Incident Response Security Consultant

2 Months ago • 2 Years + • Cyber Security

Job Summary

Job Description

As an Incident Response Security Consultant at Mandiant, you'll help clients prepare for, mitigate, and respond to cybersecurity threats. Responsibilities include investigating and containing incidents, identifying attacker TTPs and IOCs, conducting forensic analysis (host, network, log, malware triage), automating threat tracking, determining the need for compromise notifications, and developing reports and presentations for technical and executive audiences. You will work on high-profile incidents, perform threat hunting, and assist clients in navigating complex situations. The role requires collaboration with internal and client teams and involves complete incident response, including investigation, containment, remediation, and crisis management.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree in CS or related field
  • 2 years network forensics experience
  • 2 years end-to-end IR investigation experience
  • Incident investigation & containment
  • Forensic analysis & malware triage
  • Report writing & presentation skills
Good to have:
  • Cloud certifications
  • CTF/Hacking experience
  • Excellent communication skills

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of investigative experience with network forensics, malware triage analysis, cloud forensics, or disk and memory forensics.
  • 2 years of experience working end to end Incident Response investigations, analysis, or containment actions.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Certifications in cloud platforms.
  • Experience in security competitions, Capture the Flags (CTFs) and/or testing platforms such as Hack the Box, TryHackMe, Overthewire, etc.
  • Ability to communicate investigative findings and strategies to technical staff, executive leadership, legal counsel, and internal and external clients.
  • Excellent time and project management skills.

About the job

As a Security Consultant, you will be responsible for helping clients effectively prepare for, proactively mitigate, and detect and respond to cyber security threats. Security Consultants have an understanding of computer science, operating system functionality and networking, cloud services, corporate network environments and how to apply this knowledge to cyber security threats.

As a Security Consultant, you could work on engagements including assisting clients in navigating technically complex and high-profile incidents, performing forensic analysis, threat hunting, and malware triage. You may also test client networks, applications and devices by emulating the latest techniques to help them defend against threats, and will be the technical advocate for information security requirements and provide an in-depth understanding of the information security domain. You will also articulate and present complex concepts to business stakeholders, executive leadership, and technical contributors and successfully lead complex engagements alongside cross functional teams.

As an Incident Response Consultant, you will provide industry-leading incident response, assessment, transformation, managed detection and response, and training services with tactical support. You will help organizations detect and respond to threats and reduce the overall impact of business risk before, during, and after an incident. You will be able to resolve security incidents quickly, effectively and at scale with complete incident response including investigation, containment, remediation, and crisis management. In this role, you will work on engagements including assisting clients in navigating technically complex and high-profile incidents, performing forensic analysis, threat hunting, and malware triage.

Part of Google Cloud, Mandiant is a recognized leader in dynamic cyber defense, threat intelligence and incident response services. Mandiant's cybersecurity expertise has earned the trust of security professionals and company executives around the world. Our unique combination of renowned frontline experience responding to some of the most complex breaches, nation-state grade threat intelligence, machine intelligence, and the industry's best security validation ensures that Mandiant knows more about today's advanced threats than anyone.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with internal and customer teams to investigate and contain incidents.
  • Recognize and codify attacker Tools, Tactics, and Procedures (TTPs) and Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) that can be applied to current and future investigations.
  • Conduct host forensics, network forensics, log analysis, and malware triage in support of incident response investigations.
  • Automate tracking and discovery of threats leveraging internal and external data sources. Investigate impact to customers to determine if new detection or compromise notifications are necessary.
  • Develop and present comprehensive and accurate reports, training, and presentations for technical and executive audiences.

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