersecurity threats and advise on mitigation strategies
• Work with the OPSEC and IS team to help implement/update security controls prioritising cyber defence
• Identify intelligence gaps and propose new tools and research projects to fill them
• Conduct briefings for executives, internal stakeholders and external customers
  
  

• An experienced threat intelligence leader (or similar)
• Knowledgeable about the current open source threat landscape and computer networking/infrastructure concepts
• Highly competent with OSINT tools (e.g., Buscador, Trace Labs OSINT VM, OSINT Framework, Maltego, Shodan, social media scraping tools, etc.)
• Able to identify, organise, catalogue, and track adversary tradecraft trends — often with incomplete data
• Experienced using threat intelligence data to influence enterprise architecture or product development decisions
• An excellent communicator with the ability to clearly articulate and tailor technical content to a variety of audiences
• Able to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
  
  

• A professional portfolio of OSINT related scripts, tools, or frameworks
• Demonstrated involvement in the larger OSINT community (please share relevant links)
• Degree qualified, with a bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a related field
• Certifications in related areas (e.g. GOSI, SANS SEC487 & SEC587, IntelTechniques OSIP, etc)
• Experience in a tech company or government/military signal intelligence departments
  
  

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Information Technology
• Industries Software Development

Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Canonical by 2x

Get notified about new Threat Intelligence Lead jobs in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia .

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Join to apply for the Threat Intelligence Lead role at Canonical

Join to apply for the Threat Intelligence Lead role at Canonical

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The Threat Intelligence Lead will own Canonical's threat intelligence strategy and execution, including understanding of which cyber threat actors are targeting Canonical, and the use of intelligence on Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTP) to better our products and internal cybersecurity controls. You will collaborate with internal stakeholders as well as with the wider cybersecurity community, making sure that Canonical is recognised as a thought leader on open source threat intelligence.

This role will report to the CISO.

You will lead intelligence gathering and development activities on threat actors targeting software supply chains. You'll study attack trends across the wider open source software landscape, report findings to internal security teams, and advise the wider engineering community on the best course of action to detect and mitigate possible threats.

As the publisher of Ubuntu, Canonical products are directly or indirectly present in almost every organisation and household in the world, making them a prime target for threat actors. This team's mission is to help Canonical, and by extension countless community members and companies around the world, secure their software infrastructure.

What you'll do in this role

• Build and own Canonical's threat intelligence strategy
• Build and maintain OSINT research environments
• Develop OSINT tradecraft, principals, and techniques
• Identify and track targeted intrusion cyber threats, trends, and new developments by cyber threat actors through analysis of proprietary and open source datasets
• Collaborate across teams to inform on activity of interest
• Coordinate adversary/campaign tracking
• Contribute to the wider threat intelligence community, establishing Canonical as a key contributor and thought leader in the space
• Work with product and engineering teams to explain cybersecurity threats and advise on mitigation strategies
• Work with the OPSEC and IS team to help implement/update security controls prioritising cyber defence
• Identify intelligence gaps and propose new tools and research projects to fill them
• Conduct briefings for executives, internal stakeholders and external customers
  
  

• An experienced threat intelligence leader (or similar)
• Knowledgeable about the current open source threat landscape and computer networking/infrastructure concepts
• Highly competent with OSINT tools (e.g., Buscador, Trace Labs OSINT VM, OSINT Framework, Maltego, Shodan, social media scraping tools, etc.)
• Able to identify, organise, catalogue, and track adversary tradecraft trends — often with incomplete data
• Experienced using threat intelligence data to influence enterprise architecture or product development decisions
• An excellent communicator with the ability to clearly articulate and tailor technical content to a variety of audiences
• Able to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
  
  

• A professional portfolio of OSINT related scripts, tools, or frameworks
• Demonstrated involvement in the larger OSINT community (please share relevant links)
• Degree qualified, with a bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a related field
• Certifications in related areas (e.g. GOSI, SANS SEC487 & SEC587, IntelTechniques OSIP, etc)
• Experience in a tech company or government/military signal intelligence departments
  
  

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Information Technology
• Industries Software Development

Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Canonical by 2x

Get notified about new Threat Intelligence Lead jobs in Jiddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia .

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The Threat Intelligence Lead will own Canonical's threat intelligence strategy and execution, including understanding of which cyber threat actors are targeting Canonical, and the use of intelligence on Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTP) to better our products and internal cybersecurity controls. You will collaborate with internal stakeholders as well as with the wider cybersecurity community, making sure that Canonical is recognised as a thought leader on open source threat intelligence.

This role will report to the CISO.

You will lead intelligence gathering and development activities on threat actors targeting software supply chains. You'll study attack trends across the wider open source software landscape, report findings to internal security teams, and advise the wider engineering community on the best course of action to detect and mitigate possible threats.

As the publisher of Ubuntu, Canonical products are directly or indirectly present in almost every organisation and household in the world, making them a prime target for threat actors. This team's mission is to help Canonical, and by extension countless community members and companies around the world, secure their software infrastructure.

What you'll do in this role

• Build and own Canonical's threat intelligence strategy
• Build and maintain OSINT research environments
• Develop OSINT tradecraft, principals, and techniques
• Identify and track targeted intrusion cyber threats, trends, and new developments by cyber threat actors through analysis of proprietary and open source datasets
• Collaborate across teams to inform on activity of interest
• Coordinate adversary/campaign tracking
• Contribute to the wider threat intelligence community, establishing Canonical as a key contributor and thought leader in the space
• Work with product and engineering teams to explain cybersecurity threats and advise on mitigation strategies
• Work with the OPSEC and IS team to help implement/update security controls prioritising cyber defence
• Identify intelligence gaps and propose new tools and research projects to fill them
• Conduct briefings for executives, internal stakeholders and external customers
  
  

• An experienced threat intelligence leader (or similar)
• Knowledgeable about the current open source threat landscape and computer networking/infrastructure concepts
• Highly competent with OSINT tools (e.g., Buscador, Trace Labs OSINT VM, OSINT Framework, Maltego, Shodan, social media scraping tools, etc.)
• Able to identify, organise, catalogue, and track adversary tradecraft trends — often with incomplete data
• Experienced using threat intelligence data to influence enterprise architecture or product development decisions
• An excellent communicator with the ability to clearly articulate and tailor technical content to a variety of audiences
• Able to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
  
  

• A professional portfolio of OSINT related scripts, tools, or frameworks
• Demonstrated involvement in the larger OSINT community (please share relevant links)
• Degree qualified, with a bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a related field
• Certifications in related areas (e.g. GOSI, SANS SEC487 & SEC587, IntelTechniques OSIP, etc)
• Experience in a tech company or government/military signal intelligence departments
  
  

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Information Technology
• Industries Software Development

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