Lead Consultant Specialist

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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realize their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Lead consultant specialist 

In this role you will:

• Hunting for malicious or anomalous activity across the enterprise, using existing tools. Acting in co-ordination with GCO staff to lead the development and implementation of an advanced analysis and search capability focused on identifying potentially sophisticated APT and insider threat activities within the organization.
• Researching new and existing threat actors and associated tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs); developing a detailed understanding of their potential impact to the organization, providing recommended solutions for improving our defensive and detective capability.
• Collaboration with the wider Cybersecurity functions, e.g., Red Team, to develop hypotheses for new attack techniques and evasion methods.
• Coordinating threat hunting activities, leveraging intelligence from multiple internal and external sources.
• Reviewing incident and penetration testing reports and corresponding logs, to identify gaps in our detection capability and provide recommendations to improve them.
• Providing expert analytic investigative support on large scale and complex security incidents.
• Contributing to the continued evolution of hunting, monitoring, detection, analysis and response capabilities and processes
• Training, developing, mentoring, and inspiring colleagues across the function in area(s) of specialism, strengthening Cybersecurity Operations capabilities.
• Represent HSBC Global Cybersecurity Operations at internal awareness and external cybersecurity forums.
• Collaborate with the wider Cybersecurity (and IT) teams to ensure that the core, underlying technological capabilities that underpin an effective and efficient operational response to current and anticipated threats and trends remain fit for purpose.
• Identify processes that can be automated and orchestrated to ensure maximum efficiency of Global Cybersecurity Operations resources.