Staff Cybersecurity Researcher

2 months ago


Santa Clara, California, United States Palo Alto Networks Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Staff Security Researcher to join our Cortex Xpanse Security Research Engineering team. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for creating, validating, and deploying vulnerability signatures and protocol payloads to detect critical CVEs. You will also contribute to our mission by defining and delivering on Expanse's technical roadmap.

Your Responsibilities

  • Contribute to Xpanse's critical vulnerability response by implementing vulnerability signatures and payloads to detect presence of critical CVEs.
  • Research trending threats and develop proof of concepts to detect presence of confirmed and inferred vulnerabilities.
  • Research and develop fingerprints to identify and structure more and more types of services running on the global Internet.
  • Proactively add customer-requested policies and implement protocol payloads while minimizing false positives and false negatives.
  • Research emerging vulnerability threats on the global Internet and contribute to Cortex Research blogs and publications.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or other technical discipline (or equivalent professional or military experience).
  • High-level knowledge of network security vulnerabilities, CVSS scoring, and exploit techniques.
  • Familiarity with one or more programming languages (Java, Python, Go, Bash).
  • Ability to concisely communicate complex subject matter to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Ability to work independently as a researcher as well as part of larger cross-functional teams.

About Us

Cortex Xpanse helps protect some of the world's most important organizations by finding risks on the Internet that no one else can find. Our security research teams are at the core of our products and are responsible for building security detections for our products that allow customers to turn trillions of Internet data points into critical cybersecurity insights.

We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.



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