Network Security Specialist III

4 weeks ago

Arlington, Virginia, United States Solutions³ LLC Full time
Job Title: Network Based Systems Analyst III

Solutions³ LLC is seeking a highly skilled Network Based Systems Analyst III to support our mission critical development and sustainment program for on and offsite incident response to Government agencies and critical infrastructure owners who experience cyber-attacks.

Job Description:

The successful candidate will provide front line response for digital forensics/incident response (DFIR) and proactively hunt for malicious cyber activity. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in cyber defense analysis using leading edge technologies and industry standard cyber defense tools.

Responsibilities:
  • Characterize and analyze network traffic to identify 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 cyber defense trend analysis and reporting
  • 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
  • Provide daily summary reports of network events and activity relevant to cyber defense practices
  • Receive and analyze network alerts from various sources within the enterprise and determine possible causes of alerts
  • Provide timely detection, identification, and alerting of possible attacks/intrusions, anomalous activities, and misuse activities and distinguish these incidents and events from benign activities
  • Use cyber defense tools for continual monitoring and analysis of system activity to identify malicious activity
  • Analyze identified malicious activity to determine weaknesses exploited, exploitation methods, effects on system and information
  • Determine tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) for intrusion sets
  • Examine network topologies to understand data flows through the network
  • Identify and analyze anomalies in network traffic using metadata
  • Conduct research, analysis, and correlation across a wide variety of all source data sets (indications and warnings)
  • Validate intrusion detection system (IDS) alerts against network traffic using packet analysis tools
  • Identify applications and operating systems of a network device based on network traffic
  • Reconstruct a malicious attack or activity based off network traffic
  • Identify network mapping and operating system (OS) fingerprinting activities
  • 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
  • Notify designated managers, cyber incident responders, and cybersecurity service provider team members of suspected cyber incidents and articulate the event's history, status, and potential impact for further action in accordance with the organization's cyber incident response plan
  • Prepare and update manuals, instructions, and operating procedures
  • Evaluate established methods and procedures and prepare recommendations for changes in methods and practices where appropriate
  • Plan and carry out difficult and complex assignments and develop new methods, approaches, and procedures
  • Conduct analyses and recommend resolution of complex issues affecting the specialty area
  • Ensure optimal use of commercially available products
  • Prepare and present reports
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of installed systems and services
Requirements:
  • Experience successfully developing and deploying signatures
  • Experience detecting host and network-based intrusions via intrusion detection technologies (e.g., Snort)
  • Experience implementing incident handling methodologies
  • Experience implementing protocol analyzers
  • Experience collecting data from a variety of cyber defense resources
  • Experience reading and interpreting signatures (e.g. snort)
  • Experience performing packet-level analysis
  • Experience conducting trend analysis
Desired Skills:
  • GSEC (SANS401), Arcsight (or other SEIM solution), Network+, Security+ and Python programming experience would be ideal
  • Strong math and science background
  • Experience with Carnegie Mellon SiLK tool suite
Desired Certifications:
  • One or more of the following professional certifications: GNFA, GCIH, GCIA, GSEC, CASP+, CySA+, PaLMS, FedVTE
  • GSEC (SANS401), Arcsight (or other SEIM solution), Network+, Security+
Required Education:

BS Computer Science, Cyber Security, Computer Engineering, or related degree; or HS Diploma and 7+ years of network investigations experience

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