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Salary $145,000 a year job type full-time
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Company description since 2004, mandiant has been a trusted partner to security-conscious organizationsEffective security is based on the right combination of expertise, intelligence, and adaptive technology, and the mandiant advantage saas platform scales decades of frontline experience and industry-leading threat intelligence to deliver a range of dynamic cyber defense solutionsMandiant’s approach helps organizations develop more effective and efficient cyber security programs and instills confidence in their readiness to defend against and respond to cyber threats.
Job description
The role:
Lay the foundation: research, model, and integrate threat data
Build the layers: search telemetry to find new intrusions, malware and tradecraft
Work the resolution: notify our clients and affected orgs while closing collection gaps
Make everyone better: push research findings from the team into blogs and other public formats when applicable
Advanced practices is finding net-new evil across all mandiant customers and are looking for tenacious researchers who love the thrill of the hunt to join our teamAs a security researcher, you will be part of the advanced practices team focused on reverse-engineering adversary tradecraft and operationalizing what we learn for the highest echelon of subversive threats.
The best candidate will be driven to discover new intrusion activity and find creative ways to distill the voluminous threat data from our weak signals down to new and interesting findings for our clientsWe encourage giving back to the security community and strongly support sharing of expertise.
About advanced practices:
Advanced practices was formed in 2015 to exclusively focus on the most difficult threats facing our clients and our company independent of product or business linesWe work with every other mandiant team to track, correlate, attribute, detect, and collect on our adversaries using advanced analysis and deep researchAdvanced practices codifies and makes actionable the knowledge from thousands of annual event responses, all available organic telemetry, and other novel sources and methodsAs an extension of this work, advanced practices acts as key practitioners driving mandiant’s larger development for technology, process, and thought leadership.
IlluminationAdvanced practices illuminates under-reported or uncorrelated intrusion activity to expose and amplify complex adversary activityWe search for the nearly imperceptible traces of attackers wherever we can find them and seek to surface their activity for action.
Front-line visibilityOur team of 40+ talented security research and threat analysis professionals bring centuries of experience investigating intrusions, analyzing malware, and dissecting digital artifacts to deliver front-line innovation for mandiant/.
Threat discoveryOur goal is simple: to know the most about adversaries and make this knowledge actionableAdvanced practices enables early discovery and analysis of adversary operations and their tradecraft so that our customers are protected.
It’s how that worksOur team studies the world’s most impactful intrusions from the mandiant frontlines to understand how apex attackers operateThe focus on technical evidence and how our adversaries operate powers the who our adversaries are and contributes to new how’s to keep the cycle in motion.
Surfacing the unseenWe look for unique features and common adversary methods across all intrusions and malware so we can develop resilient monitoring, detection, and discovery of attacker activityWe set proactive traps and develop threat signals to capture real-time and historic adversary activity from important, evasive, and emerging threatsAdditionally, we examine historical data for new patterns based on recent finds.
Responsibilities:
Hunt for emerging threat activity across all available mandiant telemetry: discover net-new malware families, intrusion activity, and suspicious events associated with advanced practices and notify our customers
Analyze technical threat data to extract ttps, malware techniques and adversary methods with low (or no) detections, and help close those gaps across mandiant
Drive detections and technology through threat expertise and knowledge
Provide threat context and integration support to multiple mandiant service lines
Provide threat research and context to global service delivery
Perform threat research and analysis during high-severity cyber-attacks impacting mandiant customers globally
Deconflict complicated analytical efforts using organic data
Work with multiple expert teams simultaneously in stressful environments and timeframes
Qualifications
Minimum requirements:
6 + years of experience in an analytical role of either network forensics, threat analyst, or security consultant/engineer
6 + years of experience in investigative or incident response environments
6 + years of experience with direct delivery of technical information to clients or public in reports or presentations
Technical experience in at least three of the following areas:
Detection engineering with experience in pattern-matching languages (openioc, yara, snort/suricata, or similar signature framework)
Windows disk and memory forensics
Network security monitoring (nsm), network traffic analysis, and log analysis
Unix or linux disk and memory forensics
Basic static and dynamic malware analysis
Applied knowledge in at least one scripting or development language (such as python)
Understanding of enterprise security controls in active directory / windows environments
Tracking threats in an intelligence function
Desired qualifications:
Proven analytical leadership skills with the ability to prioritize and execute
Ability to set and manage expectations with senior stakeholders and team members
Strong problem solving, troubleshooting, and analysis skills
Experience working in fast-paced development environments
Self-driven, proactive, hardworking, creative, team-player
Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to present to technical and non-technical audiences
Exceptional written communication skills
Additional information
At mandiant we are committed to our #oneteam approach combining diversity, collaboration, and excellenceAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.
Minimum salary: $145,000Final salary will be determined commensurately with cost of living, experience level, and/or any other legally permissible considerations.
Incentive compensation: eligibility for annual bonus subject to individual and company performance; eligibility for award of restricted stock units subject to eligibility requirements, approval from fireeye’s compensation committee, and vesting terms
Benefits: employer subsidized benefits include medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insuranceSubject to eligibility requirements, fireeye also offers the ability to participate in 401(k), flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, dependent care spending accounts, and employee stock purchase programFireeye also provides paid time off, flexible paid sick time, and paid holidays.
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