Cyber Threat Specialist
Responsibilities
- Monitors, analyzes, and interprets system logs for events and incidents reflective of unauthorized access or operational irregularities and escalates for action as appropriate.
- Responds to incidents to prevent additional loss and to obtain and preserve forensic evidence.
- Collaborates with appropriate response partners, assist with determining the root cause of incidents and work with stakeholders and responsible parties to remediate any identified control gaps or failures
- Escalate issues to management in a timely manner with appropriate information regarding severity, exposure, and action items; this role requires critical thinking and investigative mindset coupled effective written, and verbal communication skills.
- Act as a mentor to more junior anaylsts
- Promotes activities to foster information security awareness throughout the organization.
Required
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or other relevant experience.
- 6 to 8 years of experience with the analysis/investigation and containment of potential data breaches or cyber security incidents.
- Working knowledge of UBA, DLP and SIEM technologies
- Knowledge of current hacking techniques, vulnerability disclosures, data breach incidents, and security analysis techniques
- Knowledge of malware families, botnets, threats by sector, and various attack campaigns and attacker methods, tools/techniques/practices
Job Type
Full-Time Regular
Full-Time Regular
Location
Short Hills NJ
Short Hills NJ