Principal Cyber Incident Analyst

16 May 2024

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As a Principal Incident & Threat Analyst with DFIR, you will respond to escalated incidents from the Security Operations Center as part of a 24/7/365 coverage team. Principal Incident & Threat Analysts collaborate with various internal and external partners to coordinate the incident response process including analysis, containment, remediation, and documenting lessons learned. You'll perform meaningful triage and containment activity to ensure the integrity of the company's information assets.

Responsibilities
  • Incident lead for all analysis and response functions during high impact cyber events. Conducts malware analysis to identify indicators of compromise, determine scope, and assess impact. Translate technical details pertaining to threats and incidents into consumable elements for non-technical groups
  • Develops mitigation and countermeasure strategies based on knowledge of attack tactics and techniques
  • Performs forensic data acquisition and analysis in order to determine incident root cause
  • Develops innovative solutions which enable rapid analysis and response to security incidents at the enterprise scale
  • Builds and maintains effective relationships with peers and internal business partners
  • Delivers presentations and executive briefings regarding relevant security incidents and findings to senior management
  • Assist in the design and development of security solutions and processes consistent with Cyber Incident and Threat Management program goals. Provides program subject matter expertise to influence Cyber-led security optimization initiatives. Collects and documents, and implements solutions to remediate identified lessons learned
  • Enriches team value by creating training and knowledge sharing opportunities

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here's what we need from you:
  • Bachelors - Computer Science, Information Security or related
  • 6+ Years - Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, Data Analytics or related
  • In lieu of a degree 8+ Years - Information Security, Computer Science, Data Analytics or related
  • Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of proficient on the Dreyfus cybersecurity scale
Preferred Qualifications

If we had our say, we'd also look for:
  • GIAC
    • Overall focus on Security courses, specifically Incident Response and Forensics
  • Incident Response and/or Forensic Analysis Experience
  • Working knowledge of common incident response frameworks

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview

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The same way we treat our employees is how we treat all applicants - with respect. Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer (EEO is the law) . We thrive on diversity & inclusion. You will be treated fairly throughout our recruiting process and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status in consideration for a career at Discover.

  • ID: #40980742
  • State: Illinois Riverwoods 60015 Riverwoods USA
  • City: Riverwoods
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2022-05-16
  • Deadline: 2022-07-01
  • Category: Security