Threat Intelligence Cover Letter

Please consider me for the threat intelligence opportunity. I am including my resume that lists my qualifications and experience.

Previously, I was responsible for situational and actionable cyber threat intelligence awareness to appropriate stakeholders through clear and concise communications and scheduled reports.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Experience building, managing, and performing daily analytic tasks within Threat Intelligence (TI), Security Operations Centers (SOC), Cyber Security Operations Centers (CSOC), and Cyber Incident Response Teams (CIRT)
• A clear knowledge of TI processes from a practitioner’s perspective
• A forward thinking view of how TI processes and systems integrate across a CSOC organization to drive cyber operations by providing situational awareness of, and enabling active defense against cyber threats
• Expert knowledge of threat hunting practices, including threat modeling and content development for analysis and presentation through Splunk
• A service-first work ethic, focused on ensuring customer success
• A mentor leadership style, focused on the continual development and growth of junior analysts
• Self-driven and fully accountable for independent effort performed as part of a geographically dispersed team
• Able to lead teams developing and operationalizing TI, consisting technical personnel directly supporting incident response, system owners, and executives

In response to your job posting for threat intelligence, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

Previously, I was responsible for leadership and mentorship to junior threat intelligence analysts in support of product development, investigations, operations, and threat collection activities.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Extensive Cyber Security focused experience, threat intelligence or related IT experience
• Experience in management of Internet brand identity
• Knowledge of network- and reputation-based attacks and mitigation methods
• Experience summarizing complex information security concepts and ongoing threat events for management consumption
• An understanding of commonly used targeted attack techniques, tactics, and procedures
• Familiarity with security analysis technologies and how they are used for security analysis
• Expertise with log analysis and event correlation
• CISSP, GIAC, or other security recognition desirable

In response to your job posting for threat intelligence, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

Previously, I was responsible for expertise for developing and implementing a company's cyber threat intelligence capability, federated across multiple operational units.

I reviewed the requirements of the job opening and I believe my candidacy is an excellent fit for this position. Some of the key requirements that I have extensive experience with include:

• Advanced knowledge of networking concepts and web technologies
• Advanced knowledge of Windows, UNIX / Linux, and OS X operating systems
• Experience as a mid-to-senior level intelligence analyst, regardless of intelligence domain
• Experience performing system, network, application, and malicious code analysis
• Experience applying threat and data modeling, advanced data correlation, and statistical analysis to develop alerts, notable events, investigative dashboards, and metrics driven reports in Splunk
• Track record of technical publication and presentation of information security topics
• C|EH, GCIH, CISSP or equivalent certification
• Full understanding of the Intelligence Lifecycle

I would like to submit my application for the threat intelligence opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In the previous role, I was responsible for cogent cyber threat intelligence analysis to various internal teams in written and oral form.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Develop and produce written intelligence reports (tactical and strategic) constructed from analysis of developing cyber events and norms
• Familiar with programing or scripting languages
• Knowledge of virtual environments, network operating systems, mobile device environments, and data encryption methods
• Demonstrated expertise in communication protocols, network operating systems, servers, firewall implementation, IPS/IDS systems, and advanced malware detection systems
• Of the following preferred (CISSP, GIAC, EnCE, CCE, CEH)
• Experience in threat intelligence
• Interest in cyber security trends and developments
• Preferably a relevant certification like CISSP

Please consider me for the threat intelligence opportunity. I am including my resume that lists my qualifications and experience.

In my previous role, I was responsible for thought leadership around data science and analytics in a cyber threat intelligence context.

I reviewed the requirements of the job opening and I believe my candidacy is an excellent fit for this position. Some of the key requirements that I have extensive experience with include:

• Expert or advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio) and SharePoint
• Collect threat data/information
• Build automation to improve data processing
• Implement enrichment features by leveraging commercial and open source tools/API
• Demonstrated expertise in incident response and/or network forensics
• Strong industry knowledge of information security and the threat landscape
• Strong understanding of information systems and communication protocols
• Proactive problem solver and highly-developed sense of curiosity