Senior Threat and Vulnerability Analyst
Cyber Security Information Technology Posted: 15-Jan-2025
Lake Mary, Florida, United States
Work you'll do
- Conduct internal and external asset, and web security vulnerabilities assessments (review designs, perform pen test, code review, and security checks) using scanning tools and notify the appropriate team to take necessary action.
- Conduct vulnerability assessments against a broad range of targets, including Windows, UNIX, Linux, routers, firewalls, switches, and web applications.
- Convert disparate asset and vulnerability information into actionable intelligence and make recommendations, utilize scripting techniques and vendor APIs to automate complex tasks and triage data.
- Work with developers and project managers to remediate and patch largescale, systemic vulnerabilities.
- Work jointly with Development Teams, Architects and Cyber Defense teams to clearly define the scope of the Vulnerability Management Service and the related rules of engagement.
- Develop reports and provide complex analysis using data that is hosted in multiple sources (e.g. spreadsheets, databases) and communicate clearly to management and other team members.
- Identify, research, and validate various known and unknown security vulnerabilities on server and client side at scale.
- Identify potential security exposures that may currently exist or may pose a potential future threat to the U.S. Firm’s applications; Ensure Cyber Defense management is notified when these exposures are identified, as well as a proposed solution for remediation.
- Collect and distribute indicators of compromise from malware analysis; review blogs, websites, and other news sources for actionable information and provides analysis.
- Conduct thorough research projects for various threat topics (malware, technologies, actors, etc.) and develop competing hypothesis and peer review; provide daily reporting of emerging threats.
- Conduct application functionality testing activities, including scheduling, resources, tool execution, and reporting.
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Qualifications
Employer will accept a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent degree, in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering (any), or a related field and 2 years of experience in the job offered or in an Information Security Analyst-related occupation.
Position requires experience in the following:
- Two years of experience in Information Security and Cybersecurity
- Two years of vulnerability Management experience including Automated vulnerability scanning, risk management and remediation assistance utilizing scanning tools such as Qualys, Nessus.
- Two years of experience in Software Development, automation of processes and procedures utilizing technologies such as software repository management GitHub and programming framework Visual Code.
- Two years of experience in scripting in programming languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Two years of experience in scripting concepts such as usage of security tool vendor APIs, HTTPS protocol and requests, Data Analytics.
- Two years of experience in threat Intelligence, investigating and understanding Vulnerabilities, hacking techniques, and hacking tools including CVE, CVSS, CISA, and MITRE Attack.
- Two years of experience in external Attack Surface management security tools such as RiskIQ or CyCognito.
- Functionality testing of security agents in virtualization environments such as VMWare, VirtualBox.
- IT infrastructure concepts such as Networking, Firewalls, Network Devices, Routing, Windows System Administration, Domain Controllers, Active Directory, and Group Policies.
- Penetration testing attack activities such as network probing/ scanning, DDOS, or malicious code activity, and possible abnormal activities, such as worms, Trojans, or viruses.
*Telecommuting/working from home within commutable distance permitted.
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