Location
Herndon, VA | United States
Job description
GENERAL DUTIES:
- Identifying misuse, malware, or unauthorized activity on monitored networks.
- Analyzing all relevant cyber security event data and other data sources for attack indicators and potential security breaches.
- Assisting in coordination during incidents.
- Identifying intrusions utilizing various detection and prevention systems and other security event data sources on 24x7x365 basis.
- Analyzing intrusion related data to determine root cause and identify follow on activity while coordinating with Incident Handlers, Hunters, and various partners.
- Correlating data from intrusion detection and prevention systems with data from other sources such as firewall, web server, and DNS logs, to include netflow, metadata, and pcap analysis.
- Contributing in tuning and filtering of events and information, creating custom views and content using all available tools.
- Reviewing assembled data with firewall administrators, engineering, system administrators and other appropriate groups to determine the risk of a given event.
- Contributing to the development of playbooks and procedures for handling each security event detected.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Excellent interpersonal, organizational, writing, communications, and briefing skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent and 2-4+ years of progressively responsible experience in Cyber Security, InfoSec, Security Engineering, Network Engineering with emphasis in cyber security issues and operations, computer incident response, systems architecture, data management.
- Familiarity with the following classes of enterprise cyber defense technologies:
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems.
- Network Intrusion Detection System/Intrusion Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS).
- Host Intrusion Detection System/Intrusion Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS).
- Network and Host malware detection and prevention.
- Network and Host forensic applications.
- Web/Email gateway security technologies.
CLEARANCE:
- Full Scope Polygraph minimum
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