Digital Forensic Analyst Job at ITnova, Crownsville, MD

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  • ITnova
  • Crownsville, MD

Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

ITnova is seeking a Digital Forensics Analyst . The role will work closely with Government counterparts to provide support in cybersecurity incident response, mitigation, analysis, & information dissemination. Provide systems, and network forensic investigation support for the Security Operations Center (SOC) activities. Work as a Digital Forensics Analyst within the State of Maryland DoIT Office of Security Management & responsible for maintaining the integrity of the cybersecurity related analysis. This role will be responsible for performing the following tasks:

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Report to Director of Security Operations or his/her designee
  • Provide Tier 3 escalation support
  • Plan, initiate, and conduct investigations for cybersecurity incidents response efforts
  • Perform forensic examinations on compromised systems
  • Understand and use forensic tools and techniques for cybersecurity incidents
  • Create forensic root cause and scope of impact analysis reports
  • Contribute to technical briefings on the details of forensics exams and report
  • Provide support in conducting malware analysis of attacker tools
  • Stay current on incident response and digital forensics skills, best practices, and tools
  • Train Jr. Analysts on usage of SIEM tools (Splunk), and basic event analysis
  • Develop rules and tune SIEM and related tools to streamline the event analysis process
  • Assist developing new processes and procedures for security monitoring
  • Monitor networks for threats from external and internal sources
  • Analyze network traffic of compromised systems and networks
  • Correlate actionable security events from various sources
  • Review threat data and develop custom detection signatures
  • Gather and analyze threat intelligence data and conduct threat hunting
  • Understand cybersecurity attacks and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) associated with advanced threats
  • Communicate clearly with Government counterparts, and SOC customers
  • Development and implementation and operational and technical incident response processes, procedure, guidance, and standards
  • Ability to work outside of regular business hours, the role may require on-call support after regular business hours or weekends.

Education and Years of Experience:

  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related scientific or technical discipline and 4+ years of experience. Associate degree and/or cyber courses/certifications or 5 years of experience in directly related fields may be substituted in lieu of bachelor's degree

Required Skills/Certifications:

  • Hands-on experience with security monitoring and SIEMs tools - Splunk Enterprise Security is preferred
  • Demonstrated working knowledge of cyber forensics and incident handling best practice processes, procedures, standards, and techniques
  • Hands-on experience with forensics image capture tools i.e., FTK Imager, MAGNET ACQUIRE
  • Hands-on experience with system image/file system/registry forensics tools i.e., Encase, FTK, X-Ways, Magnet AXIOM, Sleuthkit, Access Data Registry Viewer, Registry Recon, or other)
  • Hands-on experience with PCAP analysis tools i.e., Wireshark, TCP Dump, Network Miner, Xplico, or other
  • Hands-on experience with memory forensics tools i.e., BlackLight, Volatility, SANS SIFT, Magnet RAM Capture, or FireEye Memoryze, CrowdStrike Crowd Response
  • Hands-on experience with Endpoint Detection & Response solutions - Tanium Threat Response, McAfee or other

Desired Skills/Certifications (Not Required):

  • Practical hands-on experience with static in malware analysis
  • Hands-on experience with malware anti-forensics, obfuscation, packing techniques
  • Hands-on experience with malware Analysis - Miscellaneous dynamic & static analysis tools (IDA Pro, Ghidra, OllyDBG, WinHex, HexEdit, HexDump, PeSTudio, REMux, OLEDUMP)
  • Hands-on experience with Custom Signature Creation - YARA
  • Scripting/Programming experience - Python, Perl, C, C++, Go
  • Highly desired industry certifications include Certified Forensics Computer Examiner (CFCE), Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI), GIAC Certified Forensic Examiner (GCFE), Certified Computer Examiner (CCE)
  • Relevant industry certifications such as Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM), Certified Reverse Engineering Analyst (CREA) etc.

Job Tags

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