Senior Associate, Response Operations, Cyber Risk

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Krolls Cyber Risk team works on over 2000 cases a year including some of the most complex and highest profile matters in the world. With experts based around the world supported by ground-breaking technology we help protect our clients data people operations and reputation with innovative assessments investigations and intelligence. We are the only company in the world with the expertise and resources to deliver global end-to-end cyber risk management supporting organizations through every step of their journey toward cyber resilience.

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Day to Day RESPONSIBILITIES:

We are looking for bright motivated and inquisitive minds to join our Kroll Responder 24x7 monitoring and response team who are experienced in and passionate about modern cyber threat hunting and active response. Our Senior Associates use leading endpoint detection and response tools to rapidly identify investigate and respond to threats and threat actors impacting systems and networks around the globe every day.

• Perform ongoing threat hunting analysis containment and remediation of threats identified through advanced endpoint detection and response (EDR) endpoint prevention (EPP) SIEM and related security tools.
• Collect and review relevant forensic artifacts to identify root cause and understand nature of threats.
• Develop and communicate written and verbal threat reports associated with events to customers.
• Assist in ongoing research development and testing of enhanced threat detection and response tools techniques and indicators.
• Support incident engagement teams with active intrusion detection and response tasks.
• Conduct threat research forensic analysis and basic malware analysis of threats.
• Actively participate in related client meetings and teleconferences.
• Assist clients with questions regarding threat detections EDR tools deployment and maintenance.

Essential Traits

• Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science Cyber Security Computer Engineering or similar technical degree.
• Minimum 3 years experience in threat hunting detection and response or equivalent experience.
• Ability to respond rapidly multi-task and communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with customers team members and engagement managers.
• Highly motivated tenacious assertive problem solver with a desire to analyze root cause and reach effective conclusions to active intrusions and incidents on an ongoing basis both individually and as part of larger response teams.
• Solid understanding of Windows operating system fundamentals architecture (File System registry processes binaries DLLs etc.) and administration concepts. Similar understanding of MacOS and/or Linux a plus.
• Prior experience actively using endpoint threat detection and response (EDR) products to investigate threats such as Sentinel One Crowdstrike Falcon VMWare Carbon Black Windows Defender ATP Cortex XDR Trend Micro XDR or others.
• Understanding of common threat actor techniques malware behavior and persistence mechanisms.
• Working knowledge of various scripting languages and tools (PowerShell Python VB Yara)
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP and related networking concepts.
• Prior experience using Splunk or other SIEM solutions intrusion detection solutions or related security products.
• Relevant cyber security certifications including CISSP GCIA GCIH GCFA GMON or GREM a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Availability for occasional after-hours weekends and/or holiday work in response to active incidents.

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