- Create detailed incident reports, timelines, and post-incident summaries; contribute to lessons-learned documentation and recommendations for remediation and preventative measures.
- Investigate user-reported phishing, malware infections, and potential policy violations; advise users and internal/external teams on containment and recovery actions.
- Recommend updates to SOC playbooks and workflows based on real-world INVESTIGATIONS, fine-tune detection rules. Alert thresholds, and correlation logic to reduce false positives and improve threat coverage.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure monitoring tools are properly configured and tuned. Integrate new threat intelligence feeds into workflows and proactively hunt for threats using up-to date tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)
- Serve as a customer-facing SME, "selling" the value of DIS services by demonstrating capabilities and resolving issues.
- Document processes, runbooks, and troubleshooting steps related to SOC operations.
- Coordinate with engineering, SOC, and agency staff as needed to meet goals.
- Other duties as needed.
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Required Skills (rank in order of Importance): - 2+ Years of Experience with Security Monitoring and Incident Response.
- 2+ Years of Experience with MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- 2+ Years of Experience with dashboard creation and reporting.
| Preferred Skills (rank in order of Importance): - Experience with the Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM/XDR platform.
- Knowledge of Linux, network administration and network design.
- Experience in administration of firewalls, VPN technology, Active Directory, Intrusion Detection/Prevention systems.
- Candidate is local to Columbia, SC or surrounding city in South Carolina
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Required Education/Certifications: - Associate's degree in an information technology or information security related field
- Four years of relevant work experience may be substituted in lieu of education
- Two years of experience in supporting large soc operations.
| Preferred Education/Certifications: - CISSP, CISA, CISO or equivalent advanced security certification.
- Additional relevant certifications (e.g., CEH, OSCP, GPEN).
- Vendor certifications related to information security.
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