Threat Intelligence Specialist

Threat Intelligence Specialist

Locations : Palo Alto

Base Salary Range : $142,000 - $226,000

X's Threat Disruption team provides expert scaled investigative support into various platform related threats including violations of our platform safety and integrity policies. Our objective is to increase the costs to bad actors for manipulating the platform and mitigate associated harm.

Responsibilities :

• Build heuristic rules to detect and stop bad actors on X, and contribute to building other detection systems and Safety product features.
• Use data analysis to identify signals used by bad actors on X, develop threat actor profiles, and complete scaled investigations into those signals / bad actors.
• Conduct threat modeling to improve threat detection and mitigation.
• Investigate anomalies and scaled threats detected by other Safety or partner teams.
• Perform continuous research based on open source and internal tooling on specific threats, including threat actors and campaigns, to determine detection and enforcement gaps for X Rules and policies. This includes campaign tracking and trending evaluation.
• Work closely with Engineering teams to retroactively retroactively remediate on-platform threats and create heuristics to proactively prevent threats from reoccurring.
• When needed, produce brief bulletins, assessments, or full-length profiles of actors for stakeholders delivered in a timely and contextual manner.
• Manage external and internal Threat Intelligence partnerships on behalf of X. This includes optimizing and managing data sources of threat intelligence information.

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