SOC analyst

Top Skills' Details

1. At least 5 years in IT, and at least 3+ years’ experience working in a SOC and/or participating in Incident Response activities such as host triage and retrieval, malware analysis, remote system analysis, and remediation efforts. Additional IT background in systems administration, networking, help desk, etc.
2. Specific SOC experience required: experience reviewing alerts for PowerShell, Linux audit events, O365 alerts and/or AWS alerts.
3. AWS Knowledge/Skills - at a basic level, someone who understands how AWS works at least from a provisioning/AIM/alerts perspective (those get forwarded directly to Splunk. Ability to log into AWS under the various tools, and having context of which tool to go to to triage what you're seeing. Somebody with a very basic knowledge of that architecture and could go into those tools in a straightforward manner.

Additional Nice-to-have skills:
• Mimecast e-mail security experience - at our client, the ISRC team is using Metasploit for e-mail security to generate the e-mails and then a lot of troubleshooting once that team sends out the phishing campaigns is done by Dave's team in Mimecast.
• O365 experience
• Autonomy - Someone who could take the data they're given and can pivot and think. They're not just take what's given to them, have a use case in the SIEM where they don't ever go into the command line, and then just escalate it to another team that does all the pivoting.

ob Summary: The SOC Analyst assists in the detection, response and remediation of cyber related attacks on the enterprise. This role support the areas of incident response and forensics and participates in incident response activities. Provide thorough results which are documented and correlated. Works with a managed security service provider (MSSP) to onboard new event sources and use cases. Utilizes technologies such as DLP, DNS, IPS, proxy, SIEM, and related endpoint, mobile and cloud controls to complete incident response activities and threat hunting.

Technology Landscape:
They are running just Splunk Core. Not running Splunk ES (enterprise security bolt on - separate license/bolt on). The people who are exposed to only Splunk ES tend to just stick to their dashboards and don't know how to write queries.

Principal Duties:
• Respond to and perform incident investigations for severity level incidents (high, medium, low) while working with IT and business areas.
• Maintain skills and capabilities required to maintain, process, and develop intelligence products that are actionable to internal InfoSec functions, Cyber Security stakeholders, and the business areas.
• Gain understanding and employ multiple analytical frameworks to drive Cybersecurity Maturity model lifecycle against threats that are of interest to the InfoSec organization.
• Provide support in the detection, response, mitigation, and reporting of real or potential cyber threats to the organization and assist in the automation of these processes.
• Perform threat intelligence collection, analysis, and actionable intelligence extraction from the numerous cyber threat intelligence sources that are available externally and internally to the  InfoSec organization.
• Assist in developing detection and alert criteria and work directly with Operational Support Team to drive monitoring and defense improvements.
• Assist as needed with forensic analysis of network packet captures, DNS, proxy, malware, host-based security and application logs, as well as logs from various types of security sensors.
• Perform root cause analysis of security incidents for further enhancement of overall InfoSec defenses.
• Provide metrics to measure the effectiveness of the incident response program at request of Security leadership and SOC lead.
• Participate in incident response operations and development of standard operating procedures, run books and related templates. Recommend process improvements.
• Participate in all tabletop exercises.
• Update incident response plan and procedures as well as SOC runbooks.
• Provide support, maintenance and development of the Security Information and Event Monitoring (SIEM) platform. This includes the integration of standard and non-standard logs into SIEM solution while revising and developing processes to strengthen security operations.
• Assist in overseeing and providing feedback for third party managed security service provider(s).
• Participate in testing to validate effectiveness of security monitoring and alerting.
• Assist with the static and dynamic malware analysis to support InfoSec defenses and understanding of threat actor TTPs.
• Serve as a POC in incident response activities such as host triage and retrieval, malware analysis, remote system analysis, and remediation efforts.
• Create the necessary interpersonal networks among information security and line-of-business staff, compliance, audit, physical security, legal, and HR to ensure alignment.
• Begin to develop and maintain external networks consisting of industry peers, ecosystem partners, vendors and other relevant parties to address common trends, findings, threats, and cybersecurity risks.
• Act as technical resource for internal business teams and the IT department to plan, implement and support of new and existing technologies. Serve as an expert in technical field of knowledge.
• Participate in IT and security related projects.
• Assist the enterprise architecture and engagement teams to ensure that information security requirements are built into architectures and new technology projects.
• Maintain working knowledge of Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard compliance by keeping apprised of changes to the standard, evaluating new systems for impact and supporting annual PCI audit.
• Support audit and assessment process for IT including annual PCI audit, IT general controls review and any other audits or assessments of security and general IT controls.
• Support forensic investigations and data acquisition supporting legal holds.
• Assist in incident identification, assessment, quantification, reporting, communication, and mitigation.
• Monitor for external threats, assessing risk to the environment and driving proactive risk mitigation and response activities.
• Report common and repeated problems (trend analysis) to SOC Team lead and propose process and technical improvements.

Basic Requirements:
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a combination of incident response, information security and IT.
• Understanding of relevant legal and regulatory requirements, such as: Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.
• Degree in technology-related field preferred, or equivalent work- or education-related experience.
• Professional security management certification is desirable, such as Certified Forensic Investigator (CFI), Certified Forensic Examiner (CFE), Certified Hacking Forensic Investigation (CHFI), GFCA Certified Forensic Analyst (GIAC) or other similar credentials.
• Foundational knowledge of incident response standards such as NIST 80-61, Computer Security Incident Handling Guide and ISO/IEC 27035:2016, information security incident management
• Foundational knowledge of information security concepts and technologies such as: networking, network segmentation, vulnerability scanners, firewalls, IPS\IDS, network analyzers, data loss prevention, security event management, encryption technologies, proxies, cloud services, mobile devices, etc.