Lead Cybersecurity Specialist - India
Target · Posted Nov 4
General merchandise, apparel, grocery, and home goods retail services
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About the role
Target’s security team handles security-related communications received through the organisation’s generic security mailbox. The work covers phishing, suspicious email, attachment, and link investigations, threat validation, incident escalation, and coordination with Cyber Defence and Incident Response teams. This role performs advanced investigations, drives process improvements, mentors analysts, and serves as a primary escalation point for complex mailbox-related security incidents.
What you will do
- Continuously monitor Target’s primary security mailbox and take necessary actions on the incoming emails according to the severity.
- Investigate and handle the initial escalations that have been raised from the security mailbox incidents and issues.
- Act as a primary coordinator between various stake holders and the Triage to handle the incidents and issues that have been called out.
- Review incoming submissions and alerts.
- Review the incoming alerts and submissions and allocate / take action accordingly.
- For any periodic security reports, channelize them or guide them in the right direction.
- Prioritise requests based on risk and severity from the generic security mailbox.
- Ensure adherence to response SLA’s that could vary according to the severity of the email.
- The role would involve initial screening, categorization, routing, and deeper investigation of the emails in the security mailbox.
- Analyse phishing submissions that have been performed.
- Investigate suspicious email activity.
- Perform a root cause analysis for the serious issues that have been triggered through the mailbox.
- Support and coordinate with the stakeholder teams to contain the threats.
- Review suspicious links and domains that are part of the emails and take appropriate action.
- Assess suspicious attachments and take action or inform the right security teams to take action.
- Validate reported security concerns by involving the teams within security and initiate an action on the concerns.
- Identify indicators of compromise (IOCs) that may affect Target.
- Ensure accurate documentation of serious cases and drive it for closure.
- Respond to security-related inquiries.
- Educate users on security best practices.
- Provide clear guidance to reporters.
- Maintain professional communication standards.
- Escalate incidents according to severity.
- Coordinate with Cyber Defence teams.
- Engage Incident Response teams when required.
- Ensure critical incidents receive immediate attention.
- Contribute to knowledge articles.
- Identify recurring attack patterns.
- Recommend process improvements.
- Participate in team training activities.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Experience in MS Office 365/ Security + / Certified SOC Analyst
- Email security fundamentals, basic knowledge of fundamentals of security associated threats through emails.
- Phishing techniques used against organization and knowledge how to handle it and take action on those phishing attempts.
- Malware fundamentals and Social engineering attacks.
- Looking for someone with analytical thinking and good communication skills with ownership and accountability.
Preferred qualifications
- 3-4 years of cybersecurity experience
- Experience in SOC or security operations or security mailbox management for a large organization.
- Experience handling phishing and security investigations is preferred
- Worked heavily towards metrics/SOP/KPI’s in a large team and focussing on results.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Target
Target Corporation operates an extensive chain of general merchandise and discount retail department stores across the United States. The company provides a broad assortment of owned and national brand products, including apparel, electronics, beauty items, groceries, and home goods. Through its physical stores and digital platforms, Target focuses on delivering style, design, and value to help consumers discover the joy of everyday life.
- Industry
- Retail
- Company size
- 415000+ employees
- Founded
- 1902
- Location
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Executive Chair of the Board
Jim Lee
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Prat Vemana
Executive Vice President and Chief Information and Product Officer
Mark Weinstein
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing and Guest Experience Officer
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