Intro
As a Cyber Security (Operational) Researcher you occupy a crucial role in shaping our product! Squalify quantifies cyber risk and your role will be to ensure that our quantification model is continually improved, by researching new threats and reported incidents, and recommending changes to the quantification model to incorporate these.
Between analysing existing data, researching, and thinking in creative ways of how cyber attacks can have financial impact, you will enhance the confidence of our risk model. By doing this, you will be participating in building an outstanding product for our partners and clients.
Important – this role is not looking for a vulnerability researcher/reverse engineer/penetration tester or similar. Rather this role is focused on more operational research (OR) topics.
You will get to have the best of both worlds by working in an exciting fast-paced startup but having the opportunity to work closely with one of the best global cyber risk modelling communities which is within the Munich Re Group. Our top-down cyber risk quantification approach is novel in the global market – you will support in expanding our methodology and making our model more accurate.
Your mission
* Research and Quantify cyber incidents. Identify and analyse real cyber incidents, to discover the financial impact and cost drivers, and ensure our cyber-incident costs database is kept updated models.
* Maintain and help develop the quantification model and recommend model for new use cases, e.g. benchmarking or information security cost drivers
* Support cyber strategy. Contribute by analysing and evaluating other cyber risk quantification models in the market
* Expand cyber risk knowledge. Research the totality of global cyber risk cost within the changing threat landscape
* Create content. Develop cyber risk and quantification content to be used for the platform development and for sales/marketing
Your Profile
* University degree, preferably a master’s degree with focus on risk management, mathematics or related fields. Tech-orientated courses and specialisations are of advantage.
* Professional work experience (2-3 years), ideally in analysing and working with financial data to build forecasting models. Cyber risk experience is a plus.
* Ability to implement mathematical solutions into a software code.
* You bring along organisational and management skills as well as have high attention to detail.
* Strong written and oral communication skills on a professional business level are needed to write documentations, reports, and communicate with stakeholders.
* You have an entrepreneurial and creative mindset and enjoy taking risks.
* Able to proactively solve problems, make decisions and show initiative. Also, you are flexible and enjoy working in a startup-like environment. We are a young company – showing responsibility and own-initiative is crucial and will allow you to self-develop.
* You have excellent written and spoken English communication abilities.
Why Squalify?
* Be at the forefront of the cyber risk quantification (r)evolution
* Have real impact and help shape the future of cybersecurity
* Endless opportunities for growth and development and a budget of 2,500 euros per year for your training needs
* Participate in our incentive plan, rewarding your hard work and dedication
* Ability to work remotely, with the autonomy to drive your own success
* Enjoy a flat hierarchy and open communication policy
* Be a part of an international, dynamic, innovative team, working on the cutting-edge
About us
Squalify is a novel cyber risk management service to support the management of cyber risks. With Squalify, cyber risks of enterprises are analyzed and quantified with qualitative and quantitative metrics to support strategic decisions in cyber risk management. Our mission is to become the go-to provider for any data-related requests in the cybersecurity space and represent the industry standard for cyber risk quantification.
Squalify is an innovation venture (100% backed by MunichRe) which means you get the best of both worlds – the speed and space to innovate of a startup and the financial power from the MR group. In our team, you will have both the challenge and the opportunity to utilize your greatest strengths, and to rely on others to do the same. We believe this is our greatest asset.