Global Head of Threat Hunting

WTW
We are seeking passionate people to grow the Cyber Security team within WTW and provide an excellent service and trusted expertise to all parts of our business. As part of a business wide transformation, we have an exciting opening for a new role of Global Head of Threat Hunting. As part of the Cyber Defence and Security Operations department, you will be a senior leader managing the Global Threat Hunting and Forensics Team.You will need to have a good technical aptitude, excellent communicative skills to technical and non-technical audiences, and a solid business acumen to deal with other senior stakeholders across the business.You will need to have a good technical aptitude, excellent communicative skills to technical and non-technical audiences, and a solid business acumen to deal with other senior stakeholders across the business. This role would suit those with an extensive history in Incident Response, Threat Hunting and Threat Intelligence services who are used to working in a high-pressure environment and managing geographically dispersed teams across different time-zones. As the Global Head of Threat Hunting, your primary responsibilities will be:

• To ensure all parts of WTW are monitored by our Threat Services with robust processes in place to prevent cyber incidents occurring and to reduce their impact.
• Manage and develop a global team of L3 Threat Hunting and Forensic specialists, providing expert assistance during a major cyber incident and for routine investigations escalated by the SOC.
• Proactively analyse the WTW estate in a threat-led manner looking for signs of compromise, acting quickly upon threat intelligence updates.
• Develop working processes linking Threat Intelligence to Threat Hunting to enhance our Threat-led approach to cyber security.
• Assist the Global Head of Threat Intelligence develop our internal and third-party threat intelligence capabilities, focusing on sectors and geographies WTW operate in
• Develop automations within SIEM and Defender to repeat hunt processes and assist SOC analysts with automation for their investigations
• Integrate Threat Hunting to the vulnerability management program to ensure new vulnerabilities are identified and remediated
• Provide senior stakeholder and board level briefings.

Your teams’ key responsibilities:

• Cyber security related forensic investigations and assist with financial fraud investigations when required.
• Monitoring the entire WTW environment for signs of compromise and unauthorised actions
• Other relevant tasks as designated by the Global Director of Cyber Defence

Communications and Relationships

• Close working relationships will be needed with other team members around the globe
• You will need to work with technical contacts throughout the business and with multiple third parties
• You will need to brief the security leadership team, board member and other internal business units on threat related criteria

Essential: It is essential that you have extensive experience as a senior leader within an enterprise organisation(s) managing threat hunting and threat intelligence teams and related services

• Demonstrable experience working as a senior threat hunter or senior threat intelligence analyst
• A strong track record of dealing with cyber incidents within an L3 capacity
• A solid understanding of cyber risk and how cyber-attacks are conducted across endpoints, cloud and on-premise networks
• Fluent business English (written & oral)

Desirable:

• Experience within a Global SOC, either within an MSSP function or an internal enterprise level SOC
• Experience working with Sentinel and Defender for “X”
• Great verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to write reports, processes and procedures in a structured manner
• Previous exposure to a variety of compliance and regulatory requirements such as FCA, PCI, ISO27001, GDPR and other global regulations
• Experience running a global team sitting in different time zones

Equal Opportunity EmployerAt WTW, we believe difference makes us stronger. We want our workforce to reflect the different and varied markets we operate in and to build a culture of inclusivity that makes colleagues feel welcome, valued and empowered to bring their whole selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive work environment throughout our organization. We embrace all types of diversity.At WTW, we trust you to know your work and the people, tools, and environment you need to be successful. The majority of our colleagues work in a” hybrid” style, with a mix of at home and in-office interactions dependent on the needs of the team, role and clients. Our flexibility is rooted in trust and “hybrid” is not a one-size-fits-all solution.