Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. We’re a diverse collection of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining our products, systems, and practices to help people do what they love in new ways. This is a deeply collaborative place, where everything we create is the result of people in different roles and teams working together to make each other’s ideas stronger. That same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices, strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it.The senior threat intelligence analyst is responsible for spearheading and leading intelligence analysis efforts to support internal customers and strengthen Apple’s information security posture. This individual will help build and expand Apple’s threat intelligence capability, to include:Data evaluation - improve program quality by providing quantitative feedback on data quality and quantityOperational analysis - identify and document the tools, techniques and procedures used by attackersStrategic analysis - derive a complete picture of an attacker by analyzing attacker motivations, organizations, and networks using a target-centric methodology

Key Qualifications

• Experience developing and delivering intelligence products to support operational teams and incident response efforts.
• Ability to work with business partners to understand and address their intelligence needs.
• Knowledge of cyber threat landscape - including tracked actors, commonly used TTPs, and targets of past campaigns.
• Experience using common threat landscape frameworks like Mitre ATT&CK, Diamond Model, Cyber Kill Chain
• Ability and experience developing actionable intelligence products for a diverse customer base

Description

Influence what data sources need to be collected to perform threat intelligence analysis to better protect Apple employees and users from a wide range of cyber threats.Perform functional data analysis to develop profiles of adversaries to identify their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) derived from analysis of malware, actions taken on compromised hosts, and successful or attempted data theftLead strategic data analysis activity in order to attribute cyber attacks to threat actors. This will apply knowledge of the current geopolitical climate, current product and business lines, analysis of targeting, and timing of activity to understand an attacker motivations.Develop and report intelligence analysis findings to incident response teams, senior leadership, and external partnersProduce brief bulletins, assessments, or full-length profiles of actors delivered in a timely and contextual mannerOwn and manage relationships with external threat intelligence partners to include regular in-person meetings with threat intel partnersDevelop and mentor staff in intelligence analysis, cyber operations, and operational security