Insider Risk Specialist, Insider Threat Program

About the role

We are seeking an Insider Risk Specialist to support the continued development of our Insider Threat Program. The role involves developing and implementing insider risk mitigation strategies, conducting complex insider threat investigations, and fostering cross-functional alignment.

Responsibilities

• Apply insider risk mitigation strategies.
• Lead complex, sensitive insider threat investigations from signal to evidence, timeline, interviews, documentation, and team handoff.
• Design and execute proactive threat hunts and convert findings into actionable investigations and detections.
• Maintain and improve the insider threat program by identifying gaps, metrics, and investment opportunities.
• Aid in risk assessments for crown jewel analysis, sensitive roles, and high-risk activity.
• Foster cross-functional alignment by building relationships throughout GEICO.

Requirements

• 4+ years' experience in cybersecurity, incident response, intelligence, insider threat, or counterintelligence.
• Familiarity with procedures and signs of malicious insider activity (fraud, theft, sabotage, espionage).
• Proven success implementing strategies at scale.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for executive audiences.
• Strong relationship-building skills with internal, external, and industry peers.
• Use advanced OSINT techniques to find information from public sources, social media, online activity, commercial data, and specialized tools.
• Create organized, timely reports—such as investigative findings, analytical reviews, incident summaries, and threat analyses—that are suitable for both technical and general readers.
• Skilled in using Threat Hunting tools, with hands-on experience analyzing machine and user activity logs.
• Familiar with querying data sets or working with SIEM platforms.
• Capable of interpreting activity logs generated by machines and users.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in establishing and advancing a formal Insider Threat Program (InTP), encompassing the development of playbooks, detection frameworks, and cross-functional governance models within a corporate or government context.
• Ability to leverage automation toolsets to enhance intelligence gathering and manual tasks, utilizing scripting languages such as Python.
• Proven track record in identifying and investigating insider threats in a cloud-based software or platform organization, with comprehensive knowledge of data access patterns, privileged user risks, and intellectual property theft vectors unique to SaaS and PaaS environments.

Pay

Annual Salary: $75,000.00 - $160,000.00. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.