About the job
Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!
Responsibilities:
- Research, analyze, and assess attack surface and vulnerability data
- Develop tailored and actionable mitigation strategies and plans to address vulnerability risk
- Work with new and emerging vulnerability data to identify potential attack paths in critical systems.
- Document, develop and present mitigation strategies in web applications, databases, standalone applications, etc.
- Analyze the root cause of vulnerabilities and support the prioritization of mitigations based on risk and return on mitigation
- Provide mitigation strategies that prioritize risk against level of effort for multiple systems or organizations
- Catalog mitigation advice, challenges, and trends and patterns
- Patch diffing and reverse engineering with tools such as Ghidra, IDA, etc.
- Provide subject matter expertise on tailored mitigations to resolve and remediate vulnerabilities on targeted technologies
- Work in fast-paced startup like environment with shifting priorities to handle and maintain balance with multiple stakeholders.
- Conduct research to assess and create software patches and configuration changes to be applied to varied software, middleware and hardware
- Provide assessment including security, system, and business impact of vulnerabilities
- Must be able to think ahead to avoid business outages based on the lab results
- Analyze vulnerability data and support management of identified vulnerabilities, including tracking, remediation, and reporting
Desired Skills:
- Excellent understanding of network, system and application security
- Experience with IDA Pro, Ghidra, or similar binary analysis tool
- Knowledge of various vulnerability scanning solutions is a plus
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Graduate with preferable 4 years degree or at least 3-year degree with computer science and information technology background
- Secure architecture designs and use of detection/protection mechanisms (e.g., firewalls, IDS/IPS, full-packet capture technologies) to mitigate risk
- A solid understanding of industry best practices for Patch Management
- Specific demonstrated experience mapping business processes and comparing those processes to industry best practices
- Background around using or understanding of security tools would be plus
- Solid understanding of the security implications of a patch on web applications, Windows, Linux, Mac OS operating systems
- Thorough testing of patches in a non-production environment
- Have working knowledge of basic operation systems commands and tooling - Windows, Linux, Mac OS
- Should have very good communication and articulation skills
- Ability and ready to learn new technology and should be a good team player
What you get to do:
Work within Threat Research, detection and response teams and analysts to define the priority, design the solution, and contribute to build framework for patching vulnerabilities
