Security Analyst

20 May 2024

Vacancy expired!

Softpath is an award winning national consulting and staffing firm headquartered in Metro Atlanta area with over 800 employees globally. We support Fortune 500 clients in 20+ verticals including State/Federal Agencies, Pharma, Financial, Healthcare, IT, Retail, Telecom and Mfg. Softpath is well known for the great care we take with our clients and employees alike.

Details

Job Title: Security Analyst

Location: Clemson, SC (50% Remote)

Duration: 06+ Months Contract

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 in routine 24/7 on-call rotational duties within the group will be expected (Typically, every 5-6 weeks)
  • 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 remediations.
  • Participate in application and infrastructure penetration tests, as well as social engineering tests.

Research:
  • Maintain situational awareness of the latest cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigation strategies.
  • Working and collaborating with researchers on cyber security related research projects at Clemson University.
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Softpath is a preferred staffing vendor to fortune 500 companies in the US headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Softpath System, LLC is an Affirmative Action /Equal Opportunity Employer

  • ID: #49969375
  • State: South Carolina Columbia 29201 Columbia USA
  • City: Columbia
  • Salary: Depends on Experience
  • Job type: Contract
  • Showed: 2023-05-20
  • Deadline: 2023-07-15
  • Category: Et cetera