IS Security Analyst Assoc

Job Summary: The IT Security Analyst performs a wide variety of security duties with a primary focus on monitoring for security compromises, remediated security issues, and maintaining/advancing security related applications/processes.

Major Responsibilities:

• Monitor and evaluate SIEM and other applications for compromise indicators
• Analyze indicators and triage events
• Perform 1st level response to security breach/compromise indicators and other security related requests
• Perform 1st level malware/breach/compromise analysis and remediation
• Log and document event responses per security operational procedures
• Perform basic application administration of security related monitoring and operations software
• Monitor security application health
• Create and/or update security operations procedure/process documentation
• Create and/or update technical and architectural documentation
• Mentor, advise, and guide end users as to security best practices

Education: Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. Knowledge / Skills / Abilities:

• Experience/knowledge/expertise with the processes, functionality, administration and architecture of most of the following:
  • Enterprise SIEM tools (CrowdStrike and ProofPoint required)
  • Next Generation Enterprise antivirus/EDR products
  • Security Vulnerability tools and processes
  • Network Security controls such as IDS/IPS, Firewalls, etc.
  • TCP/IP and networking/system vulnerabilities
  • Email security controls
  • Windows PC operating systems
  • Windows Server operating systems
  • Windows Active Directory, including GPOs, Security Groups, User permissions, etc.
  • SCCM
  • Microsoft Office applications
  • Experience/proficiency with administrative scripting languages (PowerShell a plus)
  • UNIX/LINUX
• Basic familiarity with security incident processes
• Basic familiarity with trouble isolation, log analysis, event correlation, and data analysis

Certification / Licensure:

• CCNA (Security), CompTIA Security+

DISCLAIMER All duties and requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. This position description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by an employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by their supervisor(s)/manager(s). This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" employment relationship.