Overview:
Thomson Reuters is looking to add a Threat Detection Analyst to add to our cyber defense capacities. Working with Threat Intelligence and Incident Response teams to develop and deploy security measures across the estate while advancing our threat detection program.
Job Description:
Threat Detection & Prevention - Acting on threat intelligence, incidents, and new vulnerability reports to develop and deploy detections and prevention mechanisms across the environment.
Security Measure Testing - using various scripts and tools to emulate specific tactics ensuring deployed security measures are working properly.
Hunt Operations - Searching environment logs on a mass scale for anomalies, bad network hygiene, & possible threat actor activity.
Process development - Constantly working on advancing the Threat Detection function via process improvements, automation, and scope of environment coverage.
Preferred Qualifications:
The ability to analyze endpoint and network logs on a large scale to find anomalies and weaknesses, formulating action plans to strengthen overall security posture.
Entry-level experience of Splunk as a front-end user, correlating log sources across the environment in a cyber security and best practice capacity.
Proactive mindset & aptitude to research emerging threats and hunt for potential exploitation without constant oversight.
Strong communication skills, working with Incident Response teams to identify new internal and external data sources to onboard while fine tuning logic based on feedback advancing threat detection capabilities.
The ability to research and document new vendor and custom threat detection signatures to assist the SOC in their understanding and investigation.
2+ years of experience in detection development/deployment or threat hunting operations.
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