Incident Response and Forensic Investigation Specialist; DFIR

Help AG is looking for a talented and experienced Incident Response and Forensic Investigation Specialist who will be responsible for off-site and on-site Incident Response activities and customer engagements, leveraging multiple security technologies, guiding and leading customers in the handling of Security Incidents and examining IT and security systems using best-practice digital forensic methods to detect, validate and mitigate IT security related incidents.

He / She will join our Cyber Defence team within our Managed Security Services (MSS) business unit. If you have a strong knowledge and interest in incident response and/or digital forensics, this position might be the right one for you.

Responsibilities:

• Lead incident response engagements in unknown environments until all threats are remediated.

• Develop custom incident response plans tied to specific environments and customer situations.

• Examinate and analyse logs/data from a broad variety of security technologies, such as Antiviruses, IDS/IPS, Firewalls, Switches, VPNs and other security threat data sources.

• Perform forensic analysis of different artifacts including RAM, packet captures, logs and disk images.

• Reverse engineer malicious software and develop signatures and indicators of compromise.

• Actively develop incident response tools, scripts, and various detection content.

• Research Red Team techniques, develop custom detection queries, rules, watchlists and other content, and conduct threat hunts.

• Articulate and execute common Incident Response methods (e.g. SANS).

• Respond to inbound requests via phone and other electronic means for technical assistance with managed services.

• Work on-site as required with clients during Live Security Incidents.

• Maintain a high degree of awareness of the current threat landscape.

• Champion excellence and support others in delivering it through active knowledge sharing with team members, writing technical articles for internal knowledge bases, blog posts and reports as required or requested.

• Create and present customer reports to ensure quality, accuracy and value to the client.

• Educate and train other Analysts in execution of Incident Response processes and forensic analysis techniques.

• Perform other essential duties as assigned.

Qualifications & Skills:

• A Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering or a closely related degree.

• 7+ years of experience in information security, in areas such as security operations, intrusion detection, incident analysis, incident handling, log analysis, malware analysis, reverse engineering or threat detection.

• At least 2-3 years of experience as a Senior or Lead Analyst, or equivalent experience guiding, mentoring and teaching other Analysts/Security Professionals how to handle Security Incidents.

• Strong background or equivalent experience in four of the following:
  Security Threat and Event Analysis, Network Security Operations or Engineering, Reverse Engineering, Malware Analysis, Windows/Linux/OSX Forensics, Penetration Testing, Active Directory and Azure Administration.

• Demonstrate experience in handling Incident Response engagements (APTs and Ransomware) using the SANS Incident Response method (or similar).

• CISSP, GCIA, GCIH, GCFA, GCFE, GREM, OSCP certification would be preferable.

• Deep TCP/IP knowledge, networking and security product experience.

• Strong knowledge of Red Team tactics and ability to find adversary traces on Enterprise scale.

• Rapid development in scripting languages:
  Python/Power Shell /Bash.

• A sound knowledge of IT security best practices, common attack types and detection/prevention methods.

• Demonstrable experience in accountability for and applying the methods of Incident Response, including adherence to process and direct engagement with stakeholders.

• Demonstrable experience in analysing and interpreting system, security and application logs.

• Broad knowledge of the type of events that Firewalls, IDS/IPS and other security related devices produce.

• Demonstrable experience in the use of Digital Forensics tools, techniques and concepts including creating and using custom tools and scripts.

• Static reverse engineering and analysis of malware…