Cyber Crime Analyst

Job Title: Cybercrime Data Scientist

Location: Pune

About Barclays

Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

Risk and Control Objective

Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.

Working Flexibly

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.

If you would like some flexibility then please discuss this with the hiring manager.

Introduction:

• Support the triage and analyse intelligence related to cybercrime threats targeting Barclays customers


• Work with subject matter experts from the Barclays fraud teams to understand the existing cybercrime threat landscape

What will you be doing?

• Interpret synergies between pieces of intelligence in order to identify potential changes to the cybercrime threat landscape


• Identify and disseminate well formulated recommendations to teams across the bank to mitigate loss to the bank and its customers


• Help to maintain strong relationships with industry partners and law enforcement colleagues to enable Barclays to tackle cybercrime at an industry level


• Support the team while conducting deep-dive analysis on both successful and near miss fraud cases to draw out cyber-enabled fraud trends and identify required changes to the banks fraud control systems


• Work together with Cybercrime, Fraud and Financial Crime teams in the analysis of large and often complex datasets linked to cyber-financial cases, in order to generate actionable intelligence and new controls to prevent and detect further attacks against Barclays’ customers.


• Support the delivery of analysis into cyber threat campaigns, threat actors and threat evolution, placing into context the resulting current and future threat to Barclays.



• Contribute to the growth of the team’s technical capability and understanding of cyber-enabled fraud by utilising (learning if necessary) suitable tools and analysis.


• The successful candidate will be expected to respond to internal stakeholder cybercrime requirements, producing appropriate reports and management information for a range of audiences from senior executive level through to all staff.


• Provide advice and guidance to wider Intelligence team in relation to technical matters as and when required.


• Support and enhance the operational activity of the Cybercrime team in the monitoring of digital channels to detect cybercrime attacks, by using internally developed systems and industry-wide device profiling and behavioural biometric tools.

What we’re looking for:

• 1-2 years of experience working in either cyber-fraud intelligence collection & analysis or cyber-enabled fraud investigations or related fields. Ability to normalize and analyse large structured and unstructured datasets including but not limited to cyber data, electronic media and fraud system data in support of cybercrime root cause analysis.


• Knowledge in the collection of structured and unstructured data, sourcing missing data. Experience in examine, interpret and collect large sets of data. Data extraction and information processing to find patterns and trends, using technology to analyse data.


• Familiar with descriptive and prescriptive analysis, understanding data and distribution machine learning algorithms regression, clustering, bagging boosting, neural networks, confusion matrix, roc-auc curve, type I and type II errors, association analysis, frequent pattern mining, data mining, critical thinking to build KPIs for analysis based on defined problem.


• Statistics: probability, confidence interval, hypothesis testing, central limit theorem, t-test, z-test, chi-square and ANOVA


• Experience of using analytical tools and platforms such as i2, Quantexa, Splunk and SAS. Understanding intelligence analysis processes, including Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and closed source intelligence gathering, social media analysis, source verification, data fusion and link analysis.

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Knowledge on ETL process.


• Knowledge of latest cyber-enabled and cyber-facilitated fraud/scam trends and TTPs used by cybercriminals, including social engineering tactics. Knowledge of malicious tools used by cyber adversaries to target the financial sector including but not limited to eBanking Trojans, POS/ATM malware, mobile malware, webinjects, and phishing kits.


• Knowledge on fraud detection and prevention systems such as ThreatMetrix and BioCatch.


• Previous experience of Cyber Threat Intelligence methodologies such as investigative pivoting models, investigative frameworks, as well as MITRE ATT&CK, and the Extended Cyber Kill Chain.


• Knowledge of the payment card transaction chain and how it is attacked by cybercriminals to facilitate Card Not Present (CNP) fraud.


• Basic knowledge of security network architectures (e.g. Firewalls, DMZ, proxies, DNS, web and mail servers) and the principles of network security.


• Familiarity with Python/Perl/Bash scripting and database languages such as SQL.

Where will you be working?

Pune

Be More at Barclays

At Barclays, each day is about being more – as a professional, and as a person. ‘Be More @ Barclays’ represents our core promise to all current and future employees. It’s the characteristic that we want to be associated with as an employer, and at the heart of every employee experience. We empower our colleagues to Be More Globally Connected, working on international projects that improve the way millions of customers handle their finances. Be More Inspired by working alongside the most talented people in the industry, and delivering imaginative new solutions that are redefining the future of finance. Be More Impactful by having the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects, and Be More Valued for who you are.

Interested and want to know more about Barclays? Visit home.barclays/who-we-are/ for more details.

We deploy finance responsibly to support people and businesses, acting with empathy and integrity, championing innovation and sustainability, for the common good and the long term.

Our values underpin everything we do: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.

Respect

We harness the power of diversity and inclusion in our business, trust those we work with, and value everyone's contribution.

Integrity

We operate with honesty, transparency and fairness in all we do.

Service

We act with empathy and humility, putting the people and businesses we serve at the centre of what we do.

Excellence

We champion innovation, and use our energy, expertise and resources to make a positive difference.

Stewardship

We prize sustainability, and are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.

Our Mindset shapes how we take action, living by our Values, driven by our Purpose, always with our customers and clients at the heart of what we do; our Mindset is to Empower, Challenge and Drive.

Empower

Trust and support each other to deliver. Make decisions with those closest to the topic. Include diverse perspectives. Celebrate success and learn from failure.

Challenge

Question whether things can be done better. Use insights based on data to inform decisions. Be curious about how we can adapt and improve. Speak up and be open to alternative viewpoints.

Drive

Focus on outcomes. Deliver with pace. Be passionate and ambitious about what we do. Take personal responsibility. Actively build collaborative relationships to get things done.

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