Cyber Security Analyst

Position Name: Senior Cybersecurity Risk Analyst

Employee Type: Full Time – Permanent – Direct Hire

Experience: Senior

Location: San Antonio, TX (4 days onsite)

Compensation: $100-145K with 12-15% Bonus pay out

*If interested and qualified, please reach out to the professional recruiter, Nicole, at nrosipal@apexsystems.com

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Cybersecurity Analyst to join our Risk team within the Cybersecurity Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) organization. The successful candidate will be responsible for assessing and analyzing cybersecurity risks and identifying appropriate mitigation measures for Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) environments, systems, and third-party solutions. The Senior Cybersecurity Analyst will ensure appropriate controls are in place to mitigate risks by working closely with business partners, including IT and OT program and process owners.

The Senior Cybersecurity Analyst will develop and implement cyber risk assessment techniques to identify and pre-empt security risks. This role involves demonstrating business risks associated with these vulnerabilities and providing risk treatment and prioritization strategies. The analyst will perform comprehensive risk assessments and be responsible for continuously monitoring and reviewing these assessments. The analyst should have in-depth knowledge of NIST standards and frameworks such as the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), NIST 800-30, NIST 800-37, NIST 800-53, and NIST 800-82. Effective communication of cyber risks to business stakeholders and collaboration with various departments to ensure a clear understanding of these risks is essential. The analyst will manage cybersecurity risks specific to IT and OT environments and third-party solutions, ensuring compliance with organizational policies. Additionally, the analyst will stay updated with the latest cybersecurity trends and recommend improvements to existing cybersecurity policies, procedures, and tools.

*This position belongs to a family of jobs with increasing responsibility, competency, and skill level. Actual position title and pay grade will be based on the selected candidate’s experience and qualifications.

Key Responsibilities

• Conducts detailed analyses on controls related to complex business processes and systems and relationship to other internal and external systems to assess business impact of the security issues.
• Drives the resolution of routine multi-functional technical issues. Oversees, advises on and manages Cybersecurity assessments and associated risks.
• Develops and evaluates efficiency and effectiveness of security processes and controls through creation and maintenance of detailed security and/or compliance reports, as necessary.
• Analyzes and maintains security audits and reports, monitors security advisory groups, and assist with security incidents and intrusions.
• Leads implementation of global security initiatives, policies, and compliance requirements. Develops and tracks metrics related to cybersecurity; uses existing cybersecurity tools for running web application scanning, vulnerability scanning and external pentests and help with the remediation effort.
• Manages cyber security-related consulting, guidance, and support to customers and stakeholders.
• Translates security principles to assist configuration teams with incorporating security into build and configuration processes.
• Monitors emerging Information Technology/Operations Technology and cybersecurity technologies as well as their impact on the security landscape.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience.
• Professional certification, e.g. Security+, Network+, CISA, CRISC, CISSP preferred.
• 5+ years of relevant experience required.

Skills

• Cybersecurity Research - Applies technical knowledge of the latest data, developments, and trends in the cybersecurity world to identify cybersecurity vulnerabilities within an organization or industry.
• Cybersecurity Risk Management - The process of developing cyber risk assessment and treatment techniques that can effectively pre-empt and identify significant security loopholes and weaknesses, demonstrating the business risks associated with these loopholes and providing risk treatment and prioritization strategies to effectively address the cyber-related risks, threats and vulnerabilities, ensuring appropriate levels of protection, confidentiality, integrity and privacy in alignment with the security framework.
• DevSecOps - A set of practices that automates the integration of security at every phase of the software development lifecycle, from initial design through integration, testing, deployment, and software delivery, with an aim towards shortening the systems development life cycle and pas well as continuous delivery and a security first approach.
• Digital Forensics - Develop and manage digital forensic investigation and reporting plan which specifies the tools, methods, procedures and practices to be used. This includes the collection, analysis and preservation of digital evidence in line with standard procedures and reporting of findings for legal proceedings.
• Ethical Hacking - The act of locating weaknesses and vulnerabilities of computer and information systems by duplicating the intent and actions of malicious hackers. Ethical hacking is also known as penetration testing, intrusion testing, or red teaming.
• Identity and Access Management (IAM) - Identity and access management (IAM) is a framework of business processes, policies and technologies that facilitates the management of electronic or digital identities, ensuring that the right users have the appropriate access to technology resources.
• Incident Response Management - An organized approach to addressing and managing the aftermath of a security breach or cyberattack, also known as an IT incident, computer incident or security incident.
• Intrusion Detection & Analysis - The use of security analytics, including the outputs from intelligence analysis, predictive research and root cause analysis in order to search for and detect potential breaches or identify recognized indicators and warnings. Also, monitoring and collating external vulnerability reports for organizational relevance, ensuring that relevant vulnerabilities are rectified through formal change processes.
• Malware Analysis - Software intentionally designed to cause damage to a computer, server, client, or computer network. A wide variety of types of malware exist, common categories include computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses, ransomware, spyware, adware, and scareware.
• Penetration Testing - The practice of testing a computer system, network or web application to find security vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit. Penetration testing can be automated with software applications or performed manually.
• Root Cause Analysis - An iterative process, designed to investigate and categorize the root causes of events or failures that may have negative impacts to the overall performance of a system and establish a flexible and effective framework for the necessary corrective and preventive actions.
• Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDL) - Involves integrating security testing and other activities into an existing development process. Examples include writing security requirements alongside functional requirements and performing an architecture risk analysis during the design phase of the SDLC.
• Security Controls Management - Manages and maintains an information system that focus on the management of risk and the management of information systems security.
• Security Governance - The process of developing and disseminating corporate security policies, frameworks, and guidelines to ensure that day-to-day business operations are guarded and well protected against risks, threats, and vulnerabilities.
• Security Information & Event Management (SIEM) - A set of tools and services offering real-time visibility across an organization's information security systems, and event log management that consolidates data from numerous sources.
• Security Policy Management - The process of identifying, implementing, and managing the rules and procedures that all individuals must follow when accessing and using an organization's IT assets and resources.
• Threat Analysis & Modeling - Monitor intelligence-gathering and anticipate potential threats to an IT/OT systems proactively. This involves the pre-emptive analysis of potential perpetrators, anomalous activities and evidence-based knowledge and inferences on perpetrators' motivations and tactics.
• Threat Hunting - Searches through networks, endpoints, and datasets to detect and isolate cyber threats that evade existing security solutions.
• Threat Intelligence Analysis - Enable and conduct analysis of malicious threats, to examine their characteristics, behaviors, capabilities, intent and interactions with the environment as well as the development of defense and mitigation strategies and techniques to effectively combat such threats.