Lead Incident Response Analyst responds to security incidents according to established policies and best practices. Incident handlers provide guidance to tier one and other first responders for the proper handling of Information Security incidents, coordinate efforts of and provide timely updates to multiple business units during response as well as provide recommendations to the units as required. The Senior Incident Responder (IR) is a key member of the Thomson Reuters Cyber Defense team responsible for analyzing, triaging, scoping, containing, providing guidance for remediation, and determining root cause of security incidents. In this role you will use data analysis, threat intelligence, and cutting-edge security technologies.
About the role:
As a Lead Incident Response Analyst, you will:
- Provide expertise on incident response, forensic and malware analysis
- Primary escalation point for SOC
- Develop, document, and Implement runbooks, capabilities, and techniques for IR
- Perform triage and analysis on workstations, servers and network infrastructure
- Identify and analyze malware using live forensics, hard drive forensics, sandboxes and reverse engineering
- Identify indicators of compromise and apply them to the incident response process
- Perform activities necessary for immediate containment and rapid resolution of incidents
- Maintain current knowledge and understanding of the threat landscape, emerging security threats, and vulnerabilities
- Assisting in building SOC and CIRT processes, procedures, and training
- Creating and enhancing standard operating procedures and technical guides
- Assist in the creation and tuning of network and host detection signatures based on user behavior analysis and threat intelligence
- Stay abreast of current technologies, developments, security compliance requirements, standards and industry trends in order to help achieve the goals of the company
- Maintain a high level of confidentiality
- Coordinate and drive efforts during response activities and post-mortem
- Participate in after hours on-call rotation when required
- Perform deep dive investigations to determine root cause of complex information security incidents
- Maintain a balance between IR and project work
Travel 25%
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About you
To be considered for the role, you will have:
- GIAC Security Expert certification (GSE)
- Experience using event escalation and reporting procedures
- Experience supporting Network Investigations.
- Understanding TCP/IP communications & knowledge of how common protocols and applications work at the network level, including DNS, HTTP, and SMB
- Understanding UNIX, Windows, Mac operating systems and command line tools
- Experience performing forensics on various OS including disk and memory
- Intermediate skills using Windows CMD line, PowerShell, and Linux Bash
- Knowledge of how the Windows file system and registry function
- Ability to learn and operate in a dynamic environment
- Ability to demonstrate analytical expertise, close attention to detail, excellent critical thinking, logic, and solution orientation and to learn and adapt quickly
- Knowledge of network monitoring, analysis, troubleshooting, and configuration control technologies
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Knowledge of scripting languages used with IR and automation
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What’s in it For You?
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Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
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