Listing Description

WPP is the transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities.

Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 100,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. We create transformative ideas and outcomes for its clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology. WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world's biggest companies and organisations – from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC, and the UN. Our clients include 61 of the FTSE 100, 325 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 62 of the NASDAQ 100.

WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide. We are quoted on the London Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. Key performance indicators for WPP (2020) include Billings of £46.9bn and Revenue of £12bn.

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Why we're hiring:

At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT’s mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP’s petabytes of data.

As we progress on this journey, we need to evolve how we protect our customers, employees, and shareholders for today and the future. You will play a critical role in developing and implementing a world class information security programme to protect WPP Group from cyber threats. This is an essential role, supporting WPP IT to deliver its purpose to design, build, run and transform all current and future IT services which underpin the One WPP strategy.

The Malware Analyst is responsible for providing in-depth analysis and intelligence on the malicious software, tools and methods used in a cyber-attack.

The role will look to analyse and investigate malicious and/or suspicious code with a view to protecting the estate by predicting the intended behaviour of the code and helping to develop methods of identification.

The role holder will conduct detailed forensic analysis on platforms and logs as part of the incident response teams activities.

What you'll be doing:

• Build and maintain a safe analysis environment


• Identify, investigate and analyse various forms of malware and their methods of delivery.


• Analysis of attacks across the estate to understand deployment, success criteria and applicable defences to protect against future or follow-up attacks.


• Ability to transpose findings into recommendations, working with the wider Cyber Security team to refine or implement new security controls where needed.


• Providing support to the Security Incident Response team on mitigation and recovery activities.


• Provide digital forensic examination services

What you'll need:

Qualification Requirements (Desirable)

• Certifications in security (i.e. GIAC GREM, DFE, CISSP, CEPT) desirable but not essential


• Degree or equivalent desirable but not essential


• Comprehensive knowledge about vulnerability and security policies such as ISO standards

Skills / Experience Requirements

• Strong knowledge of high level, middle level and assembly level programming languages.


• Experience in reverse engineering malicious/suspicious code.


• Strong understanding of programme analysis tools, supporting disassembly, debugging, packing/unpacking, binary/code analysis, etc.


• Strong understanding of malicious software types (i.e. adware, bots, ransomware, worms).


• Experience in malware classification by severity, behaviours, threats and commonalities.


• Experience of log analysis


• Experience of digital forensic analysis


• Strong understanding of offensive and defensive tools and techniques.


• Understanding of networking fundamentals.


• Ability to produce reports, alerts and other supporting documentation for the wider Cyber Security team.


• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.

Who you are:

You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?

WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability. We believe in creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion and strives to recruit a diverse slate of candidates to help us achieve that goal.

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