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Kroll’s Security Operation’s Center helps firm manage cybersecurity risks at every stage of preparedness by identifying vulnerabilities and readiness through a comprehensive gap analysis and risk assessment; implementing best practices to avoid compromise; and recovering from cybersecurity attacks.

At Kroll, your work will help protect, restore and maximize value for our clients. Join us and together we’ll maximize the value of your career.

Security Operations Analyst

We are seeking candidates for a 24/7 security operations team. Candidate will be responsible for monitoring security events and alerts for potential malicious behaviors and evaluating the type and severity of security events by making use of packet analyses, and an in-depth understanding of exploits and vulnerabilities and providing incident response and escalation to the incident response team. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Use SIEM technologies and other native tools to perform the monitoring of security events on a 24x7 basis. Manage inbound requests via the ticketing system, as well as via telephone calls, and provide security notifications via three methods: logging incident tickets, sending emails, and placing telephone calls. Perform analysis on logs produced by network devices utilized within the infrastructure such as firewalls, content filtering, syslog from various sources/devices, assorted Intrusion Detection capabilities, substantiating vulnerability scanner results, directory services, DHCP logs, Secure Email Gateway logs, and approved applications. Use the SIEM to monitor security events and perform analysis, while integrating the results and information needed to proactively protect the enterprise. Provide security events analysis and support to include identifying potential threat, anomalies, and infections, documenting findings, providing recommendations within the incident management system, performing triage of incoming security events, performing preliminary and secondary analysis of those events, and validating the events. Provide cybersecurity root-cause analysis in support of any tickets for which it fails to meet the Acceptable Quality Levels. This root-cause analysis will include documenting recommendations for corrective action.

REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or related area. Minimum 4 years of monitoring experience in Cyber Security Operations Center. Excellent technical experience and expertise in troubleshooting Microsoft products and Operating system (desirable – knowledge of MAC OS & Linux). Understanding of basic network services, TCP/IP, IP Routing, attacks, exploits and vulnerabilities. Experience with VPN, SSL, other encryption methodology / technology a plus. Working knowledge of policies, procedures, and protocols of Security Operations Center. Experience using numerous security tools and technologies to include some of the following technologies: SIEM, IDS/IPS, Web application firewalls, Antivirus, Proxy and Url filtering, DLP, Vulnerability scanner.

DESIRED CERTIFICATIONS:

CompTIA Security+ Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)  Certified SOC Analyst (CSA) Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate 

In order to be considered for a position at Kroll, you must formally apply via careers.kroll.com 

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