Saxon Global
Security Operations Center Analyst
Saxon Global, Texas City, Texas, us, 77592
First layer of defense - responsible for quick detection and incident response using various security monitoring and automation tools Work with NOC, IT and various business units to triage and remediate detected security incidents and alerts Conduct in-depth investigation of alerts. Perform analysis and correlation of network traffic, OS and application-level events Signal and alert tuning (in collaboration with the Detection and Splunk teams). Research and analyze the latest attacker techniques observed in the real world and recommend automatic and manual remediation actions Create new and maintain existing security operation standards, procedures, playbooks Analyze security events/logs and report on threats and incidents across various platforms and environments. Escalate complex cases to the Detection team and the system owners. Assist with Threat Hunting activities during the active incidents Continuous tuning and improvement of the existing security signals, rules and alerts to improve detection and response time and reduce impact when an incident occurs QUALIFICATIONS: Experience performing security monitoring and incident response duties in a SOC environment Ability to quickly triage multiple security incidents and assign the right priority based on risk and confidence levels Good understanding of the common network security concepts including TCP/IP protocol stack, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, WAF, VPN Good understanding and real-life experience responding to the common types of attacks such as DDoS, credentials stuffing, phishing/spam, adware/malware, attacks against Windows/Active directory environments, attacks against public cloud infrastructure (AWS) Security automation experience using tools such as Phantom or Demisto (SOAR, runbooks) is