What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cyber Security Specialist - Incident Response & Forensics position at InterSources Inc?
Title: Cyber Security Specialist - Incident Response & Forensics
Location: New York, NY 10004
Duration: 12 Months Contract
Description
The technical Incident Response & Forensics Specialist is a part of the IT Threat Intelligence group within the Cyber Security Operations Canter and will be expected to provide direct support to the 24/7 Cyber Security Monitoring group as needed. The responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Serving as a primary point of contact for Client CSOC & MSSP Cybersecurity Incident escalations
- Interfaces directly with vendors & third parties for notified/observed compromises
- Forensics on memory, disks, and logs
- Malware analysis (dynamic & static)
- Involvement in full incident response lifecycle
- Processes evidence in accordance with Chain of Custody
- Creates Incident reports to brief to executive management
- Provide recommendations to prevent similar incidents
- Assist the Threat Intelligence group in other functions including
- Threat Intelligence / Threat Hunting
- Threat Readiness
- Cyber Content Engineering & Automation
Skills:
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong experience with digital forensic tools
- Strong understanding and analysis of code such as PowerShell, PERL, Python
- Cybersecurity certifications (preferred)
- Experience with OT & PCI technologies (preferred)
Minimum requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Services, or IT Security related field –Or- A satisfactory equivalent with at least 3 years of IT-Security experience.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience Tiers 1 & 2 support for cyber security operation centre.
- Minimum of 3 years' experience with performing incident response functions & investigations
- Information Security – 6 years of experience