Cybersecurity Analyst

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging - where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world - helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

**Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.**

**Job Description**:
**Team Summary**

Visa Cybersecurity Incident Response team is at the forefront of cybersecurity defense. The team monitors for Cybersecurity threats to Visa’s business and take mitigation action to prevent impact to services or data. The team is part of larger Cyber Defense organization that protects the company against internal and external cyber threats.

**What a Cybersecurity Analyst does at Visa**:
Cybersecurity Analyst will be part of a team that defends one of the largest electronic payments network from Cyber threats. The team runs 24x7 global monitoring function and work closely with other key functions such as Cyber Engineering and Cyber Threat Intelligence.

**Why this is important to Visa**
- Monitor Information Security alerts using Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) to triage, mitigate, and escalate issues as needed while capturing essential details and artifacts.
- Utilize sensor data and correlated logs containing Windows events, AV, IDS, Web Proxy, and similar sensor data to establish context and rule out false positives.
- Mitigate and contain identified threats using approved incident response methodologies. Initiate escalation procedures and incident response processes as defined in operational plan.
- Perform analysis of security alerts to evaluate risk, determine containment action and identify required preventative measures.
- Ensure proper documentation of security incidents including attack details.
- Interact and aid other investigative teams within Visa on time sensitive and critical investigations.
- Provide feedback to peer teams to enhance security sensor and improve detection capabilities.
- Contribute to identifying process improvement opportunities to enhance security incident response process.
- Respond to incoming reports of potential security incidents from internal employees and external partners.
- This position is staffed in shifts supporting a 24x7x365 global security operations center. Analysts work a series of 12-hour shifts (followed by days off) or 8-hour shifts. Staff assigned to the operations center are considered critical and may need to cover holidays and weekends, if scheduled.

**Projects you will be a part of**:
This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

**Qualifications**:
What you will need:
To be successful in this role you will need
- 3 - 5+ years of related experience in Cyber Defense or computer network defense role.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or related technical discipline or equivalent professional experience related Cybersecurity, Incident Response, or Information Security.
- Knowledge of malware families and network attack vectors.
- Solid understanding of TCP/IP and internetworking technology including packet analysis, routing and network security defenses.
- Working knowledge of common security tools such as SIEM, AV, WAF, IDS, Netflow, Packet Analyzer and Endpoint Detection & Response tools.
- Excellent problem solving skills, with tenacity and resilience to resolve issues.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Working knowledge of cloud technologies and related security best practices

What will also help:

- Relevant security-related certifications a plus : CISSP, GCIH, GCIA, GCED, GCFA, CySA+.

Additional Information

Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy. As a condition of employment, all employees based in Singapore are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law.