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About the Role:
CrowdStrike is looking for a self-starting, responsible, action-oriented, and highly motivated individual to join our Intelligence Team. This position will require the candidate to support and advise on both technical and non-technical collection activities that support finished intelligence products and information requests.
The mission of a Security Researcher is to leverage operational tradecraft to develop and maintain unique sources of cyber threat intelligence information and enable threat analysis. It serves as an important support role to ongoing analysis of actors, adversaries, geopolitical developments, and transnational issues, and is instrumental in providing unique insight into finished Intelligence products used by CrowdStrike customers and stakeholders.
The successful candidate will be an operational security (OPSEC)-savvy, detail-oriented problem solver, and have experience balancing concurrent projects and routinely completing tasks with set deadlines.
Highly qualified candidates will have a strong background in the Intelligence cycle, responding to requests for information (RFIs), collection management fundamentals, and operational support tasks. They will understand threat intelligence, have strong open source (OSINT) research skills, and be comfortable with internal and cross-team collaboration.
What You'll Do:Monitoring and responding to internal and external RFIs and collection support tasks through established workflow processes.Ensuring collection requirements are tasked to the appropriate elements and completed within established time frames.Identifying where novel collection activities can support and address known intelligence gaps vis a vis finished intelligence production.Employing secure virtual operational tradecraft methods and practices when conducting research.Maintaining awareness of threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures to appropriately assess quality and credibility of operators, toolsets, and other offered services.Identifying current and emerging cyber threats and trends, including technical information.What You'll Need:
Required:Experience using project management tools such as JIRA, as well as experience using message traffic handling systems and databases.Motivated self-starter experienced with a wide variety of underground environments, to include hidden services and forums.Must have experience with the full Intelligence Cycle to include collection, dissemination, and evaluation of raw information.Understanding of technical terminology, slang, tools, and tactics employed by threat actors.Basic to advanced understanding of computer technology, virtual machines, Internet protocols, and services.Comprehensive, practical knowledge of research/collection tradecraft and analytical methods.Comfortable navigating the deep and dark web, leveraging onion search engines, using VPNs, understanding cryptocurrencies and utilizing communication platforms.Preferred:Foreign language skills, particularly reading and writing (ex. Russian, Farsi, multiple dialects of Chinese, Korean, Japanese, etc.).Prior human intelligence experience (HUMINT/Collection Management).#LI-Remote
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