IT Security Analyst - Junior
EPITEC · Framingham, MA · Yesterday
Information Technology$40–$45/hrContract
Responsibilities
- Research and monitor the social engineering threat landscape to inform risk-based simulation priorities, campaign themes, and timely response recommendations.
- Plan, coordinate, execute, and evaluate social engineering simulations and testing, including phishing, vishing, and other relevant scenarios where appropriate.
- Analyze campaign performance, user trends, reporting behaviors, and root causes to identify patterns and opportunities for focused and role-based training.
- Translate simulation results and security signals into practical training recommendations, reinforcement needs, and behavior-focused improvement opportunities.
- Support in-the-moment and event-driven reinforcement for unplanned or time-sensitive communications, helping reinforce secure behaviors.
- Develop clear metrics, dashboards, and leadership-ready summaries that connect human insights to business outcomes and measurable behavior change.
- Identify opportunities to streamline, automate, and improve reporting processes, including centralized metrics and KPIs for Cyber Engagement.
- Collaborate with Awareness and Training, Cyber Resiliency, business partners, and other stakeholders to align messaging and learning needs.
- Support external vendor relationship management for simulation and response capabilities, including coordination and continuous improvement opportunities.
Requirements
- 2-5 years of experience in cybersecurity awareness, social engineering simulation or related security discipline.
- Experience designing, supporting, or measuring social engineering simulations, user awareness campaigns, behavior change initiatives, and remediation efforts.
- Ability to transform security and user behavior data into meaningful metrics, executive-level reporting, and risk-informed recommendations.
- Experience developing dashboards and reporting using Power BI or similar analytics tools.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze complex data in Excel, identify trends and patterns, develop meaningful insights, and present findings in a clear, actionable manner.
- Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and partner effectively across technical and business teams.