SSUSA Job #777: Incident Response Analyst

Job Description

INCIDENT RESPONSE ANALYST

 

 

 

Responsibilities:

 

·         Proactively seek, monitor for and respond to security incidents, as well as perform personnel investigations

 

·         Exercise all phases of incident response life cycle: analysis, containment, eradication, remediation, recovery

 

·         Monitor for external threats, assessing risk to the company environment and driving risk mitigation and response activities

 

·         Evaluate external threat intelligence sources related to zero day attacks, exploit kits and malware to determine organizational risk and improve threat detection

 

·         Conduct host based forensics and analysis to determine root cause and impact; define, document, test and manage incident response processes; mature and integrate processes and technologies, with the objective of the continued development of a “single plane of glass” for monitoring and comprehensive incident response process

 

·         Stay abreast of the latest information security controls, practices, techniques and capabilities in the marketplace; lead internal skills development activities for information security personnel on the topic of security monitoring and incident response, by providing mentoring and by conducting knowledge sharing sessions

 

Qualifications:

 

·         Minimum five years of progressive security monitoring experience, security operations, and incident response activities; preferably within a professional services firm or similar environment

 

·         Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university

 

·         Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to understand complex problems while formally presenting them simplistically; ability to lead meetings, divide responsibilities, and influence people to take action to assist in the resolution of security incidents

 

·         Understanding of network and system intrusion and detection methods; examples of related technologies include Splunk, Next Generation Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP), Security information and event management (SIEM)

 

·         Experience with malware analysis, endpoint lateral movement detection methodologies and host forensic tools

 

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Job Location
New York City/New Jersey

Position Type
Permanent

Salary Range
TBD