We are hiring Cyber Incident Response Analyst II, Herndon, VA, Contract Role

[Srikanth Palaparthy]

Cyber Incident Response Analyst II
Herndon, VA
Contract Role
Direct Client Requirement

Duties:
· Cyber Security Incident Response Analyst serves as point of contact for company stakeholders to report potential security incidents related to commodity malware, phishing, source code loss, personally identifiable information handling, copyright infringement, beaconing, denial of service, and additional types of incident response scenarios.
· Cross-functional as both cybersecurity analyst and insider threat analyst.
· Collect all pertinent case information and artifacts to support the identification, categorization, incident handling and triage actions in a time sensitive environment.
· Provide cyber security analysis with available intelligence through evaluation of threats, vulnerabilities, and impact.
· Responsible for the organization, tracking, reporting and response for security incidents during both on-shift and on-call coverages.
· Collaboration with Intake, Monitoring, and Managed Security Services for the response to incoming alerting.
· Support Low, Medium, and High severity incidents across multiple cross-functional teams leveraging various tools/applications.
· Analyze network traffic and various log data to determine the threat/impact against the network, recommend appropriate countermeasures and assess the damage.
· Provide effective communications to the team and department cyber-security personnel regarding cyber incidents and possible countermeasures.
· Remediate and apply lessons learned to security incidents through root cause analysis.
· Support the security operations center team with workflow documentation, recommendations, and improvements.

Job Description:
Required:
Active Department of Defense Top Secret (TS) Security Clearance

Required:
3 Years of Cyber Security Operations Experience Preferred
Security Operations Center (SOC) Experience Preferred
3 Years SIEM Experience


Must:
ACTIVE DOD SECRET CLEARANCE
THREAT ANALYSIS
CYBER SECURITY INCIDENT RESPONSE
SIEM
Desired Degree (A Plus): Bachelor or associate degree in a related technical field of study combined with sufficient relevant work experience Desired Certifications (A Plus): CISSP, SANS GCIH, Security+, CEH, CCSP, CISM, CISA CCSP GCIH GSEC Security+



Thanks & Regards,
Srikanth P
214.501.5122
srik...@standav.com