Principal Threat Analyst
Job Summary
Job Description
- 6+ years of experience in assessing vulnerabilities and risks
- Knowledge of third-party software and security threat landscape
- Knowledge of cybersecurity threats, risks, and basic technologies
- Experience with and understanding of CVE's and CVSS scores
- Knowledge of compensating controls and mitigating factors
- Knowledge of Information Security frameworks, guidelines, and methodologies
- Knowledge of Windows and/or Linux operating systems
- Knowledge of cybersecurity controls and logging and monitoring tools
- Ability to interact with all levels of personnel
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong in problem solving and analytical skills
- Ability to work on multiple projects
- Good teammate with flexibility
- Knowledge of cyber threat landscape
- Moderate to complex investigations using multiple tools
- Security use case design recommendations for threat detection
- Threat response activities such as quarantining host
- Proactive threat hunting using multiple client tools
- Process development and documentation
- Application of threat intelligence
- Experience with the MITRE ATT&CK framework
- Experience with alert triage and endpoint investigations using technologies such as EDR
- Phishing analysis
- Malware analysis (does not include reverse engineering)
- MITRE ATT&CK framework expertise
- Provide recommendations on tuning of security detection platforms
- Knowledge AWS, Azure, GCP cloud service technology
- Basic fraud and insider threat specific investigation skills
- Knowledge of metrics and reporting with data visualization tools
- Demonstrable data analytics skills
- Must have a passion for data analysis
- Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion through Employee Resource Groups
- Work/life balance
- Professional training resources
- Creative problem-solving
- Volunteer Opportunities
- The ability and technology necessary to productively work remotely/from home (where applicable)
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Job Details
This position will be fully remote and can be hired anywhere in the continental U.S.
This team provides 24/7 support. This shift is 10:00am-7:00pm EST Monday-Friday.
The Principal Analyst will provide deep level analysis for client investigations utilizing customer provided data sources, audit, and monitoring tools at both the government and enterprise level. The Principal Analyst will work closely with our Technology Engineers, Architects, and Threat Analysts to service customers.
How You'll Make an Impact
Operate independently in a geographically dispersed team, while maintaining situational awareness and keeping the team up to date
Perform security monitoring and incident response activities across the networks, leveraging a variety of tools and techniques
Detect incidents through proactive “hunting” across security-relevant data sets
Thoroughly document incident response analysis activities
Review investigations conducted by more junior analysts to ensure quality standards are met
Develop new, repeatable methods for finding malicious activity across the networks
Provide recommendations to enhance detection and protection capabilities
Regularly present technical topics to technical and non-technical audiences
Develop and follow detailed operational processes and procedures to appropriately analyze, escalate, and assist in the remediation of information security incidents
Prioritize multiple high-priority tasks and formulate responses/recommendations to customers and team members in a fast-paced environment
Provide assistance to other security teams
Continually develop new technical skills and push overall team capabilities forward
Engage with and mentor other team members
Work with other teams on major engineering and architecture initiatives
Be innovative with their understanding of attack methodologies, malware analysis, malicious toolkits, and how those may manifest within various security technologies
Advanced proactive threat hunting
Understands advanced adversary emulation concepts
Advanced use case design for insider threat, operational, threat detection and response
Review of defensive and detective controls to reduce client attack surface
What we're hiring for
6+ years operational experience assessing, reviewing, and remediating infrastructure vulnerabilities, CVE’s, and risks.
Knowledge of third-party software vulnerabilities, security threat landscape, especially network and server threats
Knowledge of cyber security threats and risks, vendor computing environments, basic systems, and network technologies.
Experience with and understanding of CVE’s and CVSS scores
Knowledge of compensating controls and mitigating factors.
Knowledge of Information Security frameworks, guidelines, and standard methodologies.
Knowledge of the Windows and / or Linux operating systems
Knowledge and understanding of Cybersecurity controls and logging and monitoring tools.
Ability to expertly interact with all levels of personnel
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Strong in problem solving and analytical skills
Ability to work on multiple projects by prioritizing and results oriented approach
Good teammate with flexibility required for support operations
Be well versed in the cyber threat landscape; have an advanced understanding and knowledge of what tactics and techniques are being used by adversaries; have an advanced understand and knowledge of what security controls and/or telemetry data is available to detect these tactics and techniques; and be familiar with cyber security incident response terminology, processes, and techniques.
Moderate to complex investigations (multiple tools) including endpoint, UEBA, public cloud, SAAS and packet analysis
Security use case design recommendations for threat detection
Threat response activities such as quarantining host and other common response playbook activities
Proactive threat hunting using multiple client tools
Process development and documentation
Application of threat intelligence to improve detection and response capabilities
Extensive experience with the MITRE @ttack framework and associated tactics
Extensive alert triage and endpoint investigations using technologies such as EDR
Phishing analysis
Malware analysis (does not include reverse engineering)
MITRE attack framework expertise and understanding of common attack tactics used by threat actors
Provide recommendations on tuning of security detection platforms and use cases to improve accuracy of detection
Knowledge AWS, Azure, GCP cloud service technology
Basic fraud and insider threat specific investigation skills
Knowledge of metrics and reporting with the use of data visualization tools such as Tableau
Demonstrable data analytics skills
Must have a passion for data analysis
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Salary Range Description
$116,600.00 - $159,900.00 AnnualThe Hiring Range provided for this role is informed by (but not limited to) various factors including responsibilities of the position, work experience, education/training, internal peer equity, geography, as well as other market influences when extending an offer. The disclosed range has not been adjusted for these factors. This role may also be eligible to participate in a variable incentive-based bonus plan. Optiv offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package, of which salary is a component.
What you can expect from Optiv
- A company committed to championing Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion through our Employee Resource Groups.
- Work/life balance
- Professional training resources
- Creative problem-solving and the ability to tackle unique, complex projects
- Volunteer Opportunities. “Optiv Chips In” encourages employees to volunteer and engage with their teams and communities.
- The ability and technology necessary to productively work remotely/from home (where applicable)
EEO Statement
Optiv is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants for employment will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age 40 and over, marital status, genetic information, national origin, status as an individual with a disability, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.
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Optiv is the cyber advisory and solutions leader, delivering strategic and technical expertise to nearly 6,000 companies across every major industry. We partner with organizations to advise, deploy and operate cybersecurity programs from strategy and managed security services to risk, integration and technology solutions. With clients at the center of our unmatched ecosystem of people, products, partners and programs, we accelerate business progress like no other company can.
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