HSBC (Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation) is in search of a Threat Hunter/ Project Manager for their team in Hyderabad. This role offers an opportunity for fresh graduates from any discipline to step into the world of cybersecurity and project management. As a Threat Hunter/ Project Manager, the chosen candidate will play a crucial role in identifying and mitigating potential security threats while overseeing project execution. This position provides an excellent entry point for individuals eager to embark on a career in cybersecurity within the banking sector.
Company Name: HSBC (Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation)
Job Role: Threat Hunter/ Project Manager
Education Required: Any Graduate
Experience Required: Freshers
Job Location: Hyderabad
Role and Responsibilities:
- Hunting for malicious or anomalous activity across the enterprise, using existing tools. Acting in coordination 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 the area(s) of specialism, strengthening Cybersecurity Operations capabilities.
Required Skills and Qualification:
- Excellent investigative skills, insatiable curiosity, and an innate drive to win.
- Instinctive and creative, with an ability to think like the enemy.
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Deep knowledge of hacker culture.
- Developed an external peer network for sharing intelligence.
- Self-motivated and possessing a high sense of urgency and personal integrity.
- Excellent understanding of HSBC cyber security principles, global financial services business models, regional compliance regulations, and laws.
- Excellent understanding and knowledge of common industry cyber security frameworks, standards, and methodologies, including OWASP, ISO2700x series, PCI DSS, GLBA, EU data security and privacy acts, FFIEC guidelines, CIS, and NIST standards.
- Proven experience in identifying and responding to advanced attacker methodologies both within the corporate environment as well as external attack infrastructures, ideally with offensive experience and/ or deception environment development (tripwire systems, honeypots, honey-token/accounts, etc.) using open source, vendor purchased and bespoke/in-house developed solutions.
