Cyber Security Analyst

SUMMARY : The Cybersecurity Analyst is responsible for monitoring, documenting, and supporting the cybersecurity posture of the organizations’s information technology systems. This role involves reviewing alerts, assisting in the maintenance of cybersecurity configurations, assessing weaknesses, vulnerabilities and escalating potential vulnerabilities or incidents to senior team members. The Cybersecurity Analyst also contributes to the documentation of cybersecurity events and helps ensure compliance with established cybersecurity policies and procedures. This role uses data collected from a variety of cyber defense tools (e.g., IDS alerts, firewalls, network traffic logs) to analyze events that occur within their environments for the purpose of mitigating threats.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Provide timely detection, identification, and alerting on potential attacks / intrusions, anomalous activities, and misuse activities and distinguish these incidents and events from benign activities
• Aid in the protection of the company's network and sensitive information using cyber defense tools for continual monitoring and analysis of systems to identify malicious activity including :
• Identifying cyber threat tactics and methods
• Identifying and correcting gaps in the company’s cybersecurity posture
• Testing information systems for vulnerabilities
• Documenting and escalating incidents
• Analyzing network alerts from various sources within the enterprise and determining possible causes of such alerts
• Identifying and analyzing anomalies in network traffic or log data
• Monitoring risks and implementing cybersecurity systems to prevent attacks or breaches
• Responding to urgent cybersecurity events and incidents
• Reviewing events and incidents to understand root causes
• Monitoring reputation for hostile content directed towards organizational or partner interests
• Recommend procedures and / or changes to procedures necessary for good cyber hygiene
• Improve the overall cybersecurity posture of the organization’s systems
• Determine the operational and safety impacts of cybersecurity lapses
• Prepare threat and target briefings and situational updates
• Monitor threat activities and prepare threat activity reports
• Manage and report on adversarial activities

EDUCATION AND REQUIRED EXPERIENCE :

SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS, AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS :

PHYSICAL DEMANDS :

Requires sufficient personal mobility and physical reflexes, to permit the employee to function in a general office environment and accomplish tasks and duties as outlined above.

WORK ENVIRONMENT :

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.