DefensiveCyberSecurityResearcher

**Job Description Summary** Location: Tel-Aviv, Israel #LI-Hybrid 3 days/week in office Internal job title: Assoc. Dir. DDIT ISC Security Research About the role: The Defensive Cyber Security Researcher will be part of a new Think Tank group of security researchers that will challenge Novartis information security defenses, application security and data protection. The Defensive Cyber Security Researcher will be responsible for participating in threat actor based investigations, creating new detection methodology and providing expert support to incident response and monitoring functions. The focus of the Defensive Cyber Security Researcher is to detect, disrupt and eradicate threat actors from enterprise networks, including emerging AI-driven and AI-assisted threats. To execute this mission, the Defensive Cyber Security Researcher will use data analysis, threat intelligence, and cutting-edge security technologies — with a growing emphasis on understanding how AI can be weaponized against the organization and how it can be leveraged defensively. The Defensive Cyber Security Researcher will identify and analyze patterns and changes in tactics, techniques and procedures used by attackers to attack Novartis IT infrastructure and management staff. The analysis will result in indicators of compromise, accurate understanding of the risk to Novartis IT infrastructure and prioritization of remediation efforts. **Job Description** **Key Responsibilities:** * Hunt through huge number of signals to identify new emerging threats, dissect them and extract meaningful insights and indicators of compromise. * Demonstrate adversary tactics to recognize and analyze malicious activity (techniques, tools and processes) based on a combination of behavioral activity and signature based analysis. * Participate in "hunting missions" using threat intelligence, analysis of anomalous log data and results of brainstorming sessions to detect and eradicate threat actors on the Novartis network. *