Graduate Data Scientist – Cyber Analytics

at  Egress Software Technologies

If you’re reading this, we are excited for you. You’ve landed on the job description for a company that will obsess over your well-being with unrivalled work-life balance, your career development providing transparent career paths and learning support for every single person, and knows that you are unique and will celebrate that. If you are passionate about what you do and want a career in one of the most exciting yet stable industries, read on…
Egress Software Technologies are a leading cyber security company providing global solutions to protect against human-activated risk. By aggregating data to derive intelligence, Egress is the only company able to predict future threats and prevent attacks or breaches – before they happen.
Egress is proud to support thousands of Enterprise customers across a range of sectors including Financial Services, Legal, Healthcare, and Government organizations. By protecting millions of employees around the world from advanced threats, businesses can safely achieve their mission without unnecessary risk.
At the forefront of the IT Cyber Security industry, Egress can provide an unrivalled career path in Cyber Security.

DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION

Here at Egress we are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. Our workforce has consistently sat above the national average for both BAME and female representation, but we recognize that we can always do more. Every job description is subject to scrutiny through a gender bias decoder ensuring our roles are as inclusive and attractive as possible. Our culture is one that aims to nurture a welcoming and safe working environment for everyone with initiatives such as our employee-led Culture Club, dedicated mental health first aider network and regular awareness seminars all contributing to a great place to work whoever you are.

The role covers a broad range of exciting tasks and deliverables and is perfect for someone early in their career or looking for a career change.
The role is mainly office-based, however, once trained flexible working is available.

Day-to-day activities include:

• Reviewing, understanding and reverse engineering phishing attacks and technologies.
• Understanding and implementing broader attack vectors.
• Developing detection algorithms (python, c#) and extracting identifying features of phishing emails.
• Understanding human behaviour and communications, and how they can be exploited by attackers
• Using machine learning to identify broader phishing trends and how to protect against them.
• Creative problem solving

The Cyber analytics team stays up to date with current and historic attack vectors, as well as theorizing about, and developing new and novel attacks (both in email and broader vectors).
Cyber analytics team members are also responsible for developing new detection capabilities as well as improving existing algorithms.
The team also drive the business in their understanding of the fast-moving cyber landscape and how we can best protect our customers from sophisticated attacks and crime as a service.
We are a highly flexible team with a key focus on defeating attackers, understanding the fast-moving landscape and protecting users.