Digital Forensics and Incident Response, Senior Consultant DFIR

Description As an experienced and senior member of the London DFIR team, you will be integral to the wider EMEA practice, and in turn part of a global practice offering and influencing the direction of our forensic investigation and cyber incident response capability. The Discovery & Data Insights is the hub of all technical consulting. As part of the team you will be able to assist and provide consultative solutions for other work streams such as forensic investigations, eDiscovery and data analytics.

Our clients include Law Firms, Fortune 500 multi-nationals, and Government/Law Enforcement across the globe. As Senior Consultant you will be expected to work closely with teams across regions and to develop positive and constructive relationships with Control Risks’ dedicated Cyber Response practice as well as the wider Discovery & Data Insights team. Your behaviour and positive decision making will inspire confidence and maintain integrity in our clients and colleagues.

The role will require you to exhibit technical excellence and an acute sensitivity to our clients’ needs and expectations. Your will leverage your skills and experience in providing innovative solutions and develop agile operating standards. You will promote yourself and the technical consulting services to take them out to market as a recognised subject matter expert.

Day to day, you will be on-call for matters that arise on short notice and there will be a need to deploy and support crises. As the technical lead for engagements, you will provide quality assured, highly responsive forensic incident management. You will ensure delivery of services and work product to meet and exceed our clients’ expectations and company  order to be successful, the candidate will have:
Proven skills investigating a cyber incident requiring a forensic response. A clear understanding of the emerging trends and response capabilities in the forensic cyber industry. Demonstrated experience handling client crisis situations effectively. Tasks and Responsibilities Manage and provide forensic/incident response consultancy and expertise in data collections, investigative/analysis & cyber security services to our clients

Support our teams in Cyber, Investigations and Technical Consulting across regions

To provide high quality deliverables to our clients in a timely and efficient manner

To ensure work is defensible and to an evidential standard as appropriate for tasks

To be innovative and creative showing initiative in bringing teams together

To anticipate client needs and continually strive for ways to work efficiently

To respond to potential enquiries and convert these into sales leads and proposals

To actively engage in business development and marketing

Must be available for international travel (up to 25% of time) Requirements Knowledge and Experience Essential Extensive professional and technology experience, preferably in cyber risk consulting, forensic investigations, financial crime or compliance setting.

Proven knowledge and technical computer forensics experience for cyber incident response and investigations.

Thorough understanding of best practice procedures (NPCC, NIST, SANS etc.) evidence handling, computer systems and tools of the trade

Thorough understanding of both the MITRE ATT&CK and Cyber Kill chain framework, network topology and EDR solutions

Expert understanding of multiple operating systems, particularly Microsoft and Linux infrastructure and networking systems, both on-premise and in the cloud, as well as dedicated cloud services such as Office 365, Azure, AWS Expertise in Power Shell scripting, Bash scripts, Python, SQL and data wrangling for log analysis

Familiarity with forensic software tools such as EnCase, Nuix, Axiom, Blackbag and forensic hardware tools.

Familiarity with open source tools and leveraging commercial tools for forensic use.

Established track record for performing forensic collections, involvement in incident response and digital investigations alongside maintaining detailed contemporaneous notes

Able to prepare written analyses, summary reports, presentations and other client deliverables for projects and work performed.

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