Job title: Senior Cybersecurity Researcher
Company: Fortra
Job description: This role will contribute to analytical content based upon multiple types of cyber threat research. As a Sr. Cybersecurity Researcher, you will join a world-class threat research team focused on enterprise cybersecurity; particularly offensive cyber techniques, business email compromise (BEC), malware defense and Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) command and control infrastructure (C&C).WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Design and implement new features and functionality
- Work with the Product Managers to outline features for the product roadmaps
- Work with different teams and products to understand requirements and design solutions
- Identify and evaluate new technologies for implementation
- Consult with end user to prototype, refine, test, and debug programs to meet needs
- Work within Research & Development to improve processes and best practices
- Innovate process solutions
- Create or align best practices
- Monitoring for and sometimes enforcement of standards
- Serve as a technical expert on threat intelligence projects
- Participate in full project life cycle including requirements analysis and design
- Write technical specifications based on conceptual design and stated business requirements
- Analyze project code to find causes of errors and revise programs as needed
- Work without supervision on highly complex projects.
- Actively participate or sometimes take the lead in Agile ceremonies
- Actively research various types of cyber-attacks using active defense techniques, data analysis, and open-source intelligence gathering
- Create analytical products in the form of intelligence alerts, threat reports, whitepapers, and blog posts covering the cyber threat landscape created by team members
- Analyze threat actor communications to understand new tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)
- Engage with threat actors using active defense techniques to collect intelligence
- Conduct data analysis to identify notable phishing and APT trends
- Communicate analytical findings to various audiences through in-person and virtual presentations
- Extensive latitude for independent judgment
- Assist and mentor less experienced peers
- Other duties as assigned
QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years in operational threat research or intelligence analysis
- Proven previous experience in the Cybersecurity Researcher III role
- Ability to digest raw intelligence and produce well-written analytical products
- Understanding of social engineering techniques and phishing threats.
- Knowledge of various types of cyber threats, threat groups, attack vectors, attacker tactics, and countermeasures.
- Good communication skills both verbal and written
- Strong analytical reasoning, problem solving, and decision-making skills
- Ability to work independently and effectively as part of a team
- Outstanding data analysis skills and experience with data analysis tools.
- Assist as a project leader or as a subject matter expert.
- Working knowledge of the Agile Project development methodology and be able to implement those methodologies in active projects
- Proven experience and knowledge of the relevant programming language requirements for this role and the ability to share that knowledge with team members
- Experience in the intelligence community or cybersecurity product development
- Coding experience – either in an educational or professional environment.
- Experience with databases and writing SQL queries
- Experience with APIs and/or basic scripting languages
- Experience analyzing email-based threats, particularly phishing & business email compromise attacks
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Expected salary:
Location: USA
Job date: Sat, 18 May 2024 22:34:32 GMT
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