Vulnerability Analyst

The Vulnerability Analyst is responsible for analyzing key data streams and interpreting threats vulnerabilities impacts and likelihood of asset exposure. The aggregation of ingested data informs analysis with key identifiers to generate a holistic view of the enterprise and provide recommended mitigations and/or remediation of possible exploitable assets. The analyst also assists Vulnerability and Compliance Assessment Management with cyber analysis to support requested exception requests. Responsible for cybersecurity assessment/analysis and provides recommendations for Enterprise level systems and applications designs. Involved in a wide range of cybersecurity areas including system architectures firewalls inspection and analysis tools encryption components and networking architectures. Involved in security reporting and analysis to regulatory agencies.

POSITION DUTIES AND RESPONSBILBILITES

• Identify systemic security issues based on the analysis of vulnerability and configuration data.
• Share meaningful insights about the context of an organizations threat environment that improve its risk management posture.
• Apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality integrity availability authentication and non-repudiation).
• Host/network access control mechanisms (e.g. access control list capabilities lists).

• Conduct vulnerability scans and recognizing vulnerabilities in security systems.

• Assessing the robustness of security systems and designs.
• Detecting host and network-based intrusions via intrusion detection technologies (e.g. Snort).
• Ability to mimic threat behaviors.
• Support penetration testing tools and techniques.
• Use social engineering techniques. (e.g. phishing baiting tailgating etc.).
• Support network analysis tools to identify vulnerabilities. (e.g. fuzzing nmap etc.).
• Review logs to identify evidence of past intrusions.
• Conduct application vulnerability assessments.
• Perform impact/risk assessments.
• Develop insights about the context of an organizations threat environment.
• Analyze organizations cyber defense policies and configurations and evaluate compliance with regulations and organizational directives.
• Maintain knowledge of applicable cyber defense policies regulations and compliance documents specifically related to cyber defense auditing.

• Bachelors degree in engineering/science/information technology discipline.
• Masters degree in engineering/science/information technology discipline.
• Eight or more years of education and/or relevant experience may be considered to satisfy educational and years-of-experience requirements for this posting.

• Knowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols and network security methodologies.
• Knowledge of laws regulations policies and ethics as they relate to cybersecurity and privacy.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities.
• Knowledge of risk management processes (e.g. methods for assessing and mitigating risk).
• Knowledge of cryptography and cryptographic key management concepts
• Knowledge of cybersecurity specific operational impacts of cybersecurity lapses.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity application vulnerabilities.
• Knowledge of network access identity and access management (e.g. public key infrastructure Oauth OpenID SAML SPML).
• Knowledge of how traffic flows across the network (e.g. Transmission Control Protocol TCP and Internet Protocol IP Open System Interconnection Model OSI Information Technology Infrastructure Library current version ITIL).
• Knowledge of programming language structures and logic.
• Knowledge of system and application security threats and vulnerabilities (e.g. buffer overflow mobile code cross-site scripting Procedural Language/Structured Query Language PL/SQL and injections race conditions covert channel replay return-oriented attacks malicious code).
• Knowledge of systems diagnostic tools and fault identification techniques.
• Knowledge of what constitutes a network attack and a network attacks relationship to both threats and vulnerabilities.
• Knowledge of different classes of attacks (e.g. passive active insider close-in distribution attacks).
• Knowledge of system administration network and operating system hardening techniques.
• Knowledge of cyber-attack stages (e.g. reconnaissance scanning enumeration gaining access escalation of privileges maintaining access network exploitation covering tracks).
• Knowledge of network security architecture concepts including topology protocols components and principles (e.g. application of defense-in-depth).
• Knowledge of security models (e.g. Bell-LaPadula model Biba integrity model Clark-Wilson integrity model).
• Knowledge of system administration concepts for operating systems such as but not limited to Unix/Linux IOS Android and Windows operating systems.
• Knowledge of packet-level analysis using appropriate tools (e.g. Wireshark tcpdump).
• Knowledge of network protocols such as TCP/IP Dynamic Host Configuration Domain Name System (DNS) and directory services.
• Knowledge of penetration testing principles tools and techniques.
• Knowledge of application Security Risks (e.g. Open Web Application Security Project Top 10 list)