Insider Threat Analyst / Hunt Team (Springfield)

Insider Threat Analyst / Hunt Team

ASRC Federal is seeking experienced Insider Threat Analyst / Hunt Team supporting an Insider Threat Program (ITP) with the Department of Homeland Security. Insider Threat programs proactively identify, prevent and mitigate internal security risks. This exciting cybersecurity opportunity will allow you to put your skills and experience with analysis and leadership to identify insider threats to further the mission of the Insider Threat Program.

Responsibilities :

• Examine, analyze, and search insider threat data to identify trends, patterns, and insights of potential insider threat indicators.
• Provide analytical, program support services related to the operation of UAM / UEBA tool.
• Monitor UAM platform to identify emerging requirements related to insider threat events and coordinate across the enterprise to ensure timely response.
• Conduct further research on the UAM platform to identify patterns of concerning behavior related to a potential insider threat risk to the DHS enterprise.
• Provide proactive insider threat-based hunting across the DHS enterprise network, leveraging methodologies and behavioral analytics to detect, investigate, and mitigate anomalous activity and policy violations indicative of malicious insider behavior.
• Conduct continuous hunt operations across data and log sources, DHS platforms, EDR tools, and network traffic to identify patterns of insider threat behavior.
• Identify mitigation strategies to assist the investigative team in effectively reducing insider threat risk.
• Utilize UEBA (User and Entity Behavior Analytics) platforms and techniques to baseline user activity and detect deviations.
• Provide timely response to critical / high UAM alerts (within 4 hours during normal business hours and provide after-hour support). Normal business hours will be defined as 6am to 10pm Monday - Friday excluding weekends and scheduled holidays. Implement corrective actions to restore normal operations and prevent recurrence. This position is expected to eventually move to shift work to meet the requirement of 24x7 operations at an undetermined later date.

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ASRC Federal and its Subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, gender, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, religion, marital status, ancestry, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other factor prohibited by applicable law.