PayPal Sr Cyber Threat Intel Analyst 

France, Occitania, Toulouse 

187751607

Essential Responsibilities:

• Independently apply security best practices to enhance and optimize cyber threat management, ensuring robust protection and efficiency, while beginning to understand and align security measures with business objectives.
• Partner with peers and internal teams to drive security initiatives, contribute to cross-functional projects, and at times co-lead efforts to strengthen security posture and cyber threat management.
• Analyze and resolve security challenges by adapting standard cyber threat management processes and exploring alternative approaches to address complex threats.
• Influence the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of the team through informed decision-making, with a potential impact on other teams.
• Collaborate with key partners to gather and incorporate feedback, driving continuous improvements in cyber threat management.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Threat Actor Profiling

• Identify and monitor external threat groups targeting PayPal, analyzing their intent, opportunity and capabilities based on associated attack campaigns, TTPs, indicators of compromise (IOCs), and victimology.

• Develop comprehensive profiles for relevant threat actors to inform strategic defense initiatives.

Threat Actor Campaign Analysis

• Provide situational awareness of ongoing attack campaigns of interest, enumeratingattacker TTPs for further investigation.

• Conduct in-depth analyses to pivot to responsible threat actors and maintain an updated understanding of their activities.

Threat Infrastructure Counterintelligence

• Identify and assess the validity of potential attacker infrastructure based on inputsfrom other Cyber Threat Intelligence services.

• Confirmed attacker infrastructure will be shared with internal teams and external partners to facilitate proactive mitigation efforts.

Activity Group Monitoring

• Analyze internal incident data sources to identify trends, attack patterns, andpotential threat actor groups actively impacting the organization.

• Collaborate with incident response teams to enhance detection capabilities and response strategies.

TTP Analysis

• Conduct targeted technical analyses of individual tactics, techniques, andprocedures utilized in attack campaigns by threat actors of interest.

• Forward analysis results to internal teams for improved detection, mitigation, and vulnerability assessments.

Skills we think will make you successful in this role include:

• Proficient understanding of attack methodologies, TTPs, and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and Diamond Model Analysis.

• Experience with threat intelligence platforms and tools for data collection and analysis.

• Strong analytical writing and critical thinking skills with the ability to synthesize complex information into actionable intelligence.

• Excellent communication skills, capable of conveying technical findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Familiarity with incident response processes and collaboration with cross-functional teams is a plus.

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

The US national annual pay range for this role is $111,500 to $191,950

Our Benefits:

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