Junior Cybersecurity Vulnerability Analyst

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The world is rapidly moving towards more efficient power distribution to support renewable, greener technologies.

At Hitachi Energy, we are at the forefront of this revolution, delivering cutting-edge solutions to customers and countries across the globe. Our mission is not just a goal, but a passion that drives us every day.

However, our journey to a greener future faces the challenge of an increasingly complex and disruptive cybersecurity landscape. This is where you come in.

This role is pivotal in identifying, assessing, managing, and reporting cybersecurity vulnerabilities across our organization's digital environment, ensuring that our innovative work in renewable energy remains uninterrupted.

You will have the opportunity to expand your professional network across various cybersecurity disciplines, including Threat Intelligence and Incident Response.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Vulnerability Handling: Ensure the effective delivery of vulnerability management services by actively participating in the entire process lifecycle. Log and monitor discovered vulnerabilities. Ensure that risks are properly logged and tracked according to defined policies. Prioritize remediation tasks based on assessed risk levels, assign them to the relevant system owner, and monitor progress until completion.

  • Identification and Prioritization: Collect, analyze and assess vulnerabilities from various sources and monitor threat intelligence inputs oversee documentation maintenance, reporting findings and monitor key performance indicators.

  • Patch review: Assess and analyze the risks linked to security patches issued by major vendors. Recommend suitable mitigation strategies and compile comprehensive reports detailing the associated vulnerability risks and their potential impact on business operations.

  • Stakeholder management: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely remediation of vulnerabilities. Identify stakeholders, ensure exceptions are properly documented, prepare, and deliver reporting as needed.

  • Continuous Improvement: Identify service gaps and contribute to the continuous improvement of our vulnerability management services to stay ahead of cyber threats.

Requirements:

  • Education:Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (Preferred).

  • Technical Skills:Basic understanding of cybersecurity principles and familiarity with common vulnerabilities scoring systems and frameworks (e.g. CVSS; CWE, Known Exploits Databases, etc.).

  • Other skills:Familiarity with data reporting and analysis tools, ability to correlate and summarize complex information into actionable points.

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