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Job type full-time
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Company description
Mindpoint group delivers industry-leading cybersecurity solutions, services, and productsWe are trusted cybersecurity advisors to key government and commercial decision-makers and support security operations for some of the most security-conscious organizations globally.
Our relationship with you is for the long run because your success is our successWe invest in your success through fantastic benefits (healthcare, generous pto, paid parental leave, and tuition reimbursement, to name a few).
Beyond just excellent pay and benefits, you’ll want to work here for reasons that can’t be written into an offer letter—the challenge, growth opportunities, and most important: the culture of a company that cares about you.
A position at mpg promises you
A diverse organization
A safe workplace with zero tolerance for discrimination or harassment of any kind
A balanced work lifeSeriously.
A stable, established, and growing business
A leadership team focused on your professional growth and development
Job description
Mindpoint group is seeking a senior-level soc professionalThe security operations center (soc) chief will:
Oversee the soc and coordinate all activities to include 24x7x365 operations
Manage technical delivery and continual process and procedure improvement to drive operational excellence
Develop workflows and integration points across all soc teams
Coordinate with third-party vendors and partners to ensure effective operational delivery of services and technologies
Supervise the development of detection use cases based on available log sources
Serve as technical expert and liaison to law enforcement personnel and explain incident details as needed
Coordinate with intelligence analysts to correlate threat assessment data.
Write and publish after-action reviews
Ensure that cybersecurity-enabled products or other compensating security control technologies reduce identified risk to an acceptable level
Perform security reviews and identify security gaps in security architecture resulting in recommendations for inclusion in the risk mitigation strategy
Plan and recommend modifications or adjustments based on exercise results or system environment
Notify designated managers, cyber incident responders, and cybersecurity service provider team members of suspected cyber incidents and articulate the event`s history, status, and potential impact for further action in accordance with the organization`s cyber incident response plan
Analyze and report organizational security posture trends
Analyze and report system security posture trends
Provides cybersecurity recommendations to leadership based on significant threats and vulnerabilities
Work with stakeholders to resolve computer security incidents and vulnerability compliance
Provide advice and input for disaster recovery, contingency, and continuity of operations plans
Develop content for cyber defense tools
Characterize and analyze network traffic to identify anomalous activity and potential threats to network resources
Coordinate with enterprise-wide cyber defense staff to validate network alerts
Document and escalate incidents (including event’s history, status, and potential impact for further action) that may cause ongoing and immediate impact to the environment
Perform cyber defense trend analysis and reporting
Perform event correlation using information gathered from a variety of sources within the enterprise to gain situational awareness and determine the effectiveness of an observed attack
Provide daily summary reports of network events and activity relevant to cyber defense practices
Receive and analyze network alerts from various sources within the enterprise and determine possible causes of such alerts
Provide timely detection, identification, and alerting of possible attacks/intrusions, anomalous activities, and misuse activities and distinguish these incidents and events from benign activities
Use cyber defense tools for continual monitoring and analysis of system activity to identify malicious activity
Analyze identified malicious activity to determine weaknesses exploited, exploitation methods, effects on system and information
Determine tactics, techniques, and procedures (ttps) for intrusion sets
Examine network topologies to understand data flows through the network
Recommend computing environment vulnerability corrections
Identify and analyze anomalies in network traffic using metadata
Conduct research, analysis, and correlation across a wide variety of all source data sets (indications and warnings)
Validate intrusion detection system (ids) alerts against network traffic using packet analysis tools
Isolate and remove malware
Identify applications and operating systems of a network device based on network traffic
Reconstruct a malicious attack or activity-based off-network traffic
Identify network mapping and operating system (os) fingerprinting activities
Assist in the construction of signatures which can be implemented on cyber defense network tools in response to new or observed threats within the network environment or enclave
Assess adequate access controls based on principles of least privilege and need-to-know
Monitor external data sources (e.g., cyber defense vendor sites, computer emergency response teams, security focus) to maintain currency of cyber defense threat condition and determine which security issues may have an impact on the enterprise
Assess and monitor cybersecurity related to system implementation and testing practices
Additional responsibilities may include:
Coordinate and provide expert technical support to enterprise-wide cyber defense technicians to resolve cyber defense incidents
Correlate incident data to identify specific vulnerabilities and make recommendations that enable expeditious remediation
Perform analysis of log files from a variety of sources (e.g., individual host logs, network traffic logs, firewall logs, and intrusion detection system [ids] logs) to identify possible threats to network security
Perform cyber defense incident triage, to include determining scope, urgency, and potential impact, identifying the specific vulnerability, and making recommendations that enable expeditious remediation
Perform cyber defense trend analysis and reporting
Perform initial, forensically sound collection of images and inspect to discern possible mitigation/remediation on enterprise systems
Perform real-time cyber defense incident handling (e.g., forensic collections, intrusion correlation and tracking, threat analysis, and direct system remediation) tasks to support deployable incident response teams (irts)
Receive and analyze network alerts from various sources within the enterprise and determine possible causes of such alerts
Track and document cyber defense incidents from initial detection through final resolution
Write and publish cyber defense techniques, guidance, and reports on incident findings to appropriate constituencies
Employ approved defense-in-depth principles and practices (e.g., defense-in-multiple places, layered defenses, security robustness)
Collect intrusion artifacts (e.g., source code, malware, trojans) and use discovered data to enable mitigation of potential cyber defense incidents within the enterprise
Monitor external data sources (e.g., cyber defense vendor sites, computer emergency response teams, security focus) to maintain currency of cyber defense threat condition and determine which security issues may have an impact on the enterprise
Coordinate incident response functions
Qualifications
Active top secret clearance required
Master`s degree or phd preferred, experience may be considered in lieu of degree
7-10 years of experience in soc operations and incident response including soc management and an ir commander role
Excellent customer service skills and ability to plan and execute to meet core objectives
Ability to perform the soc chief activities to include project tracking schedules, risk registers, and risk and issue mitigation strategies for soc and incident response activities
Experience ensuring the timeliness and quality of deliverables so that all information and data are accurate and complete
Ability to lead information security gap analysis review
Ability to perform administrative functions such as reviewing performance and operations to ensure appropriate performance
Ability to ensure effective coordination, collaboration, and communication with federal personnel
Ability to serve as the primary incident commander for all cybersecurity incidents
Ability to work in a high-pressure environment with changing priorities
Understanding that all access to classified information will be within government controlled secure facilities
Additional information
All your information will be kept confidential according to eeo guidelines
Equal opportunity employer veterans/disabled
