Cyber Security-Incident Response Analyst

The successful candidate will work in DuPont’s Advanced Defense & Threat Management team, participating with security incident response team efforts, optimizing team processes, conducting in-depth technical analysis of identified cyber threat activity, and conducting cyber hunting operations. The Cybersecurity Defense Specialist will monitor and deploy real time incident response capabilities, conduct volatile data acquisition, analyze forensic artifacts, conduct digital forensics and root cause analysis, develop recommendations for security enhancements, and help drive team strategy and capabilities. 
 
The Role & Responsibilities 
 
The Cybersecurity Defense Specialist will recognize potential, successful, and unsuccessful intrusion attempts and compromises thorough both escalated security event data and incident analysis reports. They will mentor and collaborate with other security analysts to augment threat detection and analysis, while fostering a culture of teamwork within the team. The Cybersecurity Defense Specialist will also collaborate with security specialists regarding the effective operationalization of key security capabilities to assist with implementation of counter-measures or mitigating controls. 
     
The Cybersecurity Defense Specialist will lead technical analysis and investigations, standardize and measure team processes to ensure effective delivery of team objectives. They will continue to develop and document improved analysis methodologies and procedures, supporting the maturation of the company’s incident response and advanced defense capabilities. 
    
Your Key Responsibilities 
 

• Monitor and deploy real time incident response capabilities 

• Analyze forensic artifacts and conduct digital forensics 

• Conduct cyber hunting operations with other team members 

• Strong knowledge of Information Security products and systems (EDR, IDPS, HIPS, SIEM, VA technology, etc…) 

• Strong process, documentation and metrics focus to optimize team performance 

• Knowledge and understanding of operating system internals, network security architecture, and protocol analysis 

• Creation of tools to automate analysis and incident response tasks 

• Willing to participate in on-call rotation for emergency cyber security situations 

• Active/eligible US Secret Clearance/US Citizenship required and ability to obtain DHS Suitability 

• Must maintain the following certifications (or achieve within 6 months) Baseline ISO/IEC 17024 Information Security Certification-CIS 

Qualifications:

Your qualification profile 
 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, such as Computer Engineering, Computer Forensics, Cyber Security, Information Systems, or equivalent experience. 

• Minimum five years of experience performing incident response and digital forensics 

• Strong understanding of incident response methodologies and technologies 

• Understanding of the life cycle of network threats, attacks, attack vectors, and methods of exploitation 

• Ability to analyze captured data to perform incident response and identify potential compromises 

• Ability to perform network and host based forensics and log analysis 

• Strong communication skills are necessary, including experience in 

• Authoring and editing technical reports and presentations 

• Mentoring and collaborating with technical analysts

• Strong analytical skills, creative thinking, and knowledgeable of security operations

• Experience in static and dynamic analysis of binaries

• Detailed understanding of signatures and regular expressions 

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