TECHNICAL LEAD - SOC 2

Job description

• Threat Intelligence and Advisory Management As part of this service, the IBM will perform the following: Threat Sources Covered Monitor, aggregate, and analyze threat intelligence and advisories from multiple sources, including but not limited to: • Commercial Threat Intelligence Platforms (e.g., Anomali, Recorded Future) • Vendor Security Advisories (e.g., Microsoft, Cisco, Palo Alto, Akamai) • Government and CERT Alerts (e.g., UAE CERT, US-CERT, ENISA) • Threat feeds from SOC and SIEM/SOAR platforms • Crowd-sourced threat platforms and Bug Bounty findings (e.g., Bugcrowd) • Open-source intelligence (OSINT) sources • Dark Web intelligence sources (where applicable) • Internal threat hunting findings • Partner advisories and industry-specific alerts. General Service Requirements • Maintain continuous monitoring and validation of incoming threat intelligence. • Analyse the potential impact of threats on the Group?s infrastructure, applications, users, and data. • Prioritize threat advisories based on business relevance, criticality, and risk exposure. • Provide actionable threat advisories with mitigation recommendations. • Integrate threat intelligence outputs with SOC, Incident Response, and Vulnerability Management processes. • Ensure threat intelligence-driven response activities are tracked, actioned, and closed. • Develop and maintain threat advisory and intelligence playbooks for standardized processes. Threat Detection and Collection • Collect and normalize threat advisories and intelligence feeds. • Validate the authenticity and credibility of threat sources. • Remove noise and false positives to focus on credible and impactful threats. Threat Analysis and Prioritization • Perform enrichment on threat data using internal telemetry and external datasets. • Correlate identified threats with the Group?s asset inventory and critical systems. • Prioritize threats based on risk to the business (high, medium, low impact). Threat Advisory Notification and Actioning • Prepare clear, actionable threat advisories including: • Threat description • Potential impact • Affected systems/services • Recommended immediate and long-term mitigation actions • Disseminate advisories to relevant stakeholders (e.g., IT, Security Operations, Business Units). • Raise Threat Advisory Tickets (TA Tickets) where action is required. • Assign and track closure of mitigation actions within agreed timelines. Threat Intelligence Playbooks • Develop structured playbooks for threat collection, validation, analysis, dissemination, and response. • Ensure continuous updating of playbooks based on evolving threat landscapes and operational lessons learned. • Align playbooks with MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, and other cybersecurity frameworks where applicable. Threat Campaign Monitoring • Identify ongoing threat campaigns targeting the Group?s sector or geography. • Provide early warnings on advanced persistent threats (APTs), ransomware groups, and significant actors. • Recommend preventive and defensive measures based on observed campaigns. Threat Hunting Support • Use threat intelligence to proactively identify indicators of compromise (IoCs) and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) that could already exist in the environment. • Support threat hunting activities based on high-fidelity threat intelligence and emerging threat patterns. Threat intelligent Platform Management & Operations • Perform daily, weekly, and monthly operational health checks. • Maintain and update threat intelligence feeds (commercial, open-source, and internal). • Perform platform upgrades, patches, and system tuning. • Ensure high availability and business continuity configurations are in place. • Monitor and manage platform performance and storage utilization. • Manage user access, roles, and permissions according to governance policies. • Enable role-based dashboards for SOC, IR, Threat Hunting, and Management. • Conduct quarterly access reviews. • Integrate various threat intelligence feeds (e.g., STIX/TAXII, MISP, ISACs). • Validate, de-duplicate, and normalize intelligence data. • Prioritize threat indicators based on relevance to the organization. • Regular review and curation of feeds for noise reduction and enrichment. • Integrate TIP with SIEM (e.g., QRadar, Splunk), SOAR, EDR, firewall, and other security controls. • Automate indicator enrichment and correlation in SOC tools. • Enable automated blocking of high-confidence IOCs in firewalls or proxy solutions. • Develop and maintain integration of playbooks and dataflow documentation. Cyber Security