Threat Defense Analyst L2

The Fortified Threat Defense Center provides 24x7x365 managed security services for healthcare customers. Members of the Threat Defense team are responsible for monitoring and alerting on key security technologies within each customer environment, identifying security events, performing analysis, creating new and tuning existing detection rules, and integrating with client’s incident response activities. In this role, the Threat Analyst 2 will monitor, detect, analyze, and report on security alerts discovered within Fortified Health Security’s customer infrastructures.

The Threat Analyst 2 will monitor various security technologies within these environments and report all investigated and validated findings to the proper customer in accordance with the approved communication plan.

The following duties are normal for this position. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from being expected of this position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment for this position. Other duties may be required.

• Partner with clients on service delivery execution of all LOBs including but not limitedto:
• Managed SIEM,Phishing, EDR, IoMT, & DLP
• Perform and document initialincident investigations.
• Present alerts,metrics, and remediation tasks to customers via approved communication plans.
• Work with associates to continually improvesecurity services through product tuning and maturity.
• Proactively and iteratively search through logs to detect advancedthreats that are unknownto the current security solutions.
• Exercise high-level multi-tasking skills by managing events in multiple systems, applications, and other priorities.
• Respond to incidents and client inquirestimely and professionally.
• Generate end-of-shift reports for documentation and knowledge transfer to subsequent analystson duty.
• Remain up to date on latestsecurity threats and events.
• Monitor the “health” of key technologies during their shift.
• Intermediate/Advanced level understanding of the following subject matters:
• Incident Response,Analytical Intelligence, Playbook Management, Relationship Management, Technical Presentation, Detection& Suppression Rule Management, Scripting (Python, Bash, Power Shell), Compliance Frameworks (NIST,HIPAA, HITRUST, PCI)
• Advanced level understanding of the following subject matters:
• Attack Frameworks, Troubleshooting & Root Cause Analysis, Advanced Documentation, Emotional Intelligence, Written and Verbal Communication, Security Platform Health Management, Security Platform Log Analysis, Linux OS & Events, WindowsOS & Events,Healthcare Operational Knowledge, Endpoint Security Knowledge, Tools, & Best Practices, User Security Knowledge, Tools, & Best Practices, Network Security Knowledge, Tools, & Best Practices, Cloud Security Knowledge, Tools, & Best Practices, Data Security Knowledge, Tools,& Best Practices
• Fluent with intrusion detection/prevention systems,firewalls, endpoint detection & response systems,anti-virus systems, DLP, vulnerability management, creating and managing phishing campaigns, and cloud infrastructure.
• Solid understanding of network security concepts and defensein depth.
• Knowledge of security incidentand event management (SIEM), log analysis,network traffic analysis,malware investigation/remediation, SIEM correlation logic and alert generation.
• Demonstrated abilityto analyze, triageand remediate security incidents.
• Advanced knowledge of current threat landscape (threat actors,APT, cyber-crime, etc.).
• Solid understanding of OSI model, network protocols and information security concepts.

• 2+ years of direct
  
  InfoSec experience and/oran Associate’s degree in CS / MIS preferred.
• 2+ years hands on experience with security…