Senior Cybersecurity Analyst

M9 Solutions is seeking a

• Support operation centers on a government contract.
• Focus on making timely decisions to provide secure access to enterprise information throughout their operating environment.
• Monitor systems and networks for unauthorized infiltration, modification, destruction, exfiltration, or disclosure.
• Analyze the volume of logs, network data, output from firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and enterprise anti-virus systems to support investigations for information systems security violations and incidents.
• Conduct cyber threat intelligence analysis and develop correlation techniques.
• Correlate actionable cybersecurity events and participate in the coordination of resources during incident response efforts.
• Report and track incident findings and resolutions to customers that include trends, responses, and mitigation actions.
• Research and report on network threats, attacks, attack vectors, and methods of exploitation with a comprehension of cyber threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures.
• Assess, plan, and enact measures including refinements to cybersecurity architecture, and tools configurations.
• Detect signatures to help protect customers from security breaches and attacks on its computer networks and systems.
• Analyze and recommend resolutions of cybersecurity problems with a comprehension of cybersecurity products and services, limitations, and cybersecurity principles.
• Perform cyber risk analysis and assessment.
• Provide daily supervision and direction to staff.

• Ability to pass a background investigation for a Top Secret/SCI clearance.
• 5+ years of experience as a cybersecurity analyst.
• Contain the following certifications: CASP+ CE, CCNA Security, CCNP Security, CCSP, CISA, CISSP (or Associate), CND, CySA+, GCED, GCIH, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, or SSCP.
• Contain the following certifications for CSSP Analyst: CCNA Cyber Ops, CCNA-Security, CEH, CFR, Cloud+, CySA+, GCIA, GCIH, GICSP, PenTest+, or SCYBER.
• Ability to triage alerts to prioritize response efforts and detect malicious actors on customer network.
• Ability to review open source and intelligence reports for threats and identify indicators of compromise (IOCs) and integrate them into sensors and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools.
• Ability to understand complex technical reports on analytic findings, and to identify adversary and friendly tools, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
• Understanding of TCP/IP, common networking ports and protocols, traffic flow, system administration, OSI model, defense-in-depth, and common security elements.
• Understanding of Anti-Virus, HIPS/HBSS, IDS/IPS, Full Packet Capture, Network Forensics, and complex technical reports on analytic findings.
• Understanding of malware analysis concepts and methods.
• Understanding of Unix/Linux as well as scripting and programming.

• Max Salary: $114,000/year
  • Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.