Global Risk and Security (GR&S) at Vanguard enables business strategy, protects client and Vanguard interests (e.g., assets and data), and stewards a strong risk culture. Our teams leverage enterprise-wide insights, deep expertise, and trusted advice so that across Vanguard leaders and crew drive faster, stronger, risk-informed decisions.

Within GR&S, the Enterprise Security and Fraud (ES&F) sub-division is responsible for the global protection of Vanguard crew, property, data, and client assets. We are the trusted advisors that protect the pride of Vanguard with state-of-the-art security and fraud capabilities. We are a world-class destination of highly engaged, passionate, and diverse talent expected to continuously learn and develop in an ever-changing security landscape.

Our crew are our greatest resource – by joining our team you will build collaborative long-term relationships and enjoy a suite of benefits that includes comprehensive health and wellness care, work-life balance, and an investment in your future at its core.

The Cyber Threat Intelligence Center provides timely situational awareness, conducts deep analysis of threats and vulnerabilities, and extracts actionable information for relevant teams. Stakeholders include cyber-security response teams, internal lines of business, leadership, and external organizations such industry peers and intelligence sharing partners.

The Senior Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst position is responsible for conducting in-depth research, documentation, and intelligence analysis of key cyber threats and vulnerabilities to understand threats to Vanguard. Additionally, the Senior Analyst will be expected to help lead more junior analysts across a variety of intelligence problem sets to uncover emerging intelligence which may be threatening to Vanguard operations.

Common duties include:

Collect, analyze, and correlate cyber threat intelligence from open sources (OSINT), commercial, and government sources.Actively monitor the threat landscape to synthesize and disseminate critical insights to relevant stakeholders.Conduct tactical and operational threat analysis in support of ongoing campaigns, identifying new TTPs and vulnerabilities for analysis and detection opportunities.Assist leadership in tracking threat actors, vulnerability exploitation, and other emerging and novel TTPs relevant to Vanguard’s technology footprint.Produce actionable reports, briefings, and indicators of compromise (IOCs) for internal stakeholders.Possess critical thinking and problem-solving abilities to find solutions, extrapolate salient artifacts, and identify correlations in threat data.Escalate critical or important findings to managers in a timely manner with appropriate risk analysis.Exercise independent judgment in methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results while also assessing the intelligence output of more junior analysts prior to dissemination.Work with hunt and analysis teams to assist with contextualizing the threat and facilitating the identification, mitigation, and containment of cyber-security incidents.Draft well-written analytical assessments and provide briefings to the team on key issues and provide editorial guidance to more junior analysts related to their output.

Additional Qualifications:

Experience working in a SOC or cyber operations environmentKnowledge of current and emerging cyber adversaries and their techniques, tactics, and procedures (TTPs)Knowledge of a Cyber Threat Intelligence Platform, feed integrations, and security/process orchestration and automation.  Knowledge of threat modeling and adversary tactics and techniques frameworks, such as MITRE ATT&CK matrices, Cyber Kill Chain, ACHKnowledge of Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), CVE analysis, adversary exploitation techniques, attack surface management.Proficiency in cybersecurity tools and techniques, as well as knowledge of common cyber threats and attack vectors.Understanding of current cybersecurity trends, threats, and concepts.Ability to write succinct briefings, presentations, and reports to convey analysis, threat trends, threat actor profiles, indicator bulletins, vulnerability details and defensive strategies to varied audiencesBachelor’s degree

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.