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Salary $100,000 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:
Advanced practices’ mission is to know more about adversaries than anyone else and to make the knowledge actionable for mandiantOur threat analysts work at the intersection of incident response, security operations, detection engineering, and cyber threat intelligence.
You are an independent critical thinker skilled in using data and information derived from multiple disciplines to solve analytical problemsYour past experience qualifies you as an intrusion decisionmaker capable of guiding multiple teams’ efforts in a unified event.
You will track all impactful adversaries by collecting, modeling, and analyzing data originating from thousands of investigations conducted by mandiant, third party telemetry, as well as novel sources and methods.
You are encouraged to contribute back to the security community by sharing your expertise through whitepapers, tool releases, and conference talks.
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 more 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:
Be the expert in tracking and assessing impactful adversaries
Analyze technical data to extrapolate adversary methodologies and identifiable characteristics
Fully exploit all available leads identified through investigations to provide a comprehensive understanding of the adversary’s activity in a holistic sense while combining different datasets for maximum exposure
Assess, cluster, & attribute seemingly disparate activity into related intrusions & campaigns
Communicate analytical findings through curating/modeling data and providing customer-facing attribution work
Deconflict complicated analytical efforts using organic data
Work with multiple expert teams simultaneously in stressful environments and timeframes
Qualifications
Minimum requirements:
2 + years of experience in an analytical role of either network forensics, threat analyst, or security consultant/engineer
2 + years of experience in investigative or incident response environments
2 + years of experience with direct delivery of technical information to clients or public in reports or presentations
Familiar with at least five of the following areas (and a willingness to learn the rest):
Graph theory
Encoding and decoding
Windows desk and memory forensics
Static and dynamic binary analysis
Network flow and traffic analysis
Email analysis
Log analysis
Security operations processes
Incident response processes
Enterprise security controls
Intrusion operations
Commercial threat intelligence data sources (internet scan data, passive dns, domain registrant information, malware repositories)
Additional 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: $100,000Final 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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