Senior Industry CyberSecurity Analyst
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Occupation TypeCyber security professionals
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
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£48,500
(£24.87 per hour)
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Description
Department: Technology
Team: Security & Fraud
Location: London
Position Type: Short-term contract initially until the end of the year (inside IR35)
What The Hiring Manager Says
“Cyber-attacks continue to increase in sophistication and volume against mobile networks. Set against a background of the roll out of 5G and evolution from legacy technology to cloud native, the need for strong international coordinated security has never been stronger. GSMA plays a central role in the mobile industry both as a thought leader and also as a focal point for GSMA industry member to develop industry security standards. This role will be key in ensuring GSMA is able anticipate and manage changes in the mobile cyber security landscape for GSMA members”.
- Alex Leadbeater, GSMA Technical Security Director
About The Team
The GSMA Industry Security team is continually enhancing the support offered to its membership as the threats targeting the mobile ecosystem emerge. Our vision is to provide value for our membership in three main areas:
Reporting to GSMA’s Technical Security Director within the Security and Fraud team, the Industry CyberSecurity Analyst will be responsible for identifying how both new and evolving mobile technologies will affect GSMA members from a Cyber Security perspective.
They will have a global view of how mobile security and fraud matters are developing and with this knowledge play a key role in shaping industry technical approach to mobile technology evolution.
The role will support the creation of whitepapers, reports, and blogs, both as GSMA and in collaboration with GSMA members through GSMA working groups. This will include significant contribution to GSMA’s annual security landscape report.
Responsibilities
Team: Security & Fraud
Location: London
Position Type: Short-term contract initially until the end of the year (inside IR35)
What The Hiring Manager Says
“Cyber-attacks continue to increase in sophistication and volume against mobile networks. Set against a background of the roll out of 5G and evolution from legacy technology to cloud native, the need for strong international coordinated security has never been stronger. GSMA plays a central role in the mobile industry both as a thought leader and also as a focal point for GSMA industry member to develop industry security standards. This role will be key in ensuring GSMA is able anticipate and manage changes in the mobile cyber security landscape for GSMA members”.
- Alex Leadbeater, GSMA Technical Security Director
About The Team
The GSMA Industry Security team is continually enhancing the support offered to its membership as the threats targeting the mobile ecosystem emerge. Our vision is to provide value for our membership in three main areas:
- Industry collaboration by convening membership to define industry specifications, facilitating intelligence sharing, promoting baseline controls, conducting external collaboration to ensure industry alignment.
- Providing expertise through subject matter experts by supporting solution and service offering development to internal and external stakeholders, as well as promoting industry Fraud and Security awareness.
- Defining the future by looking forward by assessing, analysing and reporting on the industry threat landscape. This is also done through engagement with standards bodies and reviewing new technologies to ensure adequate protection by design
Reporting to GSMA’s Technical Security Director within the Security and Fraud team, the Industry CyberSecurity Analyst will be responsible for identifying how both new and evolving mobile technologies will affect GSMA members from a Cyber Security perspective.
They will have a global view of how mobile security and fraud matters are developing and with this knowledge play a key role in shaping industry technical approach to mobile technology evolution.
The role will support the creation of whitepapers, reports, and blogs, both as GSMA and in collaboration with GSMA members through GSMA working groups. This will include significant contribution to GSMA’s annual security landscape report.
Responsibilities
The successful candidate will have a clear understanding of the industry needs, weakness and areas for improvement across a range of mobile network, services and end user equipment areas. Specific responsibilities will include:
- At a detailed technical level, develop and maintain an expert understanding as to how mobile technology evolution will impact the Mobile Cyber Security landscape.
- Work collaboratively with GSMA Technology team (including security) and GSMA members (directly and through GSMA working groups) to provide technical input into security and fraud deliverables.
- Produce and contribute to GSMA Cyber Security Analyst reports, whitepapers and blogs.
- Build relationships and engage directly with external stakeholders (e.g. GSMA members, regulators, other industry associations).
- Support analyst activities of GSMA Telecoms Information Sharing and Analysis Centre (T-ISAC).
- Develop joint security reach with GSMA Intelligence.
- Undertaking research and analysis into evolving Mobile Cyber Security landscape.
- Contribute to the GSMA security area (FASG) member working groups as a technical expert and facilitator.
- Support GSMA events including MWC Barcelona SEC CON / SEC SUM and other regional events.
- Support GSMA security social media outreach.
- You will have previous experience within a Mobile Network Operator or Mobile Operator equipment vendor or industry analyst provider, in a systems design and operations roles.
- You will have an expert in depth knowledge of Mobile Network technology and how evolution to Cloud, virtualisation, AI, Network APIs, NPNs and Zero Trust will impact mobile networks and services.
- You will have background (ideally technical) in mobile networks and security.
- You will have an in depth understanding of current Mobile Network, Services and End user equipment (e.g. Smartphones and IOT) weakness and be passionate about working with the industry to deliver improvements.
Analysis - using structured, data-driven analysis to break down complex problems and generate clear, actionable insights.
Communication - excellent communication, presentation and facilitation skills.
Influence – Ability to work collaboratively to change stakeholder, industry and regulatory perspectives for wider strategic CyberSecurity eco-system benefit.
Commercial Awareness - you have an understanding of commercial business and regulatory models that are applicable to mobile networks and services within the Cyber Security domain.
Innovation - you have a sufficient technical background in order to speak and produce technical papers on mobile Security and Fraud topics including 5G, 6G, IoT, and AI.
We strive to offer a meaningful and inclusive application experience for all candidates. Should you require any accommodations or adjustments due to a disability or for any other reason during the hiring process, please contact talent@gsma.com with your request.
Contract type
Short term Contractor
Worker type
Contingent Worker
What We Offer
Working at the GSMA offers you unparalleled access to the mobile industry. We offer a chance to truly shape the direction of mobile, whatever your role. By joining the GSMA, you will be exposed to a fast-paced rapidly evolving environment, working on global solutions, genuinely fascinating and industry-changing projects and a stimulating and dynamic environment designed to enable you to flourish.
In addition to architect-designed offices and competitive compensation, our benefits include fantastic learning & development opportunities, generous holiday allowances, four additional days off for professional development and many others.
To learn more about the GSMA, visit our career site, our LinkedIn page and our Twitter page.
Being You at the GSMA
We care deeply about diversity, equity and inclusivity and aspire to be the best at it. Your well-being and work/life balance is important, so flexi-time and remote working is available to all staff. We're keen to ensure everyone is equal, represented and connected so we particularly encourage applications from all demographics. The sucess of the GSMA year on year will continue to be contributed by people from all walks of life.
GSMA Values
Our values not only drive our culture – they shape how we work and interact inside and outside our global organisation.
Passionately driven
We approach everything we do with unparalleled capability, tenacity and commitment, knowing that the challenging scale, pace and complexity of our work is what leads to its world-changing impact.
Insightful leaders
We continually develop and engage our expertise, insight and creativity so that we’re always ready to respond to the changing landscape with authority, agility and nuance.
Stronger together
Worker type
Contingent Worker
What We Offer
Working at the GSMA offers you unparalleled access to the mobile industry. We offer a chance to truly shape the direction of mobile, whatever your role. By joining the GSMA, you will be exposed to a fast-paced rapidly evolving environment, working on global solutions, genuinely fascinating and industry-changing projects and a stimulating and dynamic environment designed to enable you to flourish.
In addition to architect-designed offices and competitive compensation, our benefits include fantastic learning & development opportunities, generous holiday allowances, four additional days off for professional development and many others.
To learn more about the GSMA, visit our career site, our LinkedIn page and our Twitter page.
Being You at the GSMA
We care deeply about diversity, equity and inclusivity and aspire to be the best at it. Your well-being and work/life balance is important, so flexi-time and remote working is available to all staff. We're keen to ensure everyone is equal, represented and connected so we particularly encourage applications from all demographics. The sucess of the GSMA year on year will continue to be contributed by people from all walks of life.
GSMA Values
Our values not only drive our culture – they shape how we work and interact inside and outside our global organisation.
Passionately driven
We approach everything we do with unparalleled capability, tenacity and commitment, knowing that the challenging scale, pace and complexity of our work is what leads to its world-changing impact.
Insightful leaders
We continually develop and engage our expertise, insight and creativity so that we’re always ready to respond to the changing landscape with authority, agility and nuance.
Stronger together
We lean on each other so the industry can lean on us, embracing our diversity by actively seeking out perspectives and skill sets beyond our own, fuelling each other’s successes and constantly asking how we can help.
Underpinning our values is our collective mindset to show up purposefully as good human beings every day, in every situation. When we’re at our best – we are collaborative, considerate and compassionate to others, and we create a safe space for one another to thrive, assuming positive intent in our colleagues. And if we aren’t at our best and the pressure is on – we feel free to be ourselves but still remain curious, lean into the tough stuff and we are always respectful to others and accountable for the part we play.
Underpinning our values is our collective mindset to show up purposefully as good human beings every day, in every situation. When we’re at our best – we are collaborative, considerate and compassionate to others, and we create a safe space for one another to thrive, assuming positive intent in our colleagues. And if we aren’t at our best and the pressure is on – we feel free to be ourselves but still remain curious, lean into the tough stuff and we are always respectful to others and accountable for the part we play.