Associate Director, Cyber Incident Response

The Associate Director is responsible for managing the Cyber Response Team in the US and leading overall delivery of incident response cases in the region. This role involves leading the technical aspects of the cyber response practice, managing our technical team members as well as managing client relationships. This role will report to Global Head of Cyber Response and work in tandem with European, Middle East and Asia colleagues on a follow-the-sun basis. The successful candidate will have a strong technical skill set, deep understanding of the North American cyber incident response market and a deep understanding of current and emerging advanced threat actors. They will have a proven track record of responding to advanced threats leveraging forensics and threat hunting technology.

Role tasks and responsibilities

Technical response

• Oversee incident response cases for all host and network based investigations, be responsible for the overall quality of our technical incident response work.
• Ownership of the entire lifecycle of a cyber incident including identification, containment, eradication and recovery. A particular area of specialty in eradication and recovery from an incident.
• Threat hunting using EDR tooling 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.
• Be responsible for Control Risks technical Cyber Response strategy. Identify, design and then implement solutions that meet these strategic objectives.

Client Management

Reporting

Team management

Governance

Supporting the growth of the Cyber Response practice

Requirements

The base salary range for this position is $140,000-$150,000 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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