Digital Forensics Analyst- HYBRID
Crest Security Assurance · Alexandria, VA · 1 wk ago
On-siteInformation TechnologyFull-time
About the role
Digital Forensics Analyst (US Citizenship Required) conducts advanced digital forensic investigations, malware analysis, and forensic evidence collection across enterprise networks, endpoints, and cloud environments. Supports cybersecurity incident response, insider threat investigations, and threat hunting by identifying malicious activity, reconstructing attack timelines, and determining the scope and impact of security incidents. Hybrid role based in Alexandria, VA; initial 30 days onsite, followed by 2–3 days onsite per week.
Responsibilities
- Conduct digital forensic investigations involving compromised endpoints, servers, networks, cloud services, and enterprise applications to identify evidence of malicious or unauthorized activity.
- Acquire, preserve, and analyze digital evidence, including disk images, memory captures, system artifacts, event logs, network traffic, and cloud audit records.
- Utilize forensic tools such as EnCase, FTK, Autopsy, Volatility, Magnet AXIOM, and other approved platforms to conduct evidence collection, examination, and analysis.
- Perform malware analysis, including static and dynamic analysis, behavioral examination, sandbox execution, and reverse engineering to identify malicious functionality and indicators of compromise (IOCs).
- Investigate r