Cyber Security Analyst Job at Cornerstone Defense in Mc Lean

Location: McLean, Virginia Type: Contract Job #3080 Title: Cyber Security Analyst Location: McLean, VA *Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply * Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation's toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don't look any further than Cornerstone Defense. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Provide strategic and tactical direction to cyber hunters and leadership based on trends and actionable intelligence related to threat capabilities Coordinate hunt activities between various internal and external hunt groups Construct and exploit threat intelligence to detect, respond, and defeat advanced persistent threats (APTs) Fully analyze network and host activity in successful and unsuccessful intrusions by advanced attackers Build fly-away kits utilizing an agile approach to identify the appropriate tools and technologies necessary to conduct hunt missions Conduct advanced threat hunt operations using known adversary tactics, techniques and procedures as well as indicators of attack in order to detect adversaries with persistent access to the enterprise Create and add custom signatures, to mitigate highly dynamic threats to the enterprise using the latest threat information obtained from multiple sources. Perform malware analysis on samples obtained during an investigation or hunt operation to create custom signatures Develop and produce reports on all activities and incidents to help maintain day to day status, develop and report on trends, and provide focus and situational awareness on all issues Piece together intrusion campaigns, threat actors, and nation-state organizations Manage, share, and receive intelligence on APT adversary groups Generate intelligence from their own data sources and share it accordingly Identify, extract, and leverage intelligence from APT intrusions Expand upon existing intelligence to build profiles of adversary groups Leverage intelligence to better defend against and respond to future intrusions Correlate data from intrusion detection and prevention systems with data from other sources such as firewall, web server, and DNS logs Notify the management team of significant changes in the security threat against the government networks in a timely manner and in writing via established reporting methods Coordinate with appropriate organizations within the intelligence community regarding possible security incidents. Conduct intra-office research to evaluate events as necessary, maintain the current list of coordination points of contact. Review assembled data with firewall administrators, engineering, system administrators and other appropriate groups to determine the risk of a given event Maintain knowledge of the current security threat level by monitoring related Internet postings, Intelligence reports, and other related documents as necessary Required Qualifications: 2+ years of experience in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Security Engineering or Network Engineering, including cyber security issues and operations, computer incident response, systems architecture, data management Experience with working nation state intrusion sets Experience with and expert level proficiency in one or more of the following disciplines: Windows and/or Linux operating systems Network forensics Expertise at enterprise scale: SysMon or EDR solutions for host-based Cyber Threat Hunting, or Netflow/pcap or NDR solutions for network-oriented Cyber Threat Hunting Malware analysis/reverse engineering Exploit development On-net pursuit/response Incident response, forensics, or threat hunting in AWS or Azure Knowledge of the following classes of enterprise cyber defense technologies: Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems Network Intrusion Detection System/Intrusion Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) Host Intrusion Detection System/Intrusion Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) Network and Host malware detection and prevention (NDR/EDR) Network and Host forensic applications Web/Email gateway security technologies Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) Ability to demonstrate effective interpersonal, organizational, writing, communications, and briefing skills Ability to use advanced level analytical and problem-solving skills to solve complex issues Ability to obtain a CISSP or CEH Certification within 6 months of start date DoD 8570 IAT Level III or CSSP-SPM within 6 months of start date Active/Current TS/SCI with polygraph clearance Preferred Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or other closely related Information Technology field of study