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Incident Management_Insider Threat _Associate_Cybersecurity Operations

Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley

Operations
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Sep 18, 2025

Profile Description

We’re seeking someone to join our team of information security experts as Associate Incident Management -Insider Threat who will be responsible for protecting Firm, client, and employee sensitive/confidential data. The Incident Response team is responsible for managing the detection and reporting of information security and insider threat incidents, supporting all Firm Business Units. The team coordinates with the Business Units, Legal, Corporate Security and other stakeholders to gather incident details, assess risk and assist with remediation, ensuring compliance to regulatory and Firm standards. The selected candidate will be located in Bangalore, working with a global team of Information Security professionals. This is a semi-technical role, involving insider threat incident handling only. It is unrelated to the CIRT/CERT or Security Operation Center (SOC) function, as to what is generally referred to in the market.

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The Cybersecurity organization's mission is to create an agile, adaptable organization with the skills and expertise needed to defend against increasingly sophisticated adversaries. This will be achieved by maintaining sound capabilities to identify and protect our assets, proactively assessing threats and vulnerabilities and detecting events, ensuring resiliency through our ability to respond to and recover from incidents and building awareness and increase vigilance while continually developing our cyber workforce.

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The Cybersecurity organization's mission is to create an agile, adaptable organization with the skills and expertise needed to defend against increasingly sophisticated adversaries. This will be achieved by maintaining sound capabilities to identify and protect our assets, proactively assessing threats and vulnerabilities and detecting events, ensuring resiliency through our ability to respond to and recover from incidents and building awareness and increase vigilance while continually developing our cyber workforce.

Cyber Security Operations

This is Director position that monitors, detects, and responds to security incidents to ensure the organization's systems and data are protected from actual and potential threats or breaches.

Morgan Stanley is an industry leader in financial services, known for mobilizing capital to help governments, corporations, institutions, and individuals around the world achieve their financial goals.

At Morgan Stanley India, we support the Firm’s global businesses, with critical presence across Institutional Securities, Wealth Management, and Investment management, as well as in the Firm’s infrastructure functions of Technology, Operations, Finance, Risk Management, Legal and Corporate & Enterprise Services. Morgan Stanley has been rooted in India since 1993, with campuses in both Mumbai and Bengaluru. We empower our multi-faceted and talented teams to advance their careers and make a global impact on the business. For those who show passion and grit in their work, there’s ample opportunity to move across the businesses for those who show passion and grit in their work.

Interested in joining a team that’s eager to create, innovate and make an impact on the world? Read on…

What you’ll do in the role:

  • Conduct daily review, triage, and escalation of detected, and user reported Insider Threat events
  • Collect supporting information and relevant artifacts in support of Incident Response activities
  • Coordinate the response to iRespond incidents from start to finish, including but not limited to utilizing defined workflows to assess the severity of an incident, appropriate mitigation activities, communication across the organization, and ensuring proper documentation is produced outlining the details of the incident.
  • Host calls with senior members of the Firm to develop quick response plans to information security incidents
  • Participate in the review of information security incident handling and post-mortem analysis, in order to highlight control gaps across the organization or process gaps within the team
  • Provide general Information Security advisory services to key stakeholders across the Firm as required
    Participate in projects related to operational improvements and tooling
  • Provide on call and out of hours support Qualifications

What you’ll bring to the role:

  • At least 2 years’ relevant experience would generally be expected to find the skills required for this role.
  • Experience in a similar role or working knowledge of Incident Management, Information Security, or Data Privacy
  • Ability to analyse data to look for anomalies or appropriately identify potential risk issues requiring further escalation
  • Very strong verbal and written English communications skills
  • Ability to handle sensitive situations with discretion and maintain confidentiality
  • Ability to handle multiple competing priorities, while maintaining attention to detail
  • Working knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Power BI etc
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Flexible and self-motivator

Desired Skills :

  • Information Security-related Certifications (e.g., CISM, CRISC, CISSP, Security+)
  • Knowledge or experience in supporting Insider Threat mitigation strategies
  • Knowledge in personal data protection or privacy regulations
  • Knowledge of Splunk, incident management tools like Microsoft Dynamics and DLP detection products
  • Familiarity with artificial intelligence concepts and AI-powered productivity tools.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 89 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices​ into your browser.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the global communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing, and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.