Job Description
The mission of NYC3 is to Prevent, Detect, Respond and Recover from cyber threats against the data and infrastructure of the City of New York, in collaboration with public and private sector partners. More specifically this position is for the Threat Management tower within NYC3.
As a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst you will work closely with the CERT, Security Operations (SOC), and Intelligence teams on providing technical, tactical, and operational intelligence and assisting in providing strategic intelligence briefings to the executive team at NYC3. The technical, tactical and operational intelligence will assist in triaging, responding, remediating and recovering from high severity incidents involving over 140 agencies of the City of New York. Your responsibilities will include
– Develop actionable information in the form of technical indicators, reports, lists, rules, signatures, or indicators and warnings
– Perform analysis on new indicators to detect prior compromise.
– Develop and use predictive analytics to counter threats by tracking attack campaigns.
– Build metrics utilizing a data security approach to gain insight into attacks and responses to incidents within the City of New York.
– Collaborate with the CERT and SOC to perform advanced rule creations and hunting for identified Indicators of Compromise from generated and analyzed intelligence.
Minimum Qualification Requirements
– Enrolled in a Master’s degree program from an accredited college OR
– Enrolled in a Bachelor’s degree program (with an anticipated graduation date no later than May 2020).
Preferred Skills
– Currently enrolled in a Master’s program for with extensive education and/or some professional experience with cyber security topics and functions.
– Currently enrolled in a Master’s program for with extensive education and/or some professional experience with cyber security topics and functions.
– An active knowledge of current trends in computer security, software/hardware vulnerabilities.
– A general knowledge on security fundamentals and an inquiring mind.
– An active interest in current security research.
– Knowledge in network analysis, host analysis and IDS/IPS technology.
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