Analyst, Cyber Security Job Description
Analyst, cyber security
provides oversight and guidance for the Network Intrusion Detection Service and the Host Intrusion Detection Service and other similar emerging technologies.
Analyst, Cyber Security Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Securing Networks and Operating Systems (Cisco, Windows, Linux) to Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) standards
Review Information Assurance Vulnerability Alerts (IAVA) for applicability and impact to the range networks
Respond to research requests from EA internal customers with timely and accurate assessments
Work closely with customer service, communications, quality assurance, the development team, and game analysts to support and resolve issues
Identify existing and new online security holes and work closely with security engineers and game analysts to identify potential solutions
Maintain documentation on security, exploitative behavior, and actions performed
Prepare weekly reports of security, game metrics, and actions to stakeholders
Define new data and metrics requirements for engineers and game analysts to implement to further enhance investigative efforts surrounding the general security of our product
Learn to have a deep understanding of game mechanics and all available game data
Manage, validate, and classify threat intelligence from a variety of sources
Analyst, Cyber Security Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Analyst, Cyber Security
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CISSP, GIAC, CEH, SANS, III, ISC, IAT, GCIA, ITIL, ISO
Education for Analyst, Cyber Security
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the analyst, cyber security job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Technical, Engineering, Information Technology, Education, Information Systems, Cyber Security, Technology, Information Security, Computer Engineering
Skills for Analyst, Cyber Security
Desired skills for analyst, cyber security include:
Networks
NIST CSF
OS’s
Security technologies
Servers
Two
Administering Active Directory
Authentication technologies
Network and Host Intrusion Detection Systems
Networking
Desired experience for analyst, cyber security includes:
Graduate degree in cyber security preferred
3 or more years of experience in the information security field, preferably in operational, delivery, and/or research-oriented roles
Familiarity with concepts and technologies related to Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Hadoop and data reduction technologies
Non-vendor specific certifications such as CISSP
Passion for playing games - especially Madden/NBA Live and Ultimate Team game mode is a plus
Education and professional work experience in databases and computer programming technologies is a plus
Analyst, Cyber Security Examples
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Our company is looking to fill the role of analyst, cyber security. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for analyst, cyber security
- Review and verify policies and procedures are developed in line with all applicable federal and LOC security standards and regulations
- Maintain, track, and communicate detailed project tasks
- Manage initial and reauthorization System Assessment and Authorization (SAA)/ Security Controls Assessment (SCA) task and milestone, task dependencies for low, moderate, and high security systems
- Ensure document deliverables are created, reviewed, and/or updated to include, by not limited to, Privacy Threshold Assessment (PTA)/ Privacy Impact Analysis (PIA), Business Impact Assessment (BIA), Contingency Plans (CP), Configuration Management Plan (CMP), Change Management Plans, Incident Response Plans (IRP), Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms), Security Assessment Reports (SAR), Memorandum of Understanding / Interconnection Security Agreement (ISA) and other documents as necessary
- Categorize and determine baseline IT security requirements in accordance with FIPS 199
- Identify and visually demonstrate system boundaries, select security controls, and ensure implemented controls are adequate for COTS or proprietary web applications
- Ensure security policies are developed, maintained and updated to meet IT security best business practices and standards, which may include ISO 27001, Federal Info Security Management Act (FISMA), and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53 - ITL and FIPS federal info processing standard
- Be able to review security scans, triage vulnerabilities, and be able to provide recommendations on mitigating security risks
- Review hosting, security, and audit compliance to current LOC policies, provide quality assurance (QA) reviews
- Assist testing teams as necessary with coordinating with developers and operations staff to provide evidence as necessary
Qualifications for analyst, cyber security
- Broad knowledge of IT security vendors and products
- Must maintain DoD 8570.1 certification requirements for IAT-II (Must meet certification within six months of date of hire)
- Requires documented training in Microsoft Windows Server or Cisco Administration
- Position requires ability to provide coverage outside normal working hours or shifts in daily hours
- Requires a current Secret Security Clearance and ability to pass an SSBI investigation
- Requires a valid state issued driver's license
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Our growing company is hiring for an analyst, cyber security. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for analyst, cyber security
- Designs, tests, and implements secure networks, security monitoring, tuning and management of IT security systems and applications, incident response
- Plans and Schedules time lines for the project and security initiatives
- Tracks and reports on project deliverables
- Creates and presents project reports on projects
- Maintain established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance programs and safety and compliance standards
- In the customer integration he act as a SME
- In the operations, he is the one who should challenge the customer when the requirements are not aligned on security best practices
- Conduct research on emerging products, services, protocols, and exploits in support of security enhancement and development efforts and emerging security alerts and issues
- Perform security improvements, upgrades, and/or purchases and assist in the management and maintenance of all security systems and their corresponding or associated software
- Work with GSOC (Global Security Operations Center) on ministry-wide issues involving security-related concerns, and liaison with Security Administrator on all correlated issues
Qualifications for analyst, cyber security
- Strong knowledge of security processes and technologies including IDS/ IPS, threat analysis, SIEM, vulnerability assessment
- Attack Analysis Techniques
- Business Applications involving N-Tier architecture
- Developing device drivers and use of emulators for systems analysis
- The individual in this position demonstrates investigative and analytical problem solving skills
- Intermediate knowledge of application scanning, penetration testing, and vulnerability management
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Our growing company is looking for an analyst, cyber security. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for analyst, cyber security
- Provide technical support within a cross functional team
- Participate in timely implementations of strategic solutions with a focus on using Agile methodology to iterate fast on design, build, test, and delivery of digital solutions for manufacturing
- Assist with the remediation of identified security events
- Support internal Human Resources (HR)/Legal/Ethics investigations
- Review threat data from multiple sources and develop recommendations for securing end points (tuning) or implementation of policy updates
- Communicate with customer technical staff and management
- Methodically gather, document, and present specific customer requirements
- Follow existing processes and procedures, and propose updates to such
- Conduct monitoring, analysis, and reporting for key financial information systems
- Provide reporting under the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX)
Qualifications for analyst, cyber security
- Advanced knowledge of cyber security operations, engineering, and architecture
- Proficiency with network analysis techniques and the ability to use commonly used log collection, aggregation and analysis tools, specifically Splunk
- Proficiency with forensic techniques and the most commonly used forensic toolsets, specifically the full EnCase suite
- Proficiency with MS Office Applications, and familiarity with Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems
- Experience with Windows operating system functionality (file system structure, registry keys, scheduled tasks, processes, services, memory management, data storage)
- A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, CyberSecurity, Information Systems, engineering, or other related scientific or technical discipline and 2 years related experience
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of analyst, cyber security. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for analyst, cyber security
- Coordinate with both internal and external auditors to assist with and respond to audit findings
- Participate in creating and executing an Identity and Access Management strategy to address SRP's evolving needs
- Third level support for security incident handling, support escalations and develop remediation plan
- Reduce false positives by tuning of detection policies
- Quality assurance, review event handling and improving analyst workflows
- Close interaction with IT development around bugs and platform enhancements
- Liaise with the Threat Library team to enhance correlation use cases
- Support the incubation phase of new products and services
- Maintaining the currency of each program’s security documentation
- Entering documentation completed and submitted in eMASS for system changes
Qualifications for analyst, cyber security
- Needs to have an understanding of threat vectors exfiltration techniques
- Nexpose Rapid 7 Vulnerability Scanner
- Previous experience in troubleshooting day-to-day operational processes such as report generation, data verification, data correlation
- Follows existing processes and procedures, and propose updates to such
- Hands on experience configuring, deploying, and managing mission critical network appliances such as routers, firewalls, IDS/IPS, DPI
- Hands on system administraqtion experience with various operating systems including Windows, AIX, BSD, z/OS, RHEL, SUSE, HPUX, QNX
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for an analyst, cyber security. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for analyst, cyber security
- Acting as the Cyber Security contact for RBSI development and transformation
- Understanding and communicating the Cyber Security strategy, plans and ideas to the rest of team
- Building and continually updating a personal succession plan within Cyber Security, linking development opportunities to ensure the future success of the team as a whole
- Support identification and resolution of vulnerabilities
- Analyze data sets and support alert and response activities
- Provide data driven insights into improvement opportunities for security operations workflow design
- Interface with other security teams and assist with general IT security as required
- Perform root cause analysis of moderate to highly complex security issues
- Help stakeholders to determine the best course of action to remedy the problem
- Ensure the ongoing core objectives of the SOC are accomplished and measurable
Qualifications for analyst, cyber security
- Must have familiarity in IA requirement generation, IA architecture design, IA audit tools and IA compliance for mission systems
- Direct experience with Malware analysis techniques and methodologies.Working knowledge of the Linux Operating system (CentOS, Red Hat, Ubuntu).Scripting Skills
- Understanding of TCP/IP, ports, protocols, and system functions (file I/O, registry, file permissions)
- Experience performing Vulnerability Management in an enterprise environment
- Knowledge of security and network incident response procedures
- Experience in security policy development