Senior Industry CyberSecurity Analyst

Department: Technology

Team: Security & Fraud

Location: London

Position Type: Short-term contract initially until the end of the year (inside IR35)

What the hiring manager says

“Cyber-attacks continue to increase in sophistication and volume against mobile networks. Set against a background of the roll out of 5G and evolution from legacy technology to cloud native, the need for strong international coordinated security has never been stronger. GSMA plays a central role in the mobile industry both as a thought leader and also as a focal point for GSMA industry member to develop industry security standards. This role will be key in ensuring GSMA is able to anticipate and manage changes in the mobile cyber security landscape for GSMA members.” - Alex Leadbeater, GSMA Technical Security Director

About the Team

The GSMA Industry Security team is continually enhancing the support offered to its membership as the threats targeting the mobile ecosystem emerge. Our vision is to provide value for our membership in three main areas:

• Industry collaboration by convening membership to define industry specifications, facilitating intelligence sharing, promoting baseline controls, conducting external collaboration to ensure industry alignment.
• Providing expertise through subject matter experts by supporting solution and service offering development to internal and external stakeholders, as well as promoting industry Fraud and Security awareness.
• Defining the future by looking forward by assessing, analysing and reporting on the industry threat landscape. This is also done through engagement with standards bodies and reviewing new technologies to ensure adequate protection by design.

About the role

Reporting to GSMA’s Technical Security Director within the Security and Fraud team, the Industry CyberSecurity Analyst will be responsible for identifying how both new and evolving mobile technologies will affect GSMA members from a Cyber Security perspective. They will have a global view of how mobile security and fraud matters are developing and with this knowledge play a key role in shaping industry technical approach to mobile technology evolution. The role will support the creation of whitepapers, reports, and blogs, both as GSMA and in collaboration with GSMA members through GSMA working groups. This will include significant contribution to GSMA’s annual security landscape report.

The successful candidate will have a clear understanding of the industry needs, weakness and areas for improvement across a range of mobile network, services and end user equipment areas. Specific responsibilities will include:

• At a detailed technical level, develop and maintain an expert understanding as to how mobile technology evolution will impact the Mobile Cyber Security landscape.
• Work collaboratively with GSMA Technology team (including security) and GSMA members (directly and through GSMA working groups) to provide technical input into security and fraud deliverables.
• Produce and contribute to GSMA Cyber Security Analyst reports, whitepapers and blogs.
• Build relationships and engage directly with external stakeholders (e.g. GSMA members, regulators, other industry associations).
• Support analyst activities of GSMA Telecoms Information Sharing and Analysis Centre (T-ISAC).
• Develop joint security reach with GSMA Intelligence.
• Undertaking research and analysis into evolving Mobile Cyber Security landscape.
• Contribute to the GSMA security area (FASG) member working groups as a technical expert and facilitator.
• Support GSMA events including MWC Barcelona SEC CON / SEC SUM and other regional events.
• Support GSMA security social media outreach.

About You

You will have previous experience within a Mobile Network Operator or Mobile Operator equipment vendor or industry analyst provider, in a systems design and operations roles. You will have an expert in depth knowledge of Mobile Network technology and how evolution to Cloud, virtualisation, AI, Network APIs, NPNs and Zero Trust will impact mobile networks and services. You will have background (ideally technical) in mobile networks and security. You will have an in depth understanding of current Mobile Network, Services and End user equipment (e.g. Smartphones and IOT) weakness and be passionate about working with the industry to deliver improvements. You will have effective research and organisation skills with key attention to detail and delivery of documentation. You will have experience of industry engagement (ideally up to C suite level). You will be a clear communicator, capable of communicating complex technical matters in an understandable style to non-experts. You will effectively work with others to make up for gaps in your experience or knowledge. You will have a passion for consensus building across a wider range of industry and regulatory stakeholders. You will have a strong sense of business ethics and principles. You will display cultural understanding and sensitivity, recognising that GSMA is a global organisation with members from many countries and cultures. You will be willing undertake global travel as required, especially during initial relationship building stage of this role.

About your skills

• Analysis - using structured, data-driven analysis to break down complex problems and generate clear, actionable insights.
• Communication - excellent communication, presentation and facilitation skills.
• Influence – Ability to work collaboratively to change stakeholder, industry and regulatory perspectives for wider strategic CyberSecurity eco-system benefit.
• Commercial Awareness - you have an understanding of commercial business and regulatory models that are applicable to mobile networks and services within the Cyber Security domain.
• Innovation - you have a sufficient technical background in order to speak and produce technical papers on mobile Security and Fraud topics including 5G, 6G, IoT, and AI.

We strive to offer a meaningful and inclusive application experience for all candidates. Should you require any accommodations or adjustments due to a disability or for any other reason during the hiring process, please contact talent@gsma.com with your request.

Contract type Short term Contractor

Worker type Contingent Worker

What We Offer

Working at the GSMA offers you unparalleled access to the mobile industry. We offer a chance to truly shape the direction of mobile, whatever your role. By joining the GSMA, you will be exposed to a fast-paced rapidly evolving environment, working on global solutions, genuinely fascinating and industry-changing projects and a stimulating and dynamic environment designed to enable you to flourish. In addition to architect-designed offices and competitive compensation, our benefits include fantastic learning & development opportunities, generous holiday allowances, four additional days off for professional development and many others.

Being You at the GSMA

We care deeply about diversity, equity and inclusivity and aspire to be the best at it. Your well-being and work/life balance is important, so flexi-time and remote working is available to all staff. We’re keen to ensure everyone is equal, represented and connected so we particularly encourage applications from all demographics. The success of the GSMA year on year will continue to be contributed by people from all walks of life.

GSMA Values

Our values not only drive our culture – they shape how we work and interact inside and outside our global organisation.

• Passionately driven - We approach everything we do with unparalleled capability, tenacity and commitment, knowing that the challenging scale, pace and complexity of our work is what leads to its world-changing impact.
• Insightful leaders