Carmel, in, us, 46032 technology office senior threat analyst, north america (us or canada) -remote- sophos is a worldwide leader in next-generation cybersecurity, protecting more than 500,000 organizations and millions of consumers in more than 150 countries from today’s most advanced cyberthreatsPowered by threat intelligence, ai and machine learning from sophoslabs and sophosai, sophos delivers a broad portfolio of advanced products and services to secure users, networks and endpoints against ransomware, malware, exploits, phishing and the wide range of other cyberattacksSophos provides a single integrated cloud-based management console, sophos central – the centerpiece of an adaptive cybersecurity ecosystem that features a centralized data lake that leverages a rich set of open apis available to customers, partners, developers, and other cybersecurity vendorsSophos sells its products and services through reseller partners and managed service providers (msps) worldwideSophos is headquartered in oxford, u.kMore information is available at www.sophos.comJob purpose as a senior threat analyst on our managed threat response (mtr) team, you will provide best-in-class monitoring, detection, and response services to proactively defend customer environments before attacks prevailYou will work alongside and contribute to a team of cyber threat hunters, incident response analysts, engineers, and ethical hackers by using enterprise, log analysis and endpoint collection systems to facilitate investigations, identification, and neutralization of cyber threatsMain duties
Handle escalations from less experienced threat analysts - guide / advise on investigation handling
Onboard and train new threat analysts
Provide detection and response to security events and cyber-threats
Conduct security log management and monitoring
Maintain information security metrics
Create cases, track and follow up with clients through threat neutralization
Interact with clients via various mediums
Participate in security operations process improvement and creation
Collaborate and assist core security and threat response teams
Obtain metrics for reporting on threat trends, intelligence analysis and situational awareness
Actively research recent indicators or compromise/attack, exploits and vulnerabilities
Skills & experience essential:
Willingness to work outside of standard business hours including weekends and holidays – our mtr service is 24x7x365 -working with our team in hawaii, flexibility to work from wednesday to sundayFrom 2pm-11pm pacific or 11am to 8pm in hawaii (5pm-2am et) is required.
5+ years of experience working in a soc environment or computer security team in an it environment
Endpoint and network security experience required; ids, ips, edr, atp, malware defenses and monitoring experience
Experience with threat hunting
Experience administering and supporting windows os (both workstations and server) and one of the following: apple or linux-based operating systems (e.gXp, windows 7, 2003, 2008, os x)
Knowledge of common adversary tactics and techniques, e.g., obfuscation, persistence, defense evasion, etc.
Fundamental understanding of network traffic analysis including tcp/ip, routing, switching, protocols, etc.
Strong understanding of windows event log analysis
Working knowledge of incident response procedures
Excellent troubleshooting and analytical thinking skills
Must be able to thrive within a team environment as well as on an individual basis
Customer service-oriented with strong documentation and communication skills
Passion for all things information technology and information security
Natural curiosity and ability to learn new skills quickly
Ability to think outside the box
Innovative mindset and driven to contribute to a team providing a best-in-class cybersecurity service
Bachelors in information technology, computer science or a related field; or relevant commensurate work experience
Desired:
Knowledge of mitre att&ck framework
Experience with enterprise information security data management - siem experience
Experience with sql query construction
Experience with osquery programming and scripting skills - proficient knowledge of powershell
Advanced cyber security certifications
Equal opportunities sophos is committed to equality opportunity in all areas of its workAll qualified applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, marital status, race, religion, color, age, disability or sexual orientationIf you choose to explore this opportunity, and subsequently share your cv or other personal details with sophos, these details will be held by sophos for 12 months in accordance with our data protection policy which can be found here and used by our recruitment team to contact you regarding this or other relevant opportunities at sophosIf you would like sophos to delete or update your details at any time, please reply to this or other emails from sophos clearly stating your request, or follow the steps set out in the data protection policy describing your individual rightsIf you have any questions about sophos’ data protection practices, please contact dataprotection@sophos.com
At sophos, we want every organization to be protected by innovative, next-generation it security, even those who don`t have a huge it staffWe protect organizations of all sizes, all around the world by making enterprise-grade security that is simple to deploy, manage, and useIt is our passion, and something we are truly proud of.
