Fresher Cyber Security Analyst Job Careers – Stanbic Bank
Job Title: Cyber Security Analyst
Organisation: Stanbic Bank
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited is a subsidiary of Stanbic Africa Holdings Limited which is in turn owned by Standard Bank Group Limited (“the Group”), Africa’s leading banking and financial services group. The Standard Bank Group is the leading banking group focused on emerging markets. It is the largest African banking group ranked by assets and earnings. Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited is the largest bank in Uganda by assets and market capitalization. It offers a full range of banking services through two business units; Personal and Business Banking (PBB), and Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB).
Job Summary: The role of Officer – Cybersecurity Operations is part of the Technology Risk and Information Security (TRIS) team. This role is dedicated to threat focused detection, response and recovery programs for the Bank’s Information Technology assets through efficient and effective application of cybersecurity expertise, methodologies and technologies.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Cybersecurity resilience assessments and attack path mapping to determine the Bank’s ability to detect, respond and recover from cybersecurity incidents and advise accordingly on requisite improvements in incident response, threat detection and reporting
- Implementation of the cybersecurity capability that includes Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Identity Based Detection with Microsoft Advanced Threat Analysis (ATA) and Security Incidents and Events Monitoring (SIEM) with Qradar, SLAM and any other open source solutions.
- Perform monitoring via the SIEM and other reporting consoles as well as external threat intelligence sources such as web and email and report all suspicious activity through periodic and event driven reports
- Cybersecurity Incident Response Team (CSIRT) activities such as reporting, analysis, response, containment, recovery and documentation as stipulated by the standard procedures
- Maintain up to date case management tools with evidence trails from all analyzed incidents
- Implementation of effectively logging for threat detection and investigation purposes. The logs must be protected and retained in line with Bank policies and procedures.
- Routinely reviewing all mission critical audit trails for material exceptions e.g. Fraud and abuse bank assets according to the Bank’s security policies and procedures
- Report new attack types and suspicious activity to the Manager and document results of all incidents.
- Support for FCC in collecting digital forensic evidence in the event of abuse according to the chain of custody and ensure the evidence collected in valuable in-line with the requirements of the judicial system and document findings for all investigated incidents
- Review the systems in the event of outages, processing errors and electronic failures to ascertain and advise on data integrity
- Continuously monitoring the environment for critical technology incidents support the banks cyber incident detection and response plans
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the Stanbic Bank Cyber Security Analyst job opportunity should hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, IT or a related subject
- Information Security and /or Information Technology industry certification (CCNA, CCNP, CISSP, CISM, CEH, CISSP-ISSMP, CISA, CRISC or GIAC equivalent) strongly preferred.
- One to two years of System Security experience – Threat Analysis, Threat Detection, NOC, Security Incident and Events Monitoring and Digital Forensics
- Minimum of 1-year focused Security experience in Incident Management/Intrusion (Forensics) Analysis/Reverse Engineering/Cyber Security Assessments, Attack and Penetration Testing;
- Working knowledge of these technologies or domains will be an added advantage (Microsoft Windows Servers OS, Active Directory, Unix AIX, Linux, Cisco IOS, Cloud Technologies, Qradar and Endpoint Threat Detection
- Advanced understanding of information security technologies such as SLAM, SIEM, Syslog, Firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems, Antivirus, Web & Content filtering solutions, Network Access Control etc.;
- Knowledge of Cyber Resilience frameworks
- Including knowledge of ITIL processes including change, incident and problem management.
- Including knowledge of standard business processes including work prioritization, best practices.
- Knowledge of domestic and international banking industry
- Including knowledge of the Bank’s business, products, key clients, business strategy and strategic issues
- Including knowledge of regulatory requirements of home markets
- Extensive general technical knowledge of information technology infrastructure.
- Strategic and executive management knowledge.
- Certificate in IT service management (ITIL)
- Ability to interpret complex data into meaningful information
- Knowledge and experience in Security operations
- Good understanding of the current state and strategic direction of IT Infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of the business climate and technology needs in the global enterprise.
- Negotiation experience, particularly across the geographies and cultures of a global organisation.
- Experience in dealing with global customers and suppliers, preferably in a relationship/account/executive management role
How to Apply:
All candidates who wish to join the one of Africa’s biggest Banking Groups, Stanbic Bank in the aforementioned capacity are encouraged to Apply Online by visiting Link below.