Senior Associate, Threat and Vulnerability

Northern Trust

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Chicago, IL
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82 days ago
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About Northern Trust

Northern Trust is a leading provider of wealth management, asset servicing, asset management, and banking services to corporations, institutions, and high-net-worth individuals. Industry: Financial Services & Asset Management

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TL;DR · Senior Associate, Threat and Vulnerability

The Sr. Associate, Threat and Vulnerability joins the security team to identify and assess cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and exposures impacting business operations, technology platforms, and regulatory obligations. This role involves analyzing vulnerability scanning results across infrastructure, cloud, endpoints, applications, and container environments. The successful candidate will transform data into actionable recommendations, prioritizing remediation using CVSS, exploitability, threat intelligence, and business criticality. Key responsibilities include supporting Continuous Threat Exposure Management activities, monitoring adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures, and evaluating threat intelligence feeds. Required skills include experience with platforms like Zafran, Qualys, or Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management, alongside cloud security principles for Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud. The role solves the business problem of proactively reducing cyber risk within the financial services sector.

What you'll do

  • Analyze vulnerability scanning results across infrastructure, cloud, endpoints, applications, and container environments.
  • Assess new vulnerabilities, CVEs, and security advisories to determine organizational exposure.
  • Prioritize remediation efforts using CVSS, exploitability, threat intelligence, and business criticality.
  • Track remediation activities and provide reporting on vulnerability reduction initiatives.
  • Identify and assess attack paths and security weaknesses across the enterprise environment.
  • Monitor and assess emerging cyber threats, adversary activity, and industry trends.
  • Analyze threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures to determine potential impact.
  • Support remediation discussions with technology owners and business stakeholders.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
  • 3-5 years of experience in cyber security, vulnerability management, threat intelligence, security operations, or related fields.
  • Experience analyzing vulnerabilities and security risks within large enterprise environments.
  • Understanding of common attack methodologies and cyber threat actor behaviors.
  • Familiarity with vulnerability scoring methodologies such as CVSS.
  • Experience with vulnerability management platforms such as Zafran, Qualys, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management, or equivalent.
  • Understanding of cloud security principles across Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
  • Work Authorization.

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