Sr Assoc, Cyber Sec AI Threat Defense

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

• 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 proactively hunt against our own environment, based on early identification of exploitation signs and exposure windows that shorten our mean time to respond and reduce potential blast radius.

• 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.

$88, 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.

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