Part Time
Houston
Posted 3 years ago

Job Description
Reporting to the office of the Global Information Security Officer, the Cyber Defense Analyst is responsible for leading efforts to prevent, monitor and respond to information/data breaches and cyber-attacks.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Characterize and analyze network traffic to ide ntify anomalous activity and potential threats to network resources.

• Coordinate with enterprise-wide cyber defense staff to validate network alerts.

• Document and escalate incidents (including event’s history, status, and potential impact for further action) that may cause ongoing and immediate impact to the environment.

• Perform event correlation using information gathered from a variety of sources within the enterprise to gain situational awareness and determine the effectiveness of an observed attack.

• Perform security reviews and identify security gaps in security architecture resulting in recommendations for inclusion in the risk mitigation strategy.

• Provide timely detection, identification, and alerting of possible attacks/intrusions, anomalous activities, and misuse activities and distinguish these incidents and events from benign activities.

• Isolate and remove malware.


Requirements
Ability to interpret the information collected by network tools.

Knowledge of the following:

• Cyber threats and vulnerabilities.

• Authentication, authorization, and access control methods.

• Host/network access control mechanisms

• Network access, identity, and access management (e.g., public key infrastructure, Oauth, OpenID, SAML, SPML).

• Network traffic analysis methods.

Skills including:

• Developing and deploying signatures.

• detecting host and network-based intrusions via intrusion detection technologies

• Incident handling methodologies.

• packet-level analysis

Preferred Experience
FireEye Helix and Endpoint experience.

Job Features

Job Category

Information Technology

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