Cybersecurity Incident Handler
Booz Allen Hamilton is a prominent consulting firm focused on providing solutions in various sectors, including cybersecurity. They are seeking a Cybersecurity Incident Handler to act as a first line of defense against cyber threats, analyze incidents, and enhance network security for critical infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Responding to and mitigating threats in real time
- Developing network defense skills
- Monitoring, detecting, and analyzing threats
- Collecting data to help incident response understand and mitigate the threat
- Analyzing alerts to determine affected systems and initiating recovery efforts
- Contributing to assessments and analyzing patterns to understand attackers’ goals
Skills
- Experience with a security operations center actively engaged with incident response activities, including analysis of artifacts, writing incident reports, and triaging of security incidents
- Experience with cyber threat intelligence, digital forensics, red teaming, threat hunt, cloud incident response, counterintelligence, or detection engineering
- Knowledge of cybersecurity standards and the implementation of industry best practices
- Knowledge of external standards, including ISO 22301, ISO 22317, and NIST guidelines such as NIST 800-53 or NIST 800-61
- Ability to work a rotating shift schedule supporting a 24/7 environment
- TS/SCI clearance
- HS diploma or GED
- DoD 8140 baseline Level II Certification
- Experience with advanced Microsoft Office products
- Experience with cyber technologies and capabilities, including continuous monitoring, incident response, advanced threat hunt, secure Cloud and mobile capabilities, ongoing assessment, digital forensics, and threat hunt
- Experience with Cloud and DevSecOps
- Experience with cybersecurity tools and solutions such as Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Corelight, Suricata or Snort, Palo Alto and Cisco firewalls, Archer Case Management, ServiceNow, Threat Connect, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk SOAR, Cofense, IronPort Mail Gateways, or Microsoft G5 Defender suite
- Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Possession of excellent time management and analytical skills
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits
- Paid leave
- Professional development
- Tuition assistance
- Work-life programs
- Dependent care
- Recognition awards program
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