Insider Threat Investigator

Job Title: Insider Threat Investigator

Job Category: Banking

Industry: Banking - Financial Services

Job Location: Remote

Top 3/5 Skills: Insider threat investigations (7+ yrs), XSOAR (Cortex XSOAR / Demisto), Splunk/ CrowdStrike

Min & Max Pay Rate: $61.00/hr. to $65.00/hr.

Role Responsibilities: 

• Support the Client’s Enterprise Insider Threat program (EInT) as a senior analyst focused on insider threat and information security alerting, triage, escalation, and investigation.
• Perform end-to-end investigations of insider-driven and employee-related information security events.
• Triage, analyze, investigate, escalate, and document insider threat and information security alerts generated from enterprise security tools.
• Act as an escalation point for alerts originating from XSOAR, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and insider threat monitoring platforms.
• Assess alerts for risk severity, potential insider intent, data exposure, and regulatory impact.
• Conduct investigations involving:
• Employee-driven data loss or exfiltration
• Unauthorized access to systems or sensitive information
• Suspicious employee activity and potential insider threat events
• Correlate signals across endpoint, identity, network, email, browser, and collaboration data sources to establish investigative findings.
• Collect, analyze, and preserve digital evidence while maintaining appropriate chain-of-custody and evidence-handling standards.
• Prepare clear, audit-defensible investigative summaries documenting findings, conclusions, and recommended actions.
• Coordinate investigative outcomes with Insider Threat leadership, Human Resources, Legal, Compliance, and Corporate Investigations.
• Support continuous 24/7 Insider Threat operations, including structured shift handoffs and escalation of high-risk activity.
• Utilize Salesforce for engineering, development, testing, case management, and investigation-related activities as required.

Must Have Skills/Prior Experiences:

• 7+ years of experience in one or more of the following:
• Insider threat investigations
• Information security/cybersecurity investigations
• Financial crimes or corporate investigations
• Security operations or incident response
• Hands-on experience triaging and investigating security alerts using enterprise security platforms.

Strong working knowledge and investigative experience with:

• XSOAR
• Splunk
• CrowdStrike
• Anvilogic
• Demonstrated ability to correlate multi-source security telemetry and convert findings into actionable investigative conclusions.
• Experience working in a high-tempo investigative or security environment.
• Experience conducting end-to-end investigations, including alert triage, evidence collection, analysis, escalation, documentation, and case disposition.
• Understanding of appropriate evidence preservation, chain of custody, data integrity, access controls, retention, and legal-hold requirements.
• Relevant industry certifications in cybersecurity, investigations, or interviewing techniques.

Plus/Nice to Have Skills/Prior Experiences: 

• College degree or equivalent education, training, or work-related experience.
• Banking or financial services experience, particularly experience involving regulatory or audit requirements.
• Experience working directly with Human Resources, Legal, Compliance, or Financial Crimes teams.
• Experience with insider threat, UEBA, or advanced security analytics platforms.
• Experience investigating potential data exfiltration/data loss across endpoints, browsers, cloud storage, email, and collaboration platforms.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale Insider Threat or Data Loss Prevention programs.
• Experience with Salesforce in a security, case-management, engineering, or development environment.