Risk analyst Review

Risk analyst - reviewing old and new solutions used in the business and doing risk assessments to detect potential vulnerabilities to address before deployment. Making sure solutions are secured and implement ways to mitigate, avoid risks all together.

A lot, risk analysis, coding, hardware and technical awareness, studying cyber attacks and how to protect against those. On a day-to-day receiving new projects and communicating with the business, my teams and third parties.

I'm enjoying it as this is what I wanted to do since I've joined Asda. The first year in End User Compute team (tech support) gave me the necessary background to evolve in cyber security. I enjoy learning every day and seeing different projects to work on.

Very well organised, between online learning (videos, exams, hands on labs), online lessons given by QA's subject matter experts. Really qualified people, easy to talk to and interested in their work. I am reaching the end of my apprenticeship including the creation of my portfolio and a project to prepare.

As much as I need. There are many teams in cyber security within Asda and this apprenticeship allowed me to reach out to majority of my teammates, outside of my day-to-day job. For instance coding, incident response, forensics, pen test, red team, etc...

As much as I need. [This section of the comment has been removed by a member of the RateMyApprenticeship Team because it did not meet our site terms and conditions] is very responsive and always giving me the help I need by either setting up a call or suggesting videos, documents or materials I can inspire myself from.

Gives me an overview of cyber security and all its aspects, not simply one role that would be risk analyst. I have been spending time learning about legal obligations, compliance, CSF, the OSI layers and all potential attacks on different layers.

Yes, days out, visiting sites such as depots, stores and see how the solutions implemented and reviewed by our teams are used by our colleagues on site. This is very interesting and also participate in team bonding, bringing people together beyond work. There are also special occasions where the team gathers to play darts or celebrate. Nothing mandatory of course.

Yes

Great company to work for. Inclusive, family oriented, flexible hours and hybrid work opportunities. Lately, there was a lot of people made redundant, so if anything it's not as secured as it once was.

Give it a shot, be yourself and don't pretend you know it all. It's good to learn, practice hands on and getting it wrong to understand and become familiar with various processes. Give it some time and you will become expert at what you're doing. There's always more to learn and cyber is part of those ever evolving jobs where you can't really get bored.