Cyber Defense Forensics Analyst

The opportunity

Cyber Triage and Forensics (CTF) Incident Analyst will work as a senior member of the technical team responsible for security incident response for EY. The candidate will work as an escalation point for suspect or confirmed security incidents.

Your key responsibilities

• Investigate, coordinate, bring to resolution, and report on security incidents as they are brought up or identified
• Forensically analyze end user systems and servers found to have possible indicators of compromise
• Analysis of artifacts collected during a security incident/forensic analysis
• Identify security incidents through ‘Hunting’ operations within a SIEM and other relevant tools
• Interface and connect with server owners, system custodians, and IT contacts to pursue security incident response activities, including: obtaining access to systems, digital artifact collection, and containment and/or remediation actions
• Provide consultation and assessment on perceived security threats
• Maintain, manage, improve and update security incident process and protocol documentation
• Regularly provide reporting and metrics on case work
• Resolution of security incidents by identifying root cause and solutions
• Analyze findings in investigative matters, and develop fact-based reports
• Be on-call to deliver global incident response

Skills and attributes for success

• Resolution of security incidents by identifying root cause and solutions
• Analyze findings in investigative matters, and develop fact-based reports
• Proven integrity and judgment within a professional environment
• Ability to appropriately balance work/personal priorities

To qualify for the role you must have

• Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related field
• 5+ years experience in incident response, computer forensics analysis and/or malware reverse engineering;
• Understanding of security threats, vulnerabilities, and incident response;
• Understanding of electronic investigation, forensic tools, and methodologies, including: log correlation and analysis, forensically handling electronic data, knowledge of the computer security investigative processes, malware identification and analysis;
• Be familiar with legalities surrounding electronic discovery and analysis;
• Experience with SIEM technologies (i.e. Splunk);
• Deep understanding of both Windows and Unix/Linux based operating systems;

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Hold or be willing to pursue related professional certifications such as GCFE, GCFA or GCIH
• Background in security incident response in Cloud-based environments, such as Azure
• Programming skills in PowerShell, Python and/or C/C++
• Understanding of the best security practices for network architecture and server configuration

What we look for

• Demonstrated integrity in a professional environment
• Ability to work independently
• Have a global mind-set for working with different cultures and backgrounds
• Knowledgeable in business industry standard security incident response process, procedures, and life cycle
• Excellent teaming skills
• Excellent social, communication, and writing skills