Cybersecurity Detection Engineer

Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO, UN, EU, and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services, specialised aerospace and defence sales, delivery, and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.

Who we are supporting

The 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.

The NCIA provides a wide range of services, including:

• Cyber Security: The NCIA provides advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect NATO’s communication networks and information systems against cyber threats.
• Command and Control Systems: The NCIA develops and maintains the systems used by NATO’s military commanders to plan and execute operations.
• Satellite Communications: The NCIA provides satellite communications services to enable secure and reliable communications between NATO forces.
• Electronic Warfare: The NCIA provides electronic warfare services to support NATO’s mission to detect, deny, and defeat threats to its communication networks.
• Information Management: The NCIA manages NATO’s information technology infrastructure, including its databases, applications, and servers.

Overall, the NCIA plays a critical role in ensuring the security and effectiveness of NATO’s communication and information technology capabilities.

The program

Assistance and Advisory Service (AAS)

The 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.

To 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.

Role ID – C

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain detection rules, alerts, and analytics across SIEM, EDR/XDR, NDR, and Cloud Security Tools.
• Implement detection logic using relevant languages (Sigma, SPL and KQL).
• Develop detections aligned with adversary behaviours and MITRE ATT&CK framework, focusing on Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) targeting NATO alliance.
• Develop detections from available threat intelligence, participate in purple teaming events within NCSC and evaluate recommendations from Threat Hunting Team.
• Maintain and improve a structured detection engineering lifecycle established in CSOC, including: Design, Development, Testing, Deployment, Monitoring, Improvement and Review phases.
• Support CSOC efforts in improving Detection-as-Code practices and version control for detection content.
• Review and improve existing detection quality metrics established in CSOC.
• Conduct detection coverage assessments across monitored on-premise and cloud-based NATO infrastructure, in order to perform gap analysis against Adversary TTPs relevant to NATO infrastructure.
• Support CSOC threat modelling efforts in order to determine where detection capabilities should be improved.
• Define priorities for new detections based on the NATO attack surface, known risks, current trends and available intelligence.
• Collaboration with other Sections within NCSC and Defend
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• Support incident handling team (CSIRT) by developing new detections based on newly released reports about vulnerabilities affecting NATO enterprise and information gathered during CSIRT`s operations.
• Collaborate with Threat Hunting Team (CTIS) to operationalise their findings into automated detections where applicable.
• Support the design of detection strategies for new technologies, platforms, and network architectures which could be introduced to CSOC, through various NATO projects.
• Review newly-ingested log data to ensure it aligns with the Splunk Common Information Model (CIM); carry out periodic audits, verify field extractions and event-type mappings, and liaise with data-source owners to resolve any inconsistencies or gaps.
• Provide security