Digital Forensics Incident Response Consultant

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Responsibilities

• Perform incident response and digital forensic activities for PS engagements.
• Deliver and execute PS engagements focused on helping customers manage and investigate cybersecurity incidents.
• Conduct log reviews including structured (CSV, TSV, JSON) and unstructured (syslog) data.
• Perform Windows, Linux, Mac, and mobile forensics investigations.
• Utilize SIEM solutions such as Splunk, Sentinel, ELK for investigations.
• Engage in threat hunting using EDR solutions such as CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Trend Micro.
• Apply Microsoft cloud skills such as M365 and/or Azure.
• Utilize AWS cloud skills such as GuardDuty, CloudWatch, IAM, WAF.
• Conduct global or onsite security assessments, possibly working in customer's office/environment.
• Attend periodical meetings to discuss ongoing security initiatives and their progress.
• Advise and work on security initiatives alongside the customer.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Four or more years of relevant work experience in a cybersecurity capacity.
• Experience responding to cybersecurity incidents, triaging, and/or investigating cybersecurity incidents.

Nice-to-haves

• One or more technical certifications in areas such as incident handling, forensic analysis, reverse malware engineering or forensic tool-specific training.
• Experience working in an enterprise environment.
• Experience working with clients to proactively provide cybersecurity services (tabletops, incident response training, etc.).
• Experience in network infrastructure, communication protocols, and network log analysis.
• Experience in packet capture and TCP/UDP traffic flow analysis.
• Knowledge of computer exploitation methodologies.
• Current information security solutions and technologies, including network and host based products.
• Experience in using forensic tools such as EnCase, FTK, Sleuth Kit, Volatility, Axiom, Cellebrite, Black Light, X-Ways, or similar.
• Experience in SIEM, EDR, IDS, and DLP technologies, memory and volatile data analysis.
• Knowledge of enterprise cloud infrastructure (AWS, G-Suite, O365, Azure, etc.).
• Knowledge of Command line tooling (grep, sed, awk, powershell, etc.).
• Ability to function in a dynamic environment, managing multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Ability to make recommendations to remediate complex security threats.
• Ability to synthesize data from multiple sources and present concise, relevant information to non-technical audiences.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present to a variety of audiences.
• Ability to set and manage competing expectations and priorities with technical and senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytic, qualitative and quantitative reasoning skills.
• Strong creative problem-solving abilities and ability to share knowledge with colleagues.

Benefits

• Hybrid work environment with defined work location including work from home.
• Minimum eight assigned office days per month.

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