Lead Threat Research Analyst

Description:

Do the phrases “mining for gold” or “thrill of the chase” pique your interest? If so, you could be the cybersecurity professional we need to search for threats and protect our clients against sensitive data theft.

As Threat Hunter, you will work closely with our senior threat researcher and partner with clients to investigate the threat leads on their system. You will help to extract data and remove the noise in order to

pinpoint the internal and external threats. Our client base is global and in nearly every industry.

What The Role Offers
 

• Work with behavioral analytics threat hunting technologies to analyze and identify threat patterns or indicators that can be used for threat detection on our platform.
• Follow the emerging threats and attack techniques by reading detailed analytics anomalies.
• Identify, analyze and define the attack path of advanced intrusions.
• Produce reports that can form the basis for new behavioural models.
• Maintain situational awareness of cyber activity by reviewing new anomalies and tracking attack campaigns through their attack cycle.
• Track threat actors, their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), and their associated Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) through the analytics.
• Follow the analytic results leveraging additional search techniques including Kibana and Athena.
   

What You Need To Succeed

Understanding the cybersecurity landscape

Strong knowledge of current and past malware methods, attack methodologies, and TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, Procedures)

Define client relationships and understand the critical assets in their environment to develop additional detection patterns.

Experience with common industry EDR/SOAR/Anomaly detection solutions (FireEye, Carbon Black, Endgame, Falcon, etc.)

Experience with the incident response process, including detecting advanced adversaries, log analysis using SIEM, and malware triage (Optional)

Knowledge and experience working with the Cyber Kill Chain Model, MITER ATT&CK Matrix. (Optional)