Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst III - Network
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Responsibilities
- Conduct threat investigations in Verizon's most complex and critical network environments.
- Analyze log data to detect active threats within the network using knowledge of the current threat landscape, threat actor techniques, and Verizon's network.
- Perform threat research to proactively identify potential threat vectors and work with network and security teams to improve prevention and detection methods.
- Leverage Verizon's network telemetry to find indicators of compromise.
- Develop expertise on the Verizon threat landscape using threat intelligence, network telemetry, and operational metrics to clearly communicate the threat landscape.
- Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams across network organization to iteratively improve security controls and detection capabilities.
- Conduct time-sensitive analysis during cyber investigations, including active threat investigation and forensic analysis.
- Analyze malicious code, packet capture files, and forensic artifacts.
- Identify gaps in logging capabilities and develop and propose strategies to fill gaps.
- Identify and propose automated alerts for new and previously unknown threats.
- Collaborate with teams across the Cyber organization to mitigate risk by testing, deploying, and developing investigative playbook.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
- Four or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through work experience and/or military experience.
- Experience with network device logs, netflow, and/or working with large datasets. Nice-to-haves
- A degree in engineering or computer science.
- Experience with security risk procedures, security patterns, authentication technologies and security attack pathologies.
- Good communication skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience with incident response, security operations, malware analysis, or threat hunting.
- Experience with application of data science concepts and techniques to enable advanced threat detection.
- Working knowledge of Splunk and Elastic Search.