Cyber Security Analyst

Vigilant is hiring a Security Analyst to join our Security Services team. In this role, you will ensure the assessment of information security events and incidents across Vigilant's client environments and collaborate with a team of skilled analysts to address complex problems.

Responsibilities:

• The SOC Analyst provides incident detection and response services for our CyberDNA managed Network Security Monitoring service. This role performs and participates in proactive hunts to identify anomalous activity indicative of active compromise, previous compromise, misconfigurations, or other notable observations to support the protection of our customers' environments
• When not hunting, this role triages and investigates alerts generated from multiple detection technologies & takes necessary action to identify, scope, and guide customers to a rapid and successful remediation
• You will use your knowledge of Information Security to monitor SIEM and logging environments for security events and alerts to potential (or active) threats, intrusions, and/or compromises
• You will work to understand the global threat landscape by working with Vigilant Cyber Threat Intelligence team to maintain awareness
• You will assist with containment of threats and remediation of environment during or after an incident
• You will leverage your knowledge to write comprehensive reports of incident investigations
• Engage with other teams to ensure detections are working as intended
• Provide feedback to the Threat Detection team regarding the logic of existing detections to reduce false-positive rates, and align them more consistently with their intent
• Ensure that security-relevant data is flowing to appropriate systems
• Collaborate across teams for training, development opportunities, and service improvement
• Ensure that documentation, workflows and processes remain accurate and up-to-date

Requirements:

• Expert at analyzing and dissecting PCAP data to validate security events, interpret network traffic, and extract indicators
• Skilled with data collection, log analysis tools, pattern recognition, and managing dashboards
• Baseline knowledge of network protocols, network analysis tools, and general network architecture
• You have a passion for learning
• You possess a demonstrated ability to speak with people with varying knowledge in IT Security concepts and can tailor your message to the audience
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to see things through the customer's eyes
• Tremendous attention to detail
• Eligible to work in the United States without company sponsorship
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information security or related discipline is required or equivalent work experience
• Prior SOC/CSIRT experience in a 24x7 watch desk environment preferred
• Experience using industry standard EDR tools and platforms including (SentinelOne, Carbon Black, Crowdstrike, Defender ATP)
• Strong knowledge of attacker tools, malware families, and known threat actor/group TTPs
• You have a deep understanding of Incident Response framework, root cause analysis
• Capability to look at a process to identify opportunities for cycle-time reduction
• Experience hunting for unknown threats, as well as tracking existing campaigns and adversaries
• Experience providing managed NSM services to multiple customers is a plus
• Hands-on experience with firewalls, routers, and other security appliances