Cybersecurity Offense Analyst

This is an opportunity to join Ascot Group - one of the world’s preeminent specialty risk underwriting organizations.

This is an opportunity to join Ascot Group - one of the world’s preeminent specialty risk underwriting organizations.
Designed as a modern‑era company operating through an ecosystem of interconnected global operating platforms, we’re bound by a common mission and purpose:
One Ascot. Our greatest strength is a talented team who flourishes in a collaborative, inclusive, and entrepreneurial culture, steeped in underwriting excellence, integrity, and a passion to find a better way, The Ascot Way.
The Ascot Way guides our people and our organization. Our underwriting platforms collaborate to find creative ways to deploy our capital in a true cross-product and cross-platform approach. These platforms work as one, deploying our capital creatively through our Client Centric, Risk Centric, and Technology Centric strategies.
Built to be resilient, Ascot maximizes client financial security while delivering bespoke products and world class service — both pre‑ and post‑claims. Ascot exists to solve our clients’ brightest tomorrow, through agility, collaboration, resilience, and discipline.
Ascot is embedding artificial intelligence (AI) and automation across the organisation to enhance decision‑making, efficiency, and quality of outcomes. In this role, you will be expected to work confidently alongside AI‑enabled tools, apply sound judgment when interpreting insights, and adapt as technology continues to evolve. We value curiosity, critical thinking, and a willingness to embrace change as part of how we work.

As part of Ascot’s Cybersecurity team, the Cyber Offense Analyst has a key role in helping deliver its cybersecurity strategic objectives. This individual will be instrumental in helping the program prepare and respond against the ever‑changing threat actor’s tactics, techniques and procedures. This is a hands‑on role where the successful candidate will be required to provide effective outcomes in determining weaknesses and threats specific to Ascot while also supporting the day‑to‑day processes and procedures.

The job includes routine metrics and outcome measurements of the effectiveness of the cyber offence deliverables. This role will be in the office with a hybrid work schedule.

• Perform cyber offense functions including vulnerability scanning, coordination of penetration testing activities, overseeing remediation of vulnerabilities, continuous monitoring, application security testing, and process rollout and management. The scope of work is global covering people, process and technology across Ascot Group.
• Assist in delivering a comprehensive offensive security strategy including identifying vulnerabilities, weaknesses and exposures in the organization’s environment, systems and applications.
• Assist in implementing best in class solutions and tooling that will help achieve the cyber offense strategic objectives.
• Manage vulnerability detection, coordinate patch management activities, and manage the application security program by supporting relevant processes and continuous monitoring.
• Support penetration testing, purple and red team exercises with external and internal reviews of the environment by running, managing, and supporting remediation of those assessments.
• Coordinate penetration testing (ethical hacking) activities and/or perform them to pinpoint vulnerabilities and consult on action plans for remediation that considers industry benchmark SLAs, asset criticality and severity rating of the vulnerabilities.
• Integrate application security best practices into the development processes to facilitate a secure system…