Company Overview
Intel 471 empowers enterprises, government agencies, and other organizations to win the cybersecurity war using the real-time insights about adversaries, their relationships, threat patterns, and imminent attacks relevant to their businesses. The company’s platform collects, interprets, structures, and validates human-led, automation-enhanced intelligence, which fuels our external attack surface and advanced behavioral threat hunting solutions. Customers utilize this operationalized intelligence to drive a proactive response to neutralize threats and mitigate risk. Organizations across the globe leverage Intel 471’s world-class intelligence, our trusted practitioner engagement and enablement, and globally-dispersed ground expertise as their frontline guardian against the ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats to fight the adversary — and win.
The Role
Intel 471 is looking for a junior Geopolitical Analyst (Analyst level I) with an understanding of global geopolitical issues and their cyber nexus to join our world-class team. The role can be located within the EU or UK on a remote basis.
Successful candidates will have a strong understanding of the global geopolitical environment and how it affects strategic operations. Candidates should have experience focussing on regional geopolitics and/or foreign affairs. Candidates must also have awareness of how the financially motivated cyber underground functions and how that intersects with wider geopolitics and foreign affairs. Candidates should be self-starters and who are comfortable creating something independently and working with little supervision.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Primarily support the regional desk leads within the Geopolitical Analysis team.
- Triage open source reports about key geopolitical events and draft daily intelligence reports.
- Contribute to maintaining catalog updates of published geopolitical reports on countries’ threat environments and state-backed cyber threat groups.
- Maintain a working knowledge of global geopolitics and foreign affairs and how this impacts wider strategic goals/aims of the respective regions and elsewhere.
- Seek opportunities to expand the team’s regional reporting coverage and suggest cross-regional themes for potential intelligence report curation.
- Be able to form and/or contribute to predictive assessments.
- Draw upon open and closed sources of intelligence to form well rounded, multi-sourced Finished Intelligence (FINTEL) reports.
- Work across multi-disciplined teams to draw upon experience and expertise towards a common goal.
Education, Experience and Qualification
- Experience creating and analytical reports, with a keen eye for detail.
- Comfortable contributing to ongoing and developing projects.
- Able to work under pressure, to tight and changing deadlines.
- Able to analyze large data sets and identify trends, patterns and anomalies to form unique intelligence.
- Open minded, stress resistant, and hands on.
- Understanding of the Intelligence Cycle and how it affects the analytical workflow.
- Clear and concise communication skills.
The role will report to the Sr. Director of Geopolitical Analysis, but will be expected to interact and work closely with other areas of the company as needed. The role is available anywhere within the EU or UK and involves occasional travel within the US, Europe and Asia. The role requires regular contact with our international team located in North America, South America, Western and Eastern Europe, and Asia so a comfort working with diverse professional and cultural backgrounds is required.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Remote-friendly culture
- Wellness programs
- Employee recognition program
- A variety of professional development opportunities
- Inclusive culture focused on people, customers and innovation
Our Culture
The Intel 471 team is constantly growing and always on the lookout for talented professionals who seek to operate on the forefront of the fight against threat actors impacting our customers and partners. Our culture of humility and quiet professionalism is a core attribute of Intel 471 and everyone within it. Our culture is collaborative, supportive and fast-paced. We're a mission-driven company. We're looking for talented, 'can-do' minded people with a passion for always doing the right thing.
We believe in supporting a progressive culture that allows all our people to be themselves, enjoy exciting opportunities and grow with us. That's why our culture is founded on our core values of openness, inclusion, integrity and client focus, which set the tone for how we work together and treat each other to empower us all – and foster a unique team spirit.
View our Culture Guide to find out more about us and what it’s like to work for Intel 471!
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Skills Required
- Strong understanding of global geopolitics and the cyber nexus
- Experience focusing on regional geopolitics and/or foreign affairs
- Awareness of how the financially motivated cyber underground functions
- Experience creating analytical reports with a keen eye for detail
- Ability to triage open-source reports and draft daily intelligence reports
- Ability to maintain catalog updates of published geopolitical reports and threat group profiles
- Ability to analyze large data sets and identify trends, patterns, and anomalies
- Understanding of the Intelligence Cycle and its effect on analytical workflow
- Clear and concise communication skills
- Self-starter able to work independently with little supervision
- Able to work under pressure to tight and changing deadlines
- Able to form and/or contribute to predictive assessments
- Experience drawing upon open and closed intelligence sources to produce Finished Intelligence (FINTEL)
- Comfortable working with diverse international teams
- Location: must be based in the EU or UK (remote role)
- Willingness to show ID on a video call to confirm identity
What We Do
Intel 471 is the premier provider of cybercrime intelligence. Intel 471 provides adversary and malware intelligence for leading intelligence, security and fraud teams. Our adversary intelligence is focused on infiltrating and maintaining access to closed sources where threat actors collaborate, communicate and plan cyber attacks. Our malware intelligence leverages our adversary intelligence and underground capabilities to provide timely data and context on malware and adversary infrastructure. Our team is comprised of intelligence operators and native speakers located where cybercriminals formerly operated with impunity and without consequence. Our pedigree is unmatched and we count upon a team with experience operating in the intelligence services, military, law enforcement and private threat intelligence companies in nearly every continent on earth. The mission of Intel 471 is to protect your organization, your products, your assets and your people.
