Threat Simulation 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 Simulation Analyst to join our Group CISO team.

You'll play a key role in fusing together strategic, operational and tactical threat intelligence across L&G to support and inform the creation and delivery of engaging threat simulations - collaborating with key stakeholders across the organisation to test L&G’s ability to respond to cyber attacks.

What you’ll be doing:

• Developing threat simulation exercises and scheduling quarterly (at least) exercises with all Group Business Units
• Reviewing threat intelligence, data and trends and creating CSIRT exercises that support the development of mitigations
• Developing and creating metrics by which progress of the threat simulation exercises can be demonstrated
• Leading regular reviews with internal stakeholders to obtain and ensure that current and possible threats are exercised to best practice
• Conducting threat intelligence research utilising open source, paid, community and national feeds to monitor and assess current and emerging threats that could pose a risk to L&G
• Coordinating with other security and operational teams to ensure any threat assessments and actions are progressed as required
• Producing written or verbal threat intelligence artifacts as required, identifying trends within physical security, cyber security or geo-politics
• Defining, developing and delivering processes and systems to ensure a consistent and good level of service that means divisions can comply with all regulatory and security requirements

Who we’re looking for:

• Strong understanding of Strategic, Operational and Tactical threat intelligence
• A current understanding of cyber security incidents and how they could be practised within exercises to test the resilience of L&G
• Experience in the creation and implementation of short-term and long-term plans for developing a programme of exercises
• Threat intelligence and/or Information Technology industry certification (CREST, SANS or equivalent) would be great
• Prior experience of delivering tabletop exercises or crisis simulations 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.