Threat Intelligence Analyst

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. 

We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders. 

We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.  

Our Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best.  

Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day. 

We're looking for a Threat Intelligence Analyst to join our Group CISO team.

You'll proactively monitor the threat landscape and keep the business updated on anything that poses a risk to L&G. You'll also monitor threat actors and the tactics, techniques and procedures utilised to update the protection, detection and response in place at L&G. This will include proactively monitoring for adverse changes in security posture across L&G’s supply chain, assessing the risk associated to any identified issues, and where appropriate, working with the affected Supplier Relationship Manager to help remediate the identified issue.

What you’ll be doing:

• Analysing and understanding threat actors’ tactics, techniques and procedures, translating this into operational activities for colleagues to undertake
• Ensuring the business is updated across strategic, operational and tactical threat intelligence with any changes to the threat landscape highlighted
• Dynamically assessing the risk associated with any identified issues or alerts and prioritising response activity as appropriate
• Managing requirements from business stakeholders and creating artefacts that are ingested by the business
• Monitoring for adverse changes in security posture across L&G’s supply chain, assessing the risk associated with any identified issues, and where appropriate, working with the affected supplier relationship manager to help remediate the identified issue
• Maintaining the threat intelligence platforms on an ongoing basis, ensuring the platforms and services remain fit for purpose
• Working closely across L&G CISO security teams, including Security Operations and Vulnerability Management, to ensure intelligence is ingested and shared effectively

Who we’re looking for:

• Working knowledge of Threat Intelligence Platforms and threat feeds (STIX/TAXII)
• A good understanding of strategic, operational and tactical threat intelligence
• Strong analytical skills and an eye for detail
• Ability to identify and evaluate the effectiveness of security controls and communicate the associated cyber risk
• Experience in managing third-party relationships would be great
• Threat Intelligence and /or Cyber Security certification (CPTIA, CRTIA, CCTIM, GCTI, GOSI, GSOA or equivalent) would be a huge plus!

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. 

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can. 

It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.