Sr Assoc, Cyber Sec AI Threat Defense

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

The AI Threat Defense Analyst, Senior Associate is responsible for:

Key responsibilities:

• Continuously research new and emerging vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, or attack patterns that relate to AI.
• Assess vulnerabilities/threats based on severity, exploitability, and business impact.
• Conduct proactive exploitation assessments, PoC to validate whether known vulnerabilities in our environment are exploitable before adversaries confirm it for us and pitch gap analysis
• Build and maintain AI-specific threat profile - mapping TTPs and known exploitation timelines.
• Partner with Purple team for validation of emerging attack techniques/vulnerabilities through testing, proof-of-concept development, where possible.
• Work with threat hunting to proactive hunt against our own environment, based on Early identification of exploitation signs and exposure windows shortens our mean time to respond and reduces potential blast radius.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of cybersecurity experience with demonstrated leadership in threat management, incident response, or security operations.
• Strong understanding of modern adversary TTPs, including AI-enabled threats, automation abuse, and emerging attack techniques.
• Some development experience in Java, C++, C#, Powershell or Python.

Salary Range:

$88,900 - 151,100 USD

Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension), health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability), paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com.

We hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.