Sr. Insider Threat Analyst

The Sr. Insider Threat Analyst is a member of the Insider Threat Team with primary responsibility for mitigating, identifying, and responding to insider threat security events. The Insider Threat team is responsible for preventing, detecting, and responding to data exfiltration, workplace violence, systems sabotage, misuse of corporate assets, and other threats. Lead and conduct complex and technical data analysis; develop and tune rules, policies, and alerts for DLP and UEBA applications; develop strategies to deter, detect, and respond to insider threats; and collaborate with security operation centers, digital forensics, and physical security teams.

 Primary Duties and Accountabilities 

• Identify and Respond to Insider Threat Security Events

• Respond, analyze, and triage alerts from DLP, UEBA and other monitoring tools

• Characterize and analyze information from enterprise cyber security tools identify anomalous activity and potential threats

• Coordinate with enterprise-wide cyber defense staff to validate network alerts

•  Analyze security incidents for trends and patterns to uncover anomalies, identify gaps, and propose risk mitigation solutions

• Manage incident response and investigative leads, including notification and escalation. Coordinate with physical security, legal, and HR teams as required.

• Develop Insider Threat Use Cases and Tune DLP and UEBA rules and policies

• Develop distinct insider threat use cases; identify tools, policies, and rules to monitor for the use case; tune policies and rules to meet use case requirements

• Based on analysis of alerts, modify rules and policies to increase accuracy and reduce false positives

• Identify and integrate new data sources to identify insider threat activity

• Perform security reviews, cyber defense trend analysis, and open-source research.

• Identify vulnerabilities in security architecture or controls; and recommended changes to resolve or mitigate risk of these vulnerabilities

• Analyze insider events to identify patterns and develop mitigation strategies

• Conduct open-source research about industry trends and developments in protecting company assets and countering Insider Threats

• Prepare timely written reports which summarize significant industry insider events to draw lessons which can be incorporated into the Insider Threat Program

• Assist in the development of policy, processes, procedures an associated metrics

• Produce and deliver insider threat awareness briefings, debriefings, and training activities.

Minimum Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Cybersecurity, or related 4-year technical degree with 5 + years of experience in IT or cybersecurity, or equivalent combination of education and work experience

• Skill in collecting data from a variety of cyber defense resources and ability to interpret information collected to recognize threats

• Knowledge of DLP, UEBA, and logging applications; and skill tuning policies within these tools

• Knowledge of incident response and handling methodologies.

• Knowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies.  

• Knowledge of host/network access control mechanisms

• Knowledge of operating systems

• Knowledge of scripting languages

• Knowledge of cyber-attack stages and techniques used by malicious insiders

• Knowledge of security controls frameworks and ability to assess organizational security posture against these frameworks

• Skill in conducting trend analysis