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Cyber Defense Analysts - Mid

ECS Federal, LLC
Washington, DC Full Time
POSTED ON 2/19/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/17/2025

ECS is seeking a Cyber Defense Incident Responder – Mid to work in our Washington, DC office.

  • Coordinate incident response functions.
  • Coordinate and provide expert technical support to enterprise-wide cyber defense technicians to resolve cyber defense incidents.
  • Correlate incident data to identify specific vulnerabilities and make recommendations that enable expeditious remediation.
  • Perform analysis of log files from a variety of sources (e.g., individual host logs, network traffic logs, firewall logs, and intrusion detection system [IDS] logs) to identify possible threats to network security.
  • Perform cyber defense incident triage, to include determining scope, urgency, and potential impact, identifying the specific vulnerability, and making recommendations that enable expeditious remediation.
  • Perform cyber defense trend analysis and reporting.
  • Perform initial, forensically sound collection of images and inspect to discern possible mitigation/remediation on enterprise systems.
  • Perform real-time cyber defense incident handling (e.g., forensic collections, intrusion correlation and tracking, threat analysis, and direct system remediation) tasks to support deployable Incident Response Teams (IRTs).
  • Receive and analyze network alerts from various sources within the enterprise and determine possible causes of such alerts.
  • Track and document cyber defense incidents from initial detection through final resolution.
  • Employ approved defense-in-depth principles and practices (e.g., defense-in-multiple places, layered defenses, security robustness).

Salary Range: $89,000 - $116,000

General Description of Benefits

Requirements:
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Knowledge of cyber attackers (e.g., script kiddies, insider threat, non-nation state sponsored, and nation sponsored).
  • Knowledge of system administration, network, and operating system hardening techniques.
  • Knowledge of cyber-attack stages (e.g., reconnaissance, scanning, enumeration, gaining access, escalation of privileges, maintaining access, network exploitation, covering tracks).
  • Ability to apply techniques for detecting host and network-based intrusions using intrusion detection technologies.
  • Demonstrated ability to interact effectively with senior management and leadership.
  • Ability to design incident response for cloud service models.
  • Knowledge of incident categories, incident responses, and timelines for responses.
  • Knowledge of incident response and handling methodologies.
  • Knowledge of the common networking and routing protocols (e.g., TCP/IP), services (e.g., web, mail, DNS), and how they interact to provide network communications.
  • Knowledge of Application Security Risks (e.g., Open Web Application Security Project Top 10 list)
Certifications/Licenses:
  • Bachelor's degree or higher
  • 5 years' experience in Malware analysis, digital forensics, data/network analysis, penetration testing, information assurance, leading incident handling
  • Must have, or be able to obtain within 3 months, one of the following certifications: CERT Certified Computer Security Incident Handler (CSIH), ECC Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), GIAC Information Security Fundamentals (GISF), or ISC2 Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP).
  • Active Secret clearance

Req Benefits:
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Salary : $89,000 - $116,000

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