Senior Consultant, Cyber Incident Response

The Senior Consultant is responsible for delivering Incident Response support to our clients by helping them investigate and remediate the impacts of cyber attacks quickly and comprehensively. This role will report to the Associate Director of Cyber Response and work closely with the Cyber Crisis Management team. The successful candidate will have a strong technical skill set and a deep understanding of current and emerging threat actors.

Role tasks and responsibilities

Incident response

• Overseeing cloud, host and network based investigations.
• Ownership of the lifecycle of a cyber incident including identification, containment, eradication and recovery.
• Define and execute investigative strategies to meet our clients needs including guiding more junior members of the team to help implement this strategy.
• Lead technical scoping engagement, triage priorities, and recovery strategy for affected systems.
• Perform log analysis from a variety of sources (e.g., individual host logs, network traffic logs) to identify threats.
• Undertake evidence acquisition on a variety of assets and lead the investigation, identify the root cause / overall impact caused by the threat.
• Advise our clients on how to eradicate the threats and rebuild securely utilizing the findings from your investigation.
• Threat hunting using endpoint tooling and findings from your investigation to evaluate an attacker's spread through a system and network, anticipating and thwarting further attacker activity.
• Perform live compromise assessments for organizations who suspect a compromise.
• Detect and hunt unknown live, dormant, and custom malware in memory across multiple systems in an enterprise environment.
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of both existing and emerging threat actors, as well as experience identifying rapidly changing tools, tactics and procedures of attackers.
• Advise on the safe technical recovery of an organizations IT systems balancing the need to understand what has happened but speed up recovery.
• This role has a requirement to be on call.

Client Management

Reporting

Supporting the growth of the Cyber Response practice

Requirements

The base salary range for this position is $115,000-$125,000 per year. Exact compensation offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Control Risks is committed to a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age or veteran status. If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made in order to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know and we will be happy to accommodate your needs.

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