Job Description
Requires a Top Secret / SCI clearance and U.S. Citizenship
The CDNA uses information collected from a variety of sources to monitor network activity and
analyze it for evidence of suspicious behavior. Monitoring and analysis are performed to identify
and report events that occur, or might occur, within the network, in order to protect information,
information systems, and networks from threats.
- Characterize and analyze network traffic to identify anomalous activity and potential threats to network resources.
- Coordinate with enterprise-wide cyber defense staff to validate network alerts.
- Document and escalate incidents (including event's history, status, and potential impact for further action) that may cause ongoing and immediate impact to the environment.
- Perform cyber defense trend analysis and reporting.
- Perform event correlation using information gathered from a variety of sources within the enterprise to gain situational awareness and determine the effectiveness of an observed attack.
- Provide daily summary reports of network events and activity relevant to cyber defense practices.
- Receive and analyze network alerts from various sources within the enterprise and determine possible causes of alerts.
- Provide timely detection, identification, and alerting of possible attacks / intrusions, anomalous activities, and misuse activities and distinguish these incidents and events from benign activities.
- Use cyber defense tools for continual monitoring and analysis of system activity to identify malicious activity.
- Analyze identified malicious activity to determine weaknesses exploited, exploitation methods, effects on system and information.
- Identify and analyze anomalies in network traffic using metadata.
- Validate intrusion detection system (IDS) alerts against network traffic using packet analysis tools.
- Identify applications and operating systems of a network device based on network traffic.
- Reconstruct a malicious attack or activity based off network traffic.
- Identify network mapping and operating system (OS) fingerprinting activities.
- Assist in the construction of signatures which can be implemented on cyber defense network tools in response to new or observed threats within the network environment or enclave.
Basic Qualifications :
- U.S. Citizenship
- Active TS / SCI clearance
- Ability to obtain Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Entry on Duty (EOD) Suitability
- 8+ years of direct relevant experience in cyber defense analysis using leading edge technologies and industry standard cyber defense tools.
- BS Computer Science, Cyber Security, Computer Engineering, or related degree; or HS Diploma
10 years of network investigations experience
- Experience successfully developing and deploying signatures.
- Experience detecting host and network-based intrusions via intrusion detection technologies.
e.g., Snort)
- Experience implementing incident handling methodologies.
- Experience implementing protocol analyzers.
- Experience collecting data from a variety of cyber defense resources.
- Experience reading and interpreting signatures (e.g., snort)
- Experience performing packet-level analysis.
- Experience conducting trend analysis.
Desired Qualifications :
- Python programming experience
- Strong math and science background
- Experience with Carnegie Mellon SiLK tool suite
- One or more of the following professional certifications : GNFA, GCIH, GCIA, GSEC,
CASP+, CySA+, PaLMS, FedVTE
GSEC (SANS401), Arcsight (or other SEIM solution), Network+, Security+
About Farfield Systems
Farfield was founded in 2002 by a Marine Corps veteran to provide enterprise and mission support to government customers in Defense and the Intelligence community.
We pride ourselves on doing work that matters for our customers' most important missions. From the start, we put our team members first and, over the years, made many changes to better serve them.
In turn, they have made our customers truly happy. Isn't that the way it's supposed to work? That's what we mean by employee driven customer focused.
That simple phrase defines our culture and our core values.
Farfield has hung on to the scrappy attitude of a startup. We use that energy to deliver the full capabilities of our exceptional team.
We keep a focus on our core capabilities and never stop improving the value we deliver to our customers.
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