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Riverwoods, IL
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Cybersecurity Analyst

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At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We’re all about people, and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career.

Responsibility of the role is to support the cybersecurity roadmap and contribute to the delivery of secure systems, cyber remediation, cyber applications, technical projects, and regulatory and risk requirements. This includes cybersecurity framework, program optimization, evaluating vulnerabilities, vulnerability remediation, third-party management, metrics reporting, performance analysis, and assessing threat severity and impact on corporate assets, and mitigating operational risk in a high-velocity culture. This Cybersecurity Analyst role requires high-level, critical thinking to perform duties related to projects, compliance, metrics, assurance, vulnerabilities, or threats.

Responsibilities

  • Analyzes vulnerabilities, tunes/tests tools, and investigates security incidents to derive useful information in support of system/network vulnerability mitigation, and eliminate false positives. Evaluates vulnerabilities and assess threat severity and impact on corporate assets, including advising technical teams on vulnerability remediation techniques. Contributes to actionable intelligence in the form of reports, notifications, alerts, and briefings. Performs ethical hacking and penetration testing techniques on the perimeter. Supports mitigation and countermeasure strategies from collected threat intelligence. Recognizes security violations and takes appropriate action to report each incident as required.
  • Identifies security issues and/or vulnerabilities and control impact, compromise, or denial of service by applying countermeasures. Performs ongoing assessment of team and program activities to identify opportunities for improvement. Ensures compliance to audit, regulatory, and legal requirements. Builds and maintains effective relationships with peers and internal business partners. Recommends appropriate and effective controls to address security concerns. Must make decisions quickly to implement countermeasures, address remediation, avoid an outage, and ensure system’s high availability.
  • Delivers metrics and performance reporting to enhance real-time risk decision-making and project prioritization. Analyzes data collected from a variety of cyber-defense tools and data-analytics solutions for the purposes of mitigating threats. Engages in reporting risk remediation assurance and automation/integration initiatives, and collaborates with stakeholders, at all levels, to ensure remediation is validated, risk is mitigated, and findings are fully closed/resolved.
  • Maintains knowledge of security threats and industry trends to provide tactical project guidance. Utilizes Cybersecurity solutions, analyzes events to mitigate risk, and achieve remediation. Works on cyber projects and contributes to delivering key milestones.

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:

  • H.S. Diploma or GED

Preferred Qualifications

If we had our say, we’d also look for:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Information Security , Computer Science, Business Administration, Data Analytics, or related field
  • 2+ years of experience in Information Security, Computer Science, Data Analytics, related certifications. or related field
  • PMP, CEH, GIAC

Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, among other things, or as a qualified individual with a disability.

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What are Discover Perks + Benefits

Discover Benefits Overview

Start enjoying great benefits Day 1 — We support you with the same dedication we bring to all of our customers. Our comprehensive benefits package features first-class insurance, financial planning support and excellent perks designed to help you reach your goals and live a rich, healthy life.

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Culture
Volunteer in local community
Discover’s business is built on helping people, and we invest in the community (Blessing Backpacks, Boys & Girls Clubs, Big Brothers/Sisters) to demonstrate our commitment to a brighter future.
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity manifesto
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
You can open a separate Health Care FSA (HCFSA) and contribute up to $2,650 tax-free from your paycheck to reimburse yourself for eligible out-of-pocket expenses.
Disability insurance
Employees receive Short-Term Disability Insurance at no cost.
Dental insurance
Discover offers two dental plan options — Standard and Premier — both are administered by MetLife.
Vision insurance
Discover offers two vision plan options — Standard and Premier through VSP.
Health insurance
Discover offers a variety of medical plans for you and eligible family members, so that you can choose the benefit plan that suits your needs.
Life insurance
As a Discover employee, you receive Basic Life Insurance of one times your HWEE (up to $500,000) at no cost to you.
Pet insurance
Purchase medical coverage at a discounted rate for your beloved family pet. The more pets you insure, the greater the discount.
Wellness programs
Help balance your work and personal life with a wide variety of free and discounted resource and referral services including family and relationship counseling and financial guidance.
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
You may elect to contribute 1% to 30% of your eligible base salary, commissions and bonus on a pre-tax basis, up to IRS limits every year.
401(K) matching
Discover matches up to 6% of the pre-tax contributions you make to the 401(k) Plan.
Employee stock purchase plan
The ESPP provides eligible employees with an opportunity to purchase shares of Discover common stock through payroll deductions at a 5% discount.
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Childcare benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Adoption Assistance
Discover helps eligible employees and their families with the costs of adoption by reimbursing certain expenses.
Company sponsored family events
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Generous PTO
Discover has a Paid Time Off of 4 to 5 Weeks of paid time per year.
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Discover provides 7 paid holidays.
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
When you enroll in the Commuter Benefits Program at WageWorks, you’ll save on taxes on mass-transit passes, parking and other eligible expenses.
Company-sponsored outings
Onsite office parking
Recreational clubs
Relocation assistance
Fitness stipend
Onsite gym
Discover has fitness centers and Weight Watchers® programs at all five major locations.
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Tuition reimbursement
Discover provides tuition reimbursement and a full-ride bachelor's degree program for select online degree programs.
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education stipend
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks

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