Information Security Analyst - IL5

Your Role:

The Information Security Analyst will participate in security-related projects and initiatives. The Analyst will assist with risk analysis and assessments on existing and proposed systems, document and report on key metrics and objectives, monitor and analyze security technologies such as IDS, IPS, Firewalls, Anti-Malware and provide security-related guidance and support. They will also monitor and analyze security events, learn about new security tools and take ownership of day-to-day security operations, primarily in a highly controlled environment. 

 
Your Opportunity:

• Analyze and investigate events from Cybersecurity appliances or reported incidents

• Document standard operating procedures matching day-to-day InfoSec operations

• Establish and maintain strong working relationship with all team members and all business units

• Take part in new vulnerability detection and remediation efforts across the enterprise

• Assist engineering group in evaluating and deploying new solutions

• Perform day-to-day analysis of logs to detect anomalies or events that could lead to incidents 

• Use threat intelligence to develop new detections and preventative measures across the enterprise

• Responding swiftly and effectively to potential security incidents reported to InfoSec

• Flexible and adaptive to changing situations in relation to incident handling

• Communications skills with individuals of varying technical skills

• Promote security awareness throughout the organization

• Perform other duties as assigned

What You'll Need:

• U.S. Citizen with ability to obtain a Secret Clearance (or currently hold an active Security Clearance- preferred)

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Information Technology, SANS training or equivalent experience

• Self-motivated while demonstrating a passion for Cybersecurity

• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision in a highly controlled and sensitive environment

• 1-4 years of experience in Information Security

• Familiar with Cloud Security Alliance and SANS top 20 critical controls

• Must have strong communication and teamwork skills

• Proficient in technical writing.  Mainly for SOPs, ticket annotations, and generating reports

• Understand how to read and apply threat intelligence, both indicators and techniques

• Understanding of Cloud Security, including how to identify attacks and what controls prevent those attacks

• Understand how to use a SIEM to find attacks, tune out noise, and build security visibility into the environment.

• Knowledge of different attack vectors such as endpoint compromise, web application attacks, and phishing.

• A desire to learn continuously, and a strong interest in cybersecurity best practices

• Ability to automate using Python, Powershell, Perl or similar.

• Familiarity with Anti-Virus, Firewalls, IDS/IPS, NAC, WAS, Tenable products, Splunk, SIEM, OSI model and CIA triad

• Familiar with LINUX/UNIX/Windows/Powershell command line

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