Threat Detection & Response Analyst – Tier 1

Role Overview

• Perform cybersecurity threat detection, assessment, and mitigation efforts as part of a 24/7 global team
• Investigate potential cybersecurity events across multiple environments using various tools and techniques
• Support inquiries from compliance teams such as IT risk management and internal and external auditors to ensure documentation is complete and processes are in compliance with information security policies
• Create reports analyzing activities or trends both within and outside of the organization
• Perform threat hunting across the environment to attempt to detect any adversary activity
• Support the development of security operations detections, playbooks, and automations to ensure threat detection, monitoring, response, and forensics activities align with best practices, minimize gaps in detection and response, and provide comprehensive mitigation of threats
• Reviews internal logs and alerts to identify potential cybersecurity events. Triage cases based on output from automated alerts, and determine when to escalate to other teams
• Monitors external service provider activity to detect potential cybersecurity events
• Analyzes security data from all systems in real time to spot and thwart potential threats, attacks, and other violations
• Analyzes compromised systems and remediates to a clean state
• Performs breach indicator assessments to investigate network traffic for malicious activity
• Assists with internal or third-party employee investigations
• Assists in the production of various reports which identify and analyze relevant upcoming and ongoing threats to the enterprise
• Research evolving threats, techniques, tools, and vulnerabilities in support of information security efforts
• Stays current with information security program developments, industry frameworks, changes in the company, industry trends, and current security practices

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Cyber Security, Computer Science, or related discipline or equivalent work experience
• 1 + years of experience working in the cybersecurity or related field
• Relevant technical and industry certifications, such as those provided by GIAC, EC-Council, ISC2, and CompTIA are preferred
• Experience in one or more security domains including Security Governance and Oversight, Security Risk Management, Network Security, Threat and Vulnerability Management, or Incident Response and Forensics preferred
• Experience with information security risk management, including information security audits, reviews, and risk assessments

Tech Stack

• Cyber Security

Benefits

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
• Retirement plans
• Educational assistance and training programs
• Income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities
• Paid maternity and parental bonding leave
• Paid vacation, sick days, and holidays