Graduate Data Scientist - Cyber Analytics (Position located in Cheltenham, United Kingdom)

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The Cybersecurity Threat Analyst works in the KnowBe4 Threat Research Lab, and is responsible for creating solutions and models to detect threats in KnowBe4’s target markets and products.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzes threat data and implements technical solutions
• Innovate and create extensions to detection paradigms in end to end fashion
• 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

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Physics or a related quantitative field
• Strong working knowledge of SQL for data extraction and manipulation
• Demonstrated ability to write clean, efficient code. Proficiency in Python or C#
• Familiarity with standard ML algorithms (e.g., linear/logistic regression, decision trees, random forests) and libraries like Scikit-Learn or TensorFlow/PyTorch
• Demonstrable experience in being able to quickly learn and adapt to new areas of technology
• Ability to think outside the box and/or think maliciously to deliver creative solutions.