Security Incident Analyst

Security Incident Analyst

Security Incident Analyst required for a 6 month assignment with a leading Mobile brand based in Berkshire.

We are looking for someone to play a pivotal role in helping to continue to develop and shape my clients operational security against a backdrop of significant change.

The successful candidate will be joining the Security team in the fastest growing UK mobile operator; an expanding team with a clear vision to deliver a safe experience.

The roles for the CERT would involve the following, some of the points are optional depending on business appetite:

• Monitor a wide range of tooling to establish a baseline and take appropriate action on any deviation from it
• Provide tactical level intelligence analysis of cyber threats and threat actors in support of cyber defence and network operations
• Deliver recommendations and actions to improve the detection, escalation, containment and resolution of incidents
• Develop centralised logging solutions
• Enhance existing incident response methods, tools and processes
• Perform real-time incident handling, including forensics collections and intrusion correlations and tracking
• Collect, assess, and catalogue threat indicators
• Maintain knowledge of the current security threat level by monitoring related Internet postings, intelligence reports, and related sources
• Available for extended hours in the event of a major incident
• Perform forensic investigations
• Perform malware analysis and reverse engineering
• Perform testing with open source penetration testing tools
• Perform 'spot-checks' on systems by reviewing system / application logs

Key Responsibilities

Day to Day

• Continuous monitoring of security tooling
• Perform regular and ad-hoc Vulnerability Assessments.
• Reporting on vulnerabilities to the PVG via the alerts system.
• 'Spot checks' on logs on various systems.
• Building understanding and documenting logging for systems.
• Developing centralised logging, reporting and intelligence platforms
• Collect external intelligence information from wide ranging sources, translated into applicable format and disseminated accordingly
• 'Light touch' penetration testing with open source tooling (e.g. Metasploit)
• Reporting on security events and effectiveness of tooling
• Working with Internal Communications where needed to notify employees of new risks
• Defining and setting a Cyber Threat Level to be communicated to staff
• Continuous improvement to processes and procedures

Incident Related Activities

• Incidents would be reviewed alongside Incident Management to determine if the issue affects confidentiality or integrity of internal systems.

If the issue is defined as a Security Incident, the CERT resource would take command and:

• Prioritise the incident according to a pre-defined security incident priority matrix
• Make an assessment as to whether external stakeholders, like external forensic investigators need to be involved
• Direct and co-ordinate all operations teams to contain and/or mitigate the issue
• Ensure that if data needs collection it is completed in a forensically sound manner
• Communicate with relevant stakeholders including Internal and Corporate Communications

Current Tooling

• Lancope
• Cisco ISE
• Microsoft Security and Compliance Centre
• QRADAR
• Splunk
• Arbor DDOS Protection
• Akamai DDOS Protection
• MS SCCM
• McAfee ePO
• Cisco ACS
• Microsoft ATA
• Microsoft Information Rights Management

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Experience performing security event and incident detection and handling in an operational environment such as SOC, CSIRT, CERT, etc.
• Experience reviewing and analysing Security Events from various monitoring and logging sources
• Knowledge of, and experience with packet analysis
• Experience in web site and web application security assessment or penetration testing
• Previous experience working as a part of an IT Security team or in Incident Response
• An active knowledge of current trends in computer security, software/hardware vulnerabilities
• An active interest in current security research
• Ability to work as part of a CERT Team which may require rotational weekday/weekend on-call coverage
• Ability to work independently and with minimal supervision
• Ability to understand and implement technical vulnerability corrections
• Experience of malware analysis
• Scripting knowledge using BASH, Python, Perl, ruby
• Knowledge of multiple operating systems including Windows, Linux, Solaris
• Skills in Host and Network Forensics
• Robust networking knowledge including TCP/IP, MPLS, OSPF, BGP

Project People is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.