Principal Consultant, Proactive Services, Cyber Threat Intelligence (Unit 42)

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

Job Description

Your Career

Principal Consultant, Threat Intelligence Advisory is a senior-level consulting position within Unit 42 Proactive Services team. The individual will work alongside the Consulting Director of Threat Intelligence Advisory EMEA in providing threat intelligence insights to clients via threat assessments, in support of cyber risk management engagements (i.e. intel-led red teaming, table top exercises, SOC assessments) and advising enterprise clients on how to improve their threat intelligence capabilities.

The Principal Consultant should have a hands-on mentality, ability to work on complex engagements independently, and flexibility to be involved in various work streams depending on their skills and business needs. You will be a clear self-starter who understands how to complete high-level tasking and uses your knowledge and skills to meet goals and deadlines. While the individual will be given time to pursue their research interests and to work alongside Unit 42 Threat Intelligence team, for the majority of their time they will be involved in client engagements.

Your Impact

• Assist Unit 42 Consulting Director of Threat Intelligence Advisory in developing and delivering threat-informed services to international clients.

• Lead Threat Intelligence Advisory engagements such as threat assessments, threat intelligence maturity assessments, threat intelligence capability building, threat-led offensive security testing

• Provide intelligence input for risk management consulting engagements (e.g. SOC Assessments)

• Leverage internal Unit 42 datasets and finished intelligence, as well as OSINT, to identify relevant threats to organisations across sectors and geographies.

• Work with security teams at clients (i.e. TI, CISO, SOC, threat hunting, red team) to help them operationalise threat intelligence into measurable outcomes.

• Amplify Unit 42s’ presence and credibility in the marketplace through thought leadership, including via speaking engagements, and blog articles on threat intelligence topics.

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 7+ years of demonstrated experience in a threat intelligence function, whether in consulting or in-house.

• Excellent English written and verbal communications skills.

• Strong familiarity with the Mitre ATT&CK framework.

• Passionate about cyber threat intelligence and its tradecraft, attention to details.

• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.

• Demonstrable experience in directly improving CTI processes and procedures of large enterprises, whether in house or as a consultant.

• Deep understanding of cybercriminal and state-sponsored groups, their TTPs and high level mitigations.

While we do not expect you to tick all the boxes, a successful candidate will have a combination of some of the following:

• Experience in intelligence led-red team exercises like CBEST, TIBER, iCAST, Corie.

• Knowledge of threat actors hunting tools and techniques (e.g. VT, Passive DNS)

• Experience in incident response, digital forensic, or security operations.

• Experience in risk management consulting advising clients on appropriate security controls.

• Additional language skills to interface with regional clients (i.e. Arabic, German, Spanish)

• Proficiency in scripting languages or AI prompt engineering to automate tasks.

• Cybersecurity industry certifications such as CRTIA, CCTIM, GCTI are a plus but not essential.

Additional Information

The Team

Unit 42 Consulting is Palo Alto Network's security advisory team. Our vision is to create a more secure digital world by providing the highest quality incident response, risk management, and digital forensic services to clients of all sizes. Our team is composed of recognized experts and incident responders with deep technical expertise and experience in investigations, data breach response, digital forensics, and information security. With a highly successful track record of delivering mission-critical cybersecurity solutions, we are experienced in working quickly to provide an effective incident response, attack readiness, and remediation plans with a focus on providing long-term support to improve our clients’ security posture

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at [email protected].

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.