Senior Analyst
Location: Chantilly, VA
Responsibilities:
- Provides special purpose consultation and support on technical matters
- Performs ongoing monitoring and threat analysis
- Analyzes logs/traffic
- Identifies potential IT security incidents and escalates information to appropriate staff
- Assesses threat and vulnerability information from all sources (both internal and external) and promptly applies applicable mitigation techniques initiating indications and warnings
- Conducts vulnerability analysis and assessments across the entire Senate IT enterprise in support of operations and maintenance activities
- Develops mitigation and remediation plans as a result of vulnerability assessment findings
- Trains users and promotes security awareness to ensure system security and to improve server and network efficiency
- Confers with users to discuss issues including but not limited to computer data access needs, security violations and programming changes
- Develops plans to safeguard computer files against accidental or unauthorized modification, destruction or disclosure and to meet emergency data processing needs
- Monitors current reports of computer viruses to determine when to update virus protection systems
- Documents computer security and emergency measures policies, procedures and tests
- Trains off-hours monitoring staff
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree is a plus or equivalent combination of education and experience
- At least 5 years of related experience and/or training in the field of IT security monitoring and analysis, cyber threat analysis and vulnerability analysis
- Previous experience in and a proven method for performing 1st level analysis and interpretation of information from SOC systems
- Previous experience in and proven methods for incident identification/analysis, escalation procedures and reduction of false-positives
- Demonstrated experience consistent with ISO 20000; ITIL; NIST 800 series, specifically, NIST 800-61 "Computer Incidents Handling Guide" and NIST 800-53 "Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems” and any other controls that are applicable to network security monitoring/analysis, event escalation, cyber threat analysis and vulnerability analysis
- Demonstrated experience with and application in establishing security controls to protect information systems consistent within industry
- Demonstrated experience with and application of open and closed-source resources within industry
- Specific experience in monitoring, evaluating and interpreting vulnerabilities, CVEs, remedies, mitigation measures, techniques for escalation, social engineering tactics, phishing techniques and performing vulnerability assessments
- Based on task(s) assigned, state-of-the-art expertise on the hardware, software and systems in use by the IT Security Branch and in the SOCs, including but not limited to ArcSight SIM, nCircle vulnerability assessment system, Cisco PIX firewall, TopLayer IDS balancer, Symantec Security Information Management System (SESA and SSIM), Symantec Client Security, NetIQ, Cisco VMS and Cisco and Snort IDS/IPS sensors
- Customer service skills training
Licenses/Certification Requirements:
- ArcSight, Symantec and Cisco
Other relevant professional certifications in the field of IT Security are a plus (desirable, not mandatory), such as:
- GIAC Certified Professional, Information Security Professional (GISP)
- GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA)
- ArcSight Certified Integrator/Administrator (ACIA)
- Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP)
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- ArcSight Certified Security Analyst (ACSA)
- Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)
EOE/AA/M/F/D/V
