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Cyber Security Analyst

2 months ago

Beltsville, Maryland, United States Peraton Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Cyber Security Analyst to join our team at Peraton. As a Cyber Security Analyst, you will play a critical role in protecting our organization's assets and infrastructure from cyber threats.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide monitoring support in a 24x7x365 environment to ensure the security and integrity of our systems and data.
  • Share in-depth knowledge and intelligence gained from cyber security events with stakeholders to inform decision-making and drive strategic initiatives.
  • Protect against and prevent potential cyber security threats and vulnerabilities through proactive measures and incident response.
  • Monitor and analyze network traffic to identify potential security threats and vulnerabilities, and implement mitigation strategies to prevent incidents.
  • Monitor and analyze Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) alerts to identify security issues for remediation and investigate events and incidents.
  • Provide response, technical assistance, and expertise for significant cyber incidents, investigations, and related operational events.
  • Contribute to security policies, procedures, and documentation to ensure compliance with industry standards and best practices.
  • Conduct advanced analysis and recommend remediation steps to mitigate the impact of cyber incidents.
  • Analyze network events to determine impact and develop strategies to prevent similar incidents in the future.
  • Develop and maintain analytical procedures to meet changing requirements and ensure the effectiveness of our security measures.
  • Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance with security standards and best practices.
  • Analyze identified malicious activity to determine weaknesses exploited, exploitation methods, effects on system and information, and develop strategies to prevent similar incidents.
  • Determine tactics, techniques, and procedures for intrusion sets and develop strategies to prevent similar incidents.
  • Work with stakeholders to resolve computer security incidents and vulnerability compliance.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance with security standards and best practices.
  • Collect and analyze intrusion artifacts (e.g., source code, malware, and system configuration) and use discovered data to enable mitigation of potential cyber defense incidents within the enterprise.
  • Perform real-time cyber defense incident handling (e.g., forensic collections, intrusion correlation and tracking, threat analysis, and direct system remediation) tasks to support incident response.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 0 years' experience required. An additional 4 years of experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
  • Possess ONE of the following certifications: CND; CCNA-Security; CySA+; GICSP; GSEC; Security+ CE; SSCP
  • Experience with Security Operations Center, network event analysis, and/or threat analysis.
  • Knowledge of cloud computing technologies to include Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).
  • Knowledge of traditional computing technologies architecture, design, and security.
  • Expertise in usage of log aggregation and security analysis tools.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of the Incident Response Lifecycle and how it applies to cloud, legacy, and hybrid environments.
  • Ability to identify remediation steps for cybersecurity events.
  • Demonstrated ability to utilize and leverage host-based tools to assist in determining scope and severity of a cybersecurity incident.
  • Demonstrated strong organizational skills.
  • Can analyze common encoding and obfuscation types (Base64, Caesar cipher, junk data, etc) and recognize advance types (XOR, AES, etc)
  • Can examine and investigate common packet traffic and protocols.
  • Can analyze common attack types (Cross-site scripting, directory traversal, denial of service, etc) and identify more advanced types (Ex. novel CVE related attacks)
  • Proven ability to operate in a time-sensitive environment.
  • Proven ability to communicate orally and written.
  • Proven ability to brief (technical/informational) senior leadership.
  • Ability to scope and perform impact analysis on incidents.
  • U.S. citizenship and an active Secret security clearance
  • Ability to obtain a final Top Secret security clearance
Preferred Qualifications
  • Knowledge of network architecture, design, and security.
  • Ability to analyze static and dynamic malware analysis reports.
  • Ability to analyze and identify anomalous code as malicious or benign.
  • Skill in detecting host and network-based intrusions via intrusion detection technologies.
  • Knowledge of which system files (e.g., log files, registry files, configuration files) contain relevant information and where to find those system files.
  • Skill in conducting trend analysis.
  • Knowledge of adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures.
  • Knowledge of different classes of attacks (e.g., passive, active, insider, close-in, distribution attacks).
  • Knowledge of cyber attackers (e.g., script kiddies, insider threat, non-nation state sponsored, and nation sponsored).
  • Knowledge of cyber-attack stages (e.g., reconnaissance, scanning, enumeration, gaining access, escalation of privileges, maintaining access, network exploitation, covering tracks).
  • Knowledge of system administration, network, and operating system hardening techniques.
  • Knowledge of packet-level analysis using appropriate tools.
  • Knowledge of intersection of on-prem and cloud-based technologies.
  • Knowledge of system design and process methodologies.
  • Ability to coordinate with enterprise-wide cyber defense staff to validate network alerts.
  • Assist in the construction of signatures which can be implemented on cyber defense network tools in response to new or observed threats within the network environment or enclave.