Security Analyst

20 Jun 2024

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We have an exciting opportunity for a talented Security Analyst to work with one of our direct clients in Clemson, SC. We love referrals! Please refer us to your friends, family, and colleagues for this opportunity. We also give referral bonuses if they get selected and perform well for our clients.

Job Details:

Job Title:
Security Analyst

Duration: Long-Term Contract

Location: Clemson, SC

Daily duties / Responsibilities:
  • Monitoring and Operations:
  • Perform real-time security monitoring, detection and response to security events and incidents within the Clemson University environment.
  • Conduct thorough investigations of security events generated by detection mechanisms such as SIEM, IDS/IPS, AV, etc.
  • Recognize successful intrusions and compromises through review and analysis of relevant event detail information.
  • Differentiate false positives from true intrusion attempts.
  • Launch and track investigations to resolution.
  • Alert users of intrusions or potential intrusions and compromises.
  • Sort events and escalate incidents after a thorough investigation.
  • Employees will be expected to respond to situations during non-normal university operating hours. Participation with 24/7 on-call rotational duties within the group will be expected.
  • Other duties and projects as assigned
  • Collaboration and Mentoring:
  • Provide tier2 level support of incidents escalated by CSOC interns.
  • Educate and mentor CSOC interns to enable them to learn and advance their Information Security abilities.
  • Security Assessment:
  • Perform vulnerability assessments to gauge the organization against regulatory and internal policy compliance.
  • Provide technical security guidance to IT staff, particularly on vulnerability remediation.
  • Participate in application and infrastructure penetration tests and social engineering tests.

Research:
  • Maintain situational awareness of the latest cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigation strategies.
  • Working and collaborating with researchers on cybersecurity-related research projects at Clemson University.

Required Skills (Rank in order of importance):
  • Experience working in Security monitoring and intrusion detection; security assessments and penetration testing; incident response.

Preferred Skills (Rank in order of importance):
  • Scripting
  • Log analysis
  • Web application
  • Experience using security tools like Splunk, BRO/Zeek, FireEye, Tenable, and Stealth watch.
  • Windows and Linux hardening experience.
  • Cloud experience

Required Education:
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field or equivalent relevant experience may be substituted.
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  • ID: #43351237
  • State: South Carolina Clemson 29631 Clemson USA
  • City: Clemson
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2022-06-20
  • Deadline: 2022-08-15
  • Category: Et cetera