Principal Threat Researcher - Unit 42
Principal Threat Researcher - Unit 42
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Job Description
Your Career
As a member of the Unit 42 National Security Team (NATSEC) team you will be working closely with a globally distributed team of vulnerability researchers reverse engineers and threat intelligence analysts. You will be embedded into a customer environment where you will track advanced persistent threats in support of sensitive customer intelligence requirements.
Your Impact
Provide timely and actionable intelligence to support customer intelligence requirements.
Leverage global datasets (netflow malware passive DNS etc) to track malicious cyber actors their infrastructure and campaigns.
Collaborate with a global team of threat intelligence analysts to analyze and develop coverage for emerging threats.
Develop strategic threat assessments in support of customer needs.
Communicate with product engineering teams to improve detection efficacy in our ecosystem of products.
Qualifications :
Your Experience
Australian Top Secret Clearance (TS/PV) is preferred
Experience working with government agencies
Strong knowledge of nationstate threat actors particularly their tactics techniques procedures tooling and noteworthy attacks. Previous experience in Chinese threat actors is a plus.
Understanding of how nation states conduct access operations and their associated obfuscation techniques.
BS/MS in Computer Science Computer Engineering or 5 years of experience as a cleared cyber threat intelligence analyst
Working knowledge of BigQuery
Proficiency in Python C and/or C
Familiar with static and dynamic malware analysis and common industry tools.
Familiar with common tactics techniques and procedures used by cyber threat actors to conduct network reconnaissance and intrusions including knowledge of the MITRE ATT&CK Matrix for enterprise and individual techniques.
Experience leveraging netflow passive DNS IP registration malware telemetry and other data sets to form comprehensive threat assessments
Experience working with information security teams such as fusion centers security operations centers vulnerability threat management security incident management threat hunting and data analytics
Excellent time management often working under tight deadlines and multiple assignments
Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
Comfortable with creating and delivering presentations in a range of environments from industry conferences to customer briefings.
Strong English fluency and any other languages a plus.
Additional Information :
The Team
Unit 42 brings together our worldrenowned threat researchers with an elite team of security consultants to create an intelligencedriven response ready organization. The Unit 42 Threat Intelligence team provides threat research that enables security teams to understand adversary intent and attribution while enhancing protections offered by our products and services to stop advanced attacks. As threats escalate Unit 42 is available to advise customers on the latest risks assess their readiness and help them recover when the worst occurs.
Our Commitment
Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need please contact us at .
Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or other legally protected characteristics.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Remote
Company Industry
Department / Functional Area
Engineering
Key Skills
- Intelligence Community Experience
- Python
- Spss
- Microsoft Word
- R
- Regression Analysis
- Windows
- Stata
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Research Experience
- Data Modeling
- Writing Skills
