Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst - Life Sciences

Location: UK/ remote

Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0% to 25% depending on business need and client requirements.

About the Role

Join Accenture Security's Cyber Intelligence (CI) team and help organisations across the Life Sciences sector understand, anticipate, and respond to emerging cyber threats.

As a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst - Life Sciences, you'll research and analyse cyber threats impacting pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, healthcare insurance, and healthcare provider organisations. You'll transform complex intelligence into actionable insights, supporting both technical teams and executive decision-makers.

Key Responsibilities

• Research and analyse cyber threats impacting Life Sciences organisations, including Pharma, Biotech, Medical Devices, Healthcare Insurance, and Healthcare Providers.

• Monitor threat actors, cybercriminal groups, and emerging campaigns targeting the sector.

• Track adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and assess their potential impact.

• Produce threat intelligence reports, assessments, and executive briefings.

• Deliver actionable intelligence and strategic insights to clients and stakeholders.

• Present findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Support client engagements and business development activities.

• Collaborate with analysts and industry specialists across the Cyber Intelligence team.

Essential Criteria

• 3+ years' experience in Cyber Security, Intelligence Analysis, Threat Intelligence, or a related field.
• 2+ years' experience within Pharma, Biotech, Medical Devices, Healthcare Insurance, Healthcare Providers, or a related Life Sciences environment.
• Experience researching and analysing cyber threats, threat actors, and cybercrime campaigns.
• Experience producing intelligence reports, threat assessments, or executive briefings.
• Understanding of intelligence methodologies, source evaluation, and analytical techniques.
• Knowledge of Life Sciences regulatory and cybersecurity frameworks such as HIPAA, FDA Cybersecurity Guidance, and NIST CSF.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Desirable Criteria

• Previous experience within a Life Sciences or healthcare organisation.
• Experience with threat intelligence platforms such as Recorded Future, Mandiant Advantage, MISP, or OpenCTI.
• Knowledge of the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Experience conducting OSINT collection and analysis.
• Client-facing consulting or advisory experience.
• Experience analysing threats relating to healthcare data, intellectual property, or pharmaceutical supply chains.

• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISA, CEH, GCTI, or GREM.

Accenture is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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