TD-108-115-Active Cyber Defense Analyst

ESF LCAT: Information Engineer - Level II

IT 70 LCAT: Enterprise Solutions Engineer IV

Years of Experience: 8 & Masters/ 10 & BS/BA/ 12 & AA

Education Requirements: See above

Required Certifications: 1 of the following:

CERT Certified Computer Security Incident Handler
Electronic Commerce Council Certified Ethical Hacker (ECC)
GIAC Information Security Fundamentals (GISF)
ISC2 Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP)

Preferred Certifications: OSCP, CSSLP, GIAC (GPEN), GIAC (GWAPT), GIAC (GXPN), GIAC (GMOB), GIAC (GAWN), GIAC (GPYC), etc.

CFSR

CCNP, MCSE, RHCE

Position Description: The ACD Analyst will look through network flow, PCAP, logs, and sensors for evidence of cyber-attack patterns, hunt for Advanced Persistent Threats (APT).

Responsibilities:

Actively hunt for Indicators of Compromise (IOC) and APT Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP) in network and on host.
Find evidence of attack, and attackers actions thereafter.
Work with team to produce effective countermeasures against found evidence. Also, contributes to mitigations for future attacks of a similar nature.
Follow Security Operations Center (SOC) policies, procedures for incident reporting and management. Create a detailed Incident Report (IR) and contribute to lessons learned. .
Analyze infrastructure build sheets, Configuration Management Database (CMDB), NIST 800-53 ATO artifacts, Vulnerability scans, Access Control Lists (ACL), and vendor documentation to thoroughly understand software behaviors and interactions. .
Monitor open source and commercial threat intelligence for IOCs, new vulnerabilities, software weaknesses, and other attacker TTPs.
Study and understand IANA, W3C, IETF and other internet bodies' protocol RFC definitions to understand violations and security weaknesses.
Conduct forensic testing and operational hardening of multiple OS platforms.
Analyze network perimeter data, flow, packet filtering, proxy firewalls, and IPS/IDS to create and implement a concrete plan of action to harden the defensive posture.
Work with SOC shift team to help contain intrusions.
Provides detailed requirements to team security engineers, SIEM specialists, and other team capability developers to provide reusable hunt tactics and techniques for other team analysts.
Provide detailed input to watchlog and provide thorough pass-down.
Generates documentation as required by the US Census.

Desired Experience:

Thorough understanding of network protocol behaviors. Ability to understand netflow and PCAP.
Thorough knowledge of open source tools to visualize PCAP data (Wireshark, TCPDump, etc.).
Detailed knowledge of various forms of social engineering, including the ability to recognize and handle spear-phishing campaigns or other forms of social engineering attacks.
Comprehensive knowledge of Windows and Linux behaviors, logging, vulnerabilities, exploits, and known attacks.
Use of IPSec packet filtering and Windows firewalls with specific application to defense in depth of network based attacks, data corruption, data theft, credential theft, and administrative control.
Red Team/Blue Team experience from a federal agency

Required Skills:

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