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    Cyber Network Defense Analyst - Arlington, United States - Piper Companies

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    Zachary Piper Solutions provides remote and onsite advanced technical assistance, proactive hunting, rapid onsite incident response, and immediate investigation and resolution using host-based, network-based and cloud-based cybersecurity analysis capabilities.

    Team personnel provide front line response for digital forensics/incident response (DFIR) and proactively hunting for malicious cyber activity. We are seeking
    Cyber Network Defense Analysts (CNDA) to support this critical customer mission.


    Responsibilities:

    • Characterize and analyze network traffic to identify anomalous activity and potential threats to network resources
    • Coordinate with enterprisewide cyber defense staff to validate network alerts
    • Perform management duties as required to support the team, projects and analysts
    • Document and escalate incidents (including event's history, status, and potential impact for further action) that may cause ongoing and immediate impact to the environment
    • Perform cyber defense trend analysis and reporting
    • Perform event correlation using information gathered from a variety of sources within the enterprise to gain situational awareness and determine the effectiveness of an observed attack
    • Provide daily summary reports of network events and activity relevant to cyber defense practices
    • Receive and analyze network alerts from various sources within the enterprise and determine possible causes of alerts
    • Provide timely detection, identification, and alerting of possible attacks/intrusions, anomalous activities, and misuse activities and distinguish these incidents and events from benign activities
    • Use cyber defense tools for continual monitoring and analysis of system activity to identify malicious activity
    • Analyze identified malicious activity to determine weaknesses exploited, exploitation methods, effects on system and information
    • Identify and analyze anomalies in network traffic using metadata
    • Validate intrusion detection system (IDS) alerts against network traffic using packet analysis tools
    • Identify applications and operating systems of a network device based on network traffic
    • Reconstruct a malicious attack or activity based off network traffic
    • Identify network mapping and operating system (OS) fingerprinting activities
    • Assist in the construction of signatures which can be implemented on cyber defense network tools in response to new or observed threats within the network environment or enclave

    Required Skills/Clearances:

    • U.S. Citizenship
    • Active TS/SCI clearance
    • Ability to obtain Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Entry on Duty (EOD) Suitability
    • 8+ years of direct relevant experience in cyber defense analysis using leading edge technologies and industry standard cyber defense tools
    • Experience successfully developing and deploying signatures
    • Experience detecting host and networkbased intrusions via intrusion detection technologies (e.g., Snort)
    • Experience implementing incident handling methodologies
    • Experience implementing protocol analyzers
    • Experience collecting data from a variety of cyber defense resources
    • Experience reading and interpreting signatures (e.g. snort)
    • Experience performing packetlevel analysis
    • Experience conducting trend analysis

    Desired Skills:

    • Python programming experience
    • Strong math and science background
    • Experience with Carnegie Mellon SiLK tool suite

    Required Education:


    BS Computer Science, Cyber Security, Computer Engineering, or related degree; or HS Diploma & 10 years of network investigations experience.


    Desired Certifications:

    • One or more of the following professional certifications: GNFA, GCIH, GCIA, GSEC, CASP+, CySA+, PaLMS, FedVTE
    • GSEC (SANS401), Arcsight (or other SEIM solution), Network+, Security+

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