What are the responsibilities and job description for the Analyst, Cybersecurity position at US Renal Care?
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SUMMARY
As a member of the Information Security team, the Cybersecurity Analyst is responsible for protecting the company from intrusions, malware, threat actors, and other forms of cyber attacks. The cybersecurity analyst will be involved in supporting efforts to automate, integrate, and aggregate the data and systems needed to optimize and accelerate analysis.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties and tasks may be assigned.
- Researches emerging threats and vulnerabilities to aid in the identification of network incidents, and supports the creation of new architecture, policies, standards, and guidance to address them.
- Provides incident response support, including mitigating actions to contain activity and facilitating forensics analysis when necessary.
- Supports the creation of business continuity/disaster recovery plans, to include conducting disaster recovery tests, publishing test results, and making changes necessary to address deficiencies.
- Conducts network monitoring and intrusion detection analysis using various computer network defense (CND) tools, such as intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS), firewalls, host-based security system (HBSS), etc.
- Reviews alerts and data from sensors and documents formal, technical incident reports.
- Tests new computers, software, switch hardware and routers before implementation to ensure security.
- Conducts log-based and endpoint-based threat detection to detect and protect against threats coming from multiple sources.
- Deploys cloud-centric detection to detect threats related to cloud environments and services used by the organization.
- Correlates activity across assets (endpoint, network, apps) and environments (on-premises, cloud) to identify patterns of anomalous activity.
- Reviews alerts and data from sensors and documents formal, technical incident reports.
- Works with threat intelligence and/or threat-hunting teams.
- Researches emerging threats and vulnerabilities to aid in the identification of incidents.
- Actively promotes GUEST customer service standards; develops effective relationships at all levels of the organization.
- Participates in team concepts and promote a team effort; performs duties in accordance with company policies and procedures.
- Regular and reliable attendance is required for the job.
Qualifications/Requirements:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
Requirements include:
- Bachelor's degree preferred; degree in computer science, engineering, information systems or another related discipline strongly preferred.
- Five (5) plus years of work experience in information security, especially in a network security analyst role.
- Desired, but not required: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
- Technical expertise in analyzing threat event data, evaluating malicious activity, documenting unusual files and data, and identifying tactics, techniques and procedures used by attackers.
- Familiarity with business needs and commitment to delivering high-quality, prompt and efficient service to the business.
- Strong decision-making capabilities, with a proven ability to weigh the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and identify the most appropriate one.
- An understanding of organizational mission, values, and goals and consistent application of this knowledge.
- Strong problem-solving and trouble-shooting skills.
- Self-motivated and possessing of a high sense of urgency and personal integrity.
