Mission Multiplier

Summary

We are seeking a Forensic Analyst to join our dynamic team in the US. In this role, you will play a critical part in enhancing our cybersecurity efforts by analyzing data breaches and conducting forensic investigations. Your expertise will contribute significantly to our mission of providing top-notch security solutions.
Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher
• 10+ years’ performing cyber threat hunting and forensics support for incident response.
• Certifications addressing identification of malicious system and user activity, incident response in an enterprise environment, timeline artifact analysis, timeline collection, timeline processing, volatile data collection, analysis of profiling of systems and devices, analysis of file and program activity, acquisition, preparation, and preservation of digital evidence, analysis of user communications, advanced IDS concepts, applications protocols, concepts of TCP/IP and the link layer, DNS, fragmentation, IDS fundamentals and initial deployment (e.g., snort, bro), IDS rules (e.g., snort, bro), IPv6, network architecture and event correlation, network traffic analysis and forensics, or packet engineering.
• 5+ years of experience in digital forensics and incident response, and threat hunt activities.
• Core Competencies in Computer Forensics, Computer Network Defense, Software Testing and Evaluation, System Administration, and Threat Analysis.
• All access to classified information will be within government-controlled secure facilities.
• Active Top Secret Security Clearance

Job Description:

• Identify threat tactics, methodologies, gaps, and shortfalls aligned with the MITRE ATT&CK Framework and the Azure Threat Research Matrix (ATRM).
• Perform Hypothesis-based or Intelligence-based Cyber Threat Hunts to identify threats and risks within environments.
• Use cloud-native techniques and methods to identify and create threat detections for automated response activities.
• Use Agile methodology to organize intelligence, hunts and project status.
• Be able to independently research intelligence reports to find actionable data for conducting intel or hypothesis-based hunts.
• Explore and correlate large data sets to uncover novel attack techniques, monitor and catalog changes in activity group tradecraft, and investigate alerts for enterprise customers.
• Conduct analysis of log files, evidence, and other information to determine the best methods for identifying the perpetrator(s) of a network intrusion.
• Confirm what is known about an intrusion and discover new information, if possible, after identifying intrusion via dynamic analysis.
• Create a forensically sound duplicate of the evidence (i.e., forensic image) that ensures the original evidence is not unintentionally modified, to use for data recovery and analysis processes.
• Provide a technical summary of findings in accordance with established reporting procedures.
• Ensure that chain of custody is followed for all digital media acquired in accordance with the Federal Rules of Evidence.
• Recognize and accurately report forensic artifacts indicative of a particular operating system.
• Extract data using data carving techniques (e.g., Forensic Tool Kit [FTK], Foremost).
• Collect and analyze intrusion artifacts (e.g., source code, malware, and system configuration) and use discovered data to enable mitigation of potential cyber defense incidents within the enterprise.

Additional Experience Preferred:

• Proficiency with at least Python, PowerShell, or bash.
• Proficiency in using query languages used in popular SIEM products (Splunk, Sentinel).
• Experience with producing finished intelligence content on threat actors and attacker techniques including written reports, presentations, and visuals covering attribution, threat detection and hunting guidance, and remediation recommendations.
• Experience conducting non-attributable research and conducting research using deep web.
• Preserve evidence integrity according to standard operating procedures or national standards.
• Ability to analyze memory dumps to extract information.
• Skill in identifying and extracting data of forensic interest in diverse media (i.e., media forensics).

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $110,000.00 - $115,000.00 per year

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• Cyber threat hunting/forensics support: 10 years (Required)

Security clearance:

• Top Secret (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Washington, DC 20230 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Washington, DC 20230: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person