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Job Summary:
Cathay Bank is committed to fostering a caring culture that supports employee aspirations and success. The Sr. Insider Risk Analyst will support the Insider Risk Program by monitoring insider-risk alerts, conducting multi-source analysis, and coordinating with various departments to mitigate threats to the Bank's reputation and assets.
Responsibilities:
• Lead triage of insider-risk alerts generated by monitoring use cases and tools; validate activity, gather context, and determine appropriate disposition in accordance with approved procedures.
• Respond to DLP alerts, monitor DLP consoles and analyze security events to identify potential data loss incidents.
• Lead in-depth investigations of suspected insider threat incidents, including unauthorized access, data exfiltration, and policy violations.
• Regularly review and fine-tune DLP and UEBA rules/policies to reduce false positives and improve detection accuracy.
• Develop and implement insider threat detection use cases, alert rules, and incident response playbooks.
• Assess potential insider threats by evaluating the risks associated with users, data, and systems.
• Prepare clear case documentation and facilitate timely escalation or referral to investigators, HR, Legal, or other SMEs when thresholds are met; track outcomes and support coordination of mitigation actions.
• Lead interviews with the business units and monitor external intelligence sources for notable insider-risk indicators and emerging tactics; contribute to analysis of trends to inform detection tuning and response playbooks.
• Create and advocate for Team Member training and awareness on cybersecurity risks and best practices; design and track phishing simulation campaigns.
• Support program governance by authoring documentation (e.g., procedures, roles and responsibilities, and control evidence) and by adhering to the established control environment.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the Bank and, as applicable, with external partners to stay abreast of industry trends and best practices in insider-risk monitoring, investigations, and privacy-aligned analytics.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Undergraduate degree in Intelligence Studies, Forensic Science, Security Studies, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Analysis or a related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5+ years of work experience supporting insider threat/insider risk, investigations, security operations, fraud, or risk analysis.
• Demonstrates the ability to work effectively with a diverse range of stakeholders across various levels of the organization.
• Applies foundational elicitation skills, including building rapport, active listening, and asking thoughtful, open-ended questions to gather information.
• Utilizes strong critical thinking skills to analyze information, solve problems, and make informed decisions.
• Exhibits creativity in approaching challenges and developing innovative solutions.
• Maintains a high level of confidentiality and exercises sound judgment and discretion when handling sensitive information.
• Ability to build successful and sustainable relationships across all lines of business and with technical partners to develop solutions.
• Ability to manage multiple cases and priorities simultaneously, meet deadlines, and maintain thorough, well-organized documentation.
• Demonstrates analytical rigor and creativity to solve complex problems, identify meaningful patterns in data, and deliver practical, risk-based recommendations.
• Knowledge of DLP — network, endpoint, cloud; as one data source in the ecosystem.
• Knowledge of OSINT concepts — collection, managed attribution, legal boundaries.
• Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK — TTPs mapped to insider threat scenarios.
• Awareness of privacy law constraints on monitoring (CCPA, state laws).
• Knowledge of insider threat laws and regulations.
• Knowledge of networking (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, HTTP/S).
• Knowledge of risk management processes and frameworks.
• Knowledge of OS fundamentals — user activity logs, file systems, process behavior.
• Knowledge of IP addressing, DNS resolution, basic network flow logs.
• Knowledge of CMU threat categories: IP theft, sabotage, fraud, espionage, unintentional.
• Knowledge of information collection tools and techniques.
Preferred:
• Behavioral Science/ Behavioral Analysis/Behavioral Threat Assessment experience or training
• Preferred experience in or knowledge of financial industry.
• Preferred experience with User Activity Monitoring (UAM), User Behavior Analytics (UBA) principles and tools, rules and policy engines, other insider threat technical solutions and data analytics platforms.
• Preferred experience supporting an insider threat/risk program or investigative team by assessing complex events, building narratives from multiple data sources, and recommending mitigation actions in coordination with cross-disciplinary partners.
• Preferred experience conducting risk assessments and in-depth multi-source research on threat actors, tactics, techniques, and emerging trends to inform risk scenarios, evaluate control environment and develop mitigation strategies.
• Achievement of or willingness to pursue Insider Threat (e.g., CERT Insider Threat Program Manager, CCITP, GCITP, etc.), Counterintelligence, analytical and/or security (e.g., Security+, Network+, CEH) tradecraft training and certifications
Company:
Cathay Bank is a financial services company originally founded to support Los Angeles’ growing Chinese American community. It is a sub-organization of Cathay General Bancorp. Founded in 1962, the company is headquartered in El Monte, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.