Cyber Strategic Intelligence - Associate - Cyber Security Operations

Profile Description

We're seeking someone to join our team asglobal Threat Hunting & Cybersecurity Detection organization. This role provides an opportunity to play a lead role in protecting our company, employees, clients, and our communities from cyber-attacks. Be part of a dedicated team where you will be challenged every day, collaborating with some of the best minds in the industry, and with world-class technology at your fingertips. As a Cyber Strategic Intelligence Analyst in the Mission Management Cell, you will orchestrate the Firm's operational threat intelligence communications, provide critical insights into emerging cyber threats with a focus on regional and global threats impacting the financial sector, and report to senior and executive management, coordinating with internal technical specialists to provide a comprehensive picture of the Firm's response to an ongoing cyber risk or threat. You will monitor and analyze cyber threat landscapes, focusing on threat and geopolitical trends. You will generate intelligence reports and provide strategic recommendations to support business continuity and mitigate risks. You will also play a critical role in promoting our cybersecurity strategy by correlating intelligence data with broader organizational security goals, working closely with internal teams, and external partners to ensure we stay ahead of the latest threats and regulations.

Cyber Data Risk and Resilience (CDRR)

The Cybersecurity organization's mission is to create an agile, adaptable organization with the skills and expertise needed to defend against increasingly sophisticated adversaries. This will be achieved by maintaining sound capabilities to identify and protect our assets, proactively assessing threats and vulnerabilities and detecting events, ensuring resiliency through our ability to respond to and recover from incidents and building awareness and increase vigilance while continually developing our cyber workforce.

Cyber

The Cybersecurity organization's mission is to create an agile, adaptable organization with the skills and expertise needed to defend against increasingly sophisticated adversaries. This will be achieved by maintaining sound capabilities to identify and protect our assets, proactively assessing threats and vulnerabilities and detecting events, ensuring resiliency through our ability to respond to and recover from incidents and building awareness and increase vigilance while continually developing our cyber workforce.

Technical
Specialist

This is a Associate position within our Technical Specialist function, which is responsible for providing extensive subject matter expertise and reinforcing the ability of business and technology audit teams to appropriately assess risk and determine and execute coverage.

Morgan Stanley is an industry leader in financial services, known for mobilizing capital to help governments, corporations, institutions, and individuals around the world achieve their financial goals.

At Morgan Stanley India, we support the Firm's global businesses, with critical presence across Institutional Securities, Wealth Management, and Investment management, as well as in the Firm's infrastructure functions of Technology, Operations, Finance, Risk Management, Legal and Corporate & Enterprise Services. Morgan Stanley has been rooted in India since 1993, with campuses in both Mumbai and Bengaluru. We empower our multi-faceted and talented teams to advance their careers and make a global impact on the business. For those who show passion and grit in their work, there's ample opportunity to move across the businesses for those who show passion and grit in their work.

Interested in joining a team that's eager to create, innovate and make an impact on the world? Read on…

What you'll do in the role:

• Threat Monitoring and Briefing: Conduct cyber threat analysis relevant to the financial services industry, specifically conducting research on existing and emerging cyber threat issues that may impact Morgan Stanley. This also include briefing senior stakeholders and the wider internal cyber community on the current threat landscape.
• Geopolitical Insights: Monitor and analyze how geopolitical and regulatory trends impact cyber risks in India and APAC regions.
• Metrics and Strategic Reporting: Produce tailored reports for internal teams, track and manage internal cyber metrics and collate relevant information on triage/remediation to summarize and offer actionable insights for leadership consumption, leveraging defined frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain and the equivalent.
• Collaboration: Work closely with internal stakeholders to ensure intelligence supports incident response and business decisions. This involves day-to-day operational delivery of threat intelligence for internal and external stakeholders, threat hunting, vulnerability management and malware analysis.
• Tooling Development: Support the advancement and enhancement of analytical products and methodologies to products to assist mitigation practices at a tactical and operational level.

What you'll bring to the role:

• Minimum 4 years of working experience in cyber intelligence roles within the financial sector, focusing on identifying, analyzing, and mitigating cyber threats specific to the financial sector, such as phishing and fraud schemes, business email compromise, and ransomware.
• Hands-on experience using OSINT tools and techniques to gather and analyze intelligence from open sources (e.g., forums, blogs, social media, dark web) relevant to the financial industry, with experience in structured intelligence methodologies to assess cyber threats.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to translate complex intelligence data into strategic recommendations for mitigating cyber risk for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of adversarial cyber actors, including their TTPs and the adversary lifecycle.
• Experience in quantifying the impact of cyber incidents on the financial sector.
• Experience liaising with a variety of technical and business stakeholders for effective collaboration and information sharing.
• Ability to build and maintain trusted relationships at all levels of the organization.
Preferred Skills
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
• Certifications such as GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence (GCTI), Certified Threat Intelligence Analyst (CTIA), or similar are a plus.
• Experience in cybersecurity, with a focus on stakeholder engagement in related roles.
• Working knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks and models, including MITRE ATT&CK.
• Experience with PowerAutomate, PowerBI, SharePoint Online, PowerPoint
• Self-driven and ability to work independently.

What you can expect from Morgan Stanley

We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 85 years. At our foundation are five core values — putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back — that guide our more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you'll find trusted colleagues, committed mentors and a culture that values diverse perspectives, individual intellect and cross-collaboration. Our Firm is differentiated by the caliber of our diverse team, while our company culture and commitment to inclusion define our legacy and shape our future, helping to strengthen our business and bring value to clients around the world. Learn more about how we put this commitment to action: morganstanley.com/diversity. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximise their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the global communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.