Associate

About the Role

• Support the response to cyber incidents, analyze security events, and help reduce potential impact to client systems and data.
• Focus on learning, contributing to project tasks, adapting to changing client needs, and building skills through hands-on work in a fast-paced environment.
• Work across incident management activities, gather information from different sources, and help identify patterns that support timely resolution and future resilience.
• Take ownership of assigned work, communicate clearly with team members and clients, and apply professional and technical standards while developing commercial awareness.
• Build personal brand through reliable execution, curiosity, and a learning mindset, while contributing to cybersecurity services within PwC's Cyber, Data & Tech Risk network and Cyber Defence go-to-market focus.

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting cyber incident response activities by triaging alerts, validating incident severity, and documenting findings
• Analyzing logs, endpoint data, and threat intelligence to identify attack patterns and trace malicious activity
• Assisting with containment, eradication, and recovery actions for security incidents across client environments
• Updating incident response plans, playbooks, and case records to reflect investigative outcomes and response steps
• Performing digital forensic tasks to preserve evidence, reconstruct timelines, and summarize technical observations
• Monitoring security operations center workflows to help detect anomalies and escalate urgent threats
• Contributing to vulnerability assessment and remediation tracking efforts tied to incident root causes
• Preparing clear technical summaries and status updates for internal teams and client stakeholders

Requirements & Tech Stack

• At least a Bachelor's degree

Qualifications

• Preference for at least one of the following fields of study: Business Administration/Management, Computer and Information Science, Information CyberSecurity, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Computer Applications, Computer Engineering
• Developing familiarity with incident response, threat detection, and remediation activities
• Applying cybersecurity frameworks, governance, and threat intelligence in client support
• Gathering data from logs, alerts, and forensic sources for pattern analysis
• Demonstrating active listening, clear communication, and feedback responsiveness
• Adapting quickly across varied clients, teams, and fast-paced engagements