Cyber Security Analyst

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No sponsorship available.

Must live within a commutable distance of Long Island, NY to be considered.

Cyber Security Analyst

We are looking for a team player who is able to operate at the tactical level, identify and document the threat landscape of our most sensitive systems, enhance our approach to managing the costs of maintaining cyber-relevant logs, and support strategic program enhancements. Our employees are empowered to drive projects which increase the effectiveness and capability of our end-to-end alerting and monitoring process and have opportunities to brief the impact of their work to senior leadership. A successful candidate will work effectively both individually and within a team, apply critical thinking to create solutions in areas of high ambiguity and deliver those solutions by driving priorities and building relationships.

Qualifications:

• Knowledge of cyber security tools and protocols
• Cybersecurity: 2+ years (Preferred)
• Information security: 2+ years (Preferred)
• Strong IT skills and knowledge including hardware, software and networks
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of IT systems
• A forensic approach to challenges is required
• A deep understanding of how hackers work and ability to keep up with the fast pace of change in the criminal cyber-underworld
• Ability to seek out vulnerabilities in IT infrastructures
• Bachelor's Degree
• 2+ years' experience in threat modeling/use case development, information security standards, and data flow within a medium to large information environment

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the Enterprise cyber security logging and alerting strategy
• Develop and maintain logging and alerting processes, procedures, and controls
• Drive prioritization and management of log ingestion into a SIEM environment
• Facilitate discussions which support alert use case development, log ingestion prioritization, and timely risk-based response to investigations and incidents
• Perform cyber security monitoring gap analysis
• Identify monitoring risks, challenges, and opportunities, and escalate to leadership in a timely manner, as necessary
• Maintain awareness of, and design processes in accordance with, relevant regulatory and governance requirements
• Drive enterprise alignment with logging and alerting requirements