Security Global Incident Response (GIR) Analyst

This is a 12-month contract position for a Security Global Incident Response (GIR) Analyst based in Tempe, Arizona. You will conduct security incident investigations, analyze artifacts to determine intrusion methods, and drive security improvements across multiple environments.

Responsibilities

• Conduct analysis of artifacts to determine methods of intrusion and best course of resolution while driving security improvement
• Investigate potential cybersecurity events across multiple environments using various tools and techniques
• Review internal logs and alerts to identify potential cybersecurity events; triage cases based on automated alert output and determine when to escalate to other teams
• Analyze security data from all systems in real time to spot and thwart potential threats, attacks, and other violations
• Analyze compromised systems and remediate to a clean state
• Perform breach indicator assessments to investigate network traffic for malicious activity
• Monitor external service provider activity to detect potential cybersecurity events
• Support security event monitoring, investigation, and overall incident response processes
• Support the development of security operations detections, playbooks, and automations to ensure threat detection, monitoring, response, and forensics activities align with best practices
• Develop and support information security policies, standards, and procedures
• Support inquiries from compliance teams such as IT risk management and internal and external auditors to ensure documentation is complete and processes are in compliance with information security policies
• Assist with internal or third-party employee investigations
• Create reports analyzing activities or trends both within and outside of the organization
• Assist in the production of various reports that identify and analyze relevant upcoming and ongoing threats to the enterprise
• Research evolving threats, techniques, tools, and vulnerabilities in support of information security efforts
• Lead junior analysts as needed and manage multiple activities with strong time management
• Stay current with information security program developments, industry frameworks, company changes, industry trends, and current security practices

Qualifications

• Required

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Cyber Security, Computer Science, or related discipline

• 5 or more years of experience working in Cybersecurity Operations or Information Security

• Strong incident response knowledge and experience

• Theoretical and practical knowledge with Mac OS, Linux, Windows operating systems and clouds

• Experience with security data collection, analysis and correlation

• Well-developed analytic, qualitative, and quantitative reasoning skills

• Demonstrated creative problem-solving abilities

• Understanding of offensive security to include common attack methods

• Understanding of how to pivot across multiple datasets to correlate artifacts for a single security event

• Diverse skill base in both product security and information security including organizational structure and administration practices, system development and maintenance procedures, system software and hardware security controls, access controls, computer operations, physical and environmental controls, and backup and recovery procedures

• Detailed knowledge and experience in security and regulatory frameworks (CRI, ISO 27001, NIST 800 series, FFIEC, SOC2, STAR, etc.)

• Preferred

• Relevant technical and industry certifications, such as CISSP, ISSMP, SANS, GIAC, GCIA, CISM, CEH, GCFA, GCFE, GCIH, or GSEC

• Experience in one or more security domains including Incident Response and Forensics, Security Governance and Oversight, Security Risk Management, Network Security, or Threat and Vulnerability Management

• Experience with information security risk management, including information security audits, reviews, and risk assessments