Cyber Security Technician

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- /ph3Who we are supporting /h3pThe NATO Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) is responsible for providing secure and effective communications and information technology (IT) services to NATO's member countries and its partners. The agency was established in 2012 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. /ppThe NCIA provides a wide range of services, including: /pulliCyber Security: The NCIA provides advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect NATO's communication networks and information systems against cyber threats. /liliCommand and Control Systems: The NCIA develops and maintains the systems used by NATO's military commanders to plan and execute operations. /liliSatellite Communications: The NCIA provides satellite communications services to enable secure and reliable communications between NATO forces. /liliElectronic Warfare: The NCIA provides electronic warfare services to support NATO's mission to detect, deny, and defeat threats to its communication networks. /liliInformation Management: The NCIA manages NATO's information technology infrastructure, including its databases, applications, and servers. /li /ulpOverall, the NCIA plays a critical role in ensuring the security and effectiveness of NATO's communication and information technology capabilities. /ph3The program /h3h3Assistance and Advisory Service (AAS) /h3pThe NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) is NATO’s principal C3 capability deliverer and CIS service provider. It provides, maintains and defends the NATO enterprise-wide information technology infrastructure to enable Allies to consult together under Article IV, and, when required, stand together in the face of attack under Article V. /ppTo provide these critical services, in the modern evolving dynamic environment the NCI Agency needs to build and maintain high performance-engaged workforce. The NCI Agency workforce strategically consists of three major categorise's: NATO International Civilians (NIC)'s, Military (Mil), and Interim Workforce Consultants (IWC)'s. The IWCs are a critical part of the overall NCI Agency workforce and make up approximately 15 percent of the total workforce. /pp--
- /ph3Role ID – C /h3h3Role Duties and Responsibilities /h3ulliThe duties of the individual mainly focus on: /liliInformation Assurance incident management; /lili24/7 helpdesk service management; /liliManagement of Secure Management Centre's (SMC) including: key management, access control management, security monitoring, IP crypto configuration management, error location and recovery, data base back up, alarm handling; /liliManagement of NATO Wide PKI user profiles, CA certificates, End-User certificates, other root CA domains certificates, CRLs and ARLs /liliProvide technical support and assistance to ACO wide and NATO Agencies and National MODs /liliCyber Security 24/7 watch-keeping duties such as: receiving advisories from national and non-government CERTs, disseminating general incident related information to CIS operating authorities, providing technical support and assistance to NATO CIS operating authorities in respect to malicious code prevention, providing liaison with other CERTs, providing limited technical support and assistance to NATO CIS operating authorities in respect to intrusion detection, performing initial incident response, recovery, and reporting activities in support of operational NATO CIS, reporting incidents and vulnerabilities to the Cyber Security sections, coordinating the collection and processing of all cyber related information for NU, NR, MS and NS systems, providing centralized on line Vulnerability Assessment of remote networks and interfaces; /liliSupport incident response and reporting activities; /liliCyber Security Information Sharing Services
- This Service provides the dissemination and/or production of different type of documents/updates such as: Cyber Security Daily news, Trend Micro Patterns, replication of Trend Micro Active Repository, McAfee updates, Juniper Signatures, ExtraDat, Cyber Defence SitRep Bulletins, NATO Identified Malware Black List (NIMBL); /liliInternet e-mail and Internet-Facing Web Sites monitoring Service – Internet Facing Email Content Monitoring: Checking of all Inbound/Outbound Internet e-mail to ensure compliance with NATO and applicable local Security Polices; such checks include malicious code, executable content, encrypted content, SPAM, and Classified Data content; /liliInternet Web Site monitoring
- The ability to centrally monitor customer's Internet-facing Web Sites for unauthorised changes and to take appropri