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Job Description
The primary function of the Security Analyst is to analyse any incidents escalated by the Level 1 Security Engineer and undertake the detailed investigation of the Security Event. The Security Analyst shall determine whether the security event will be classified as an incident. They will be coordinating with the customer IT and Security team for resolution of the Security Incident.
This role reports to the SOC Team Lead.
Responsibilities
- Escalate validated and confirmed incidents to designated incident response team.
- Notify Client of incident and required mitigation works.
- Fine-tune SIEM rules to reduce false positive and remove false negatives.
- Collect global threat intelligence and internal threats then inject actions based on analysis and recommendation.
- Proactively research and monitor security information to identify potential threats that may impact the organisation.
- Develop and distribute information and alerts on required corrective actions to the organisation.
- Learn new attack patterns, actively participate in security forums.
- Work closely with Vulnerability Management and designated incident response team.
- Understand the structure and the meaning of logs from different log sources such as FW, IDS, Windows DC, Cisco appliances, AV and antimalware software, email security etc.
- Understand the subject of Carbon Black alarmsPerform Ad-hoc training for L1 analysis.
- Perform threat intel research.
- Ability to run and understand Sandbox Static Analysis.
- Open and update incidents in SecurityHQ (ITSM Platform) to report the alarms triggered or threats detected. Analyst should properly include for each incident on SecurityHQ all details related to the logs, alarms and other indicators identified in accordance with the intervention protocol of each client and the SLA.
- Track and update incidents and requests based on client’s updates and analysis results.
Essential Skills
- Knowledge and hands-on experience of implementation and management of IDS/IPS, Firewall, VPN, and other security products.
- Experience with Security Information Event Management (SIEM) tools, creating advanced co-relation rules, administration of SIEM, system hardening, and Vulnerability Assessments.
- Should have expertise on TCP/IP network traffic and event log analysis.
- Knowledge and hands-on experience with LogRhythm, QRadar, Arcsight, Mcafee epo, NetIQ Sentinel or any SIEM tool.
- Knowledge of ITIL disciplines such as Incident, Problem and Change Management.
- Configuration and Troubleshooting experience on Checkpoint, Cisco, Fortigate, PaloAlto and Sonicwall firewalls would be an added advantage.
