Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. COFENSE provides managed phishing threat triage and cybersecurity services. The Threat Analyst analyzes and processes customer-reported phishing threats, identifies malware and threat patterns, manages analysis tickets, and provides customers with intelligence, guidance, and mitigation details.
Responsibilities
- Monitor systems for customer reported emails
- Analyze phishing campaigns and related threats to identify patterns
- Gather intelligence information from analyzed malware for dissemination to customers
- Assess reported emails to determine if an email poses a threat or is benign
- Identify malicious nature of threats and provide details and guidance to the customer on how to mitigate the threat
- Initiate threat analysis tickets for email threats
- Maintain ownership of tickets opened for customers including updating, communicating and documenting resolutions for customers
- Write rules, signatures, and descriptors for data sharing and automation technologies
- Leverage malware analysis platforms and technologies to identify malware infrastructure and tactics as needed
- Assist in production of monthly customer reports
- Identify process improvements to add efficiency and effectiveness to our services
- Other duties as assigned
Skills
- Ability to apply critical thinking to threat investigations
- Ability to recognize the need for prompt escalation of malware review
- Working knowledge of networking, operating systems, email Infrastructures, anti-virus programs, and advanced threat detection systems
- Skilled with common end-user applications, web browsers, and productivity applications such as MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint that are commonly targeted by malware
- Flexibility to work evening hour shifts as the job necessitates
- Demonstrate the ability to apply critical thinking to threat investigations
- Strong verbal and written communication and organizational skills
- Strong critical thinking and operational judgment skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment
- Basic understanding of email protocols, headers, and formats
- Ability to learn new techniques for conducting malware analysis
- Ability to learn and quickly implement tradecraft standards
- Ability to exercise independent judgment and creative problem-solving techniques
- 1+ years of IT security experience or security education
- Demonstrated experience to perform phishing and malware analysis
- CEH, GCIA, Security+, MCSA/MCSE, VCP, CCNA/CCNE, Network+, A+, CCSP, AWS Architect, etc
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or equivalent experience preferred
- Certification in one major technology provider or Malware Analysis and Incident Response preferred
- Regex and YARA rule creation nice to have
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
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