Company Description MindPoint Group delivers industry-leading cybersecurity solutions, services, and products. We are trusted cybersecurity advisors to key government and commercial decision-makers and support security operations for some of the most security-conscious organizations globally. Our relationship with you is for the long run because your success is our success. We invest in your success through fantastic benefits (healthcare, generous PTO, paid parental leave, and tuition reimbursement, to name a few). Beyond just excellent pay and benefits, you’ll want to work here for reasons that can’t be written into an offer letter—the challenge, growth opportunities, and most important: the culture of a company that cares about you. A position at MPG promises you • A diverse organization • A safe workplace with zero tolerance for discrimination or harassment of any kind • A balanced work life. Seriously. • A stable, established, and growing business • A leadership team focused on your professional growth and development Job Description MindPoint Group is seeking an Incident Response Analyst to support threat monitoring, detection, event analysis, and incident reporting. The Security Operations Center is a 24/7 environment. You will be responsible for monitoring enterprise networks and systems, detecting events, and reporting on any and all threats that are directed against those systems regardless of their classification level or type. You will be expected to collaborate with leadership to develop metrics based on situational awareness and threat monitoring at an enterprise level that will be reported based on the approved plan and supporting checklists. You must be able to rapidly address security. Typically, the client’s sensor grid acquires millions of events per day and events are analyzed and categorized in accordance with the Cyber Security Incident Response Plan. The Incident Response Analyst will provide the client with a fully comprehensive array of analytical activities in support of external threat monitoring, detection, event analysis, and incident reporting efforts including presentation reviews, internal and external threat reporting, analysis of inbound and outbound public internet traffic, suspicious e-mail messages, administering access request to specific public sites, communicating and coordinating the characterization of events and the response. What you get to do every day: • Provide support for complex computer network exploitation and defense techniques to include deterring, identifying, and investigating computer and network intrusions; providing incident response and remediation support; • Perform comprehensive computer surveillance/monitoring, identifying vulnerabilities; developing secure network designs and protection strategies, and audits of information security infrastructure. • Provide technical support for continuous monitoring, computer exploitation and reconnaissance; target mapping and profiling; and, network decoy and deception operations in support of computer intrusion defense operations. • Provide technical support for forensics services to include evidence seizure, computer forensic analysis, and data recovery, in support of computer crime investigation. • Research and maintain proficiency in open and closed source computer exploitation tools, attack techniques, procedures, and trends. • Perform research into emerging threat sources and develops threat profiles. • Provide technical support for a comprehensive risk management program identifying mission-critical processes and systems; current and projected threats; and system vulnerabilities. Qualifications • Active Secret clearance required* • Shift 2 time: 6AM - 2PM* What skills do you need? • Minimum of six (6) years of general work experience and three (3) years of relevant experience in functional responsibility • Bachelor’s Degree, or an equivalent combination of formal education, experience • Experience in the following tools: • ArcSight SIEM • Splunk • RSA Netwitness • FireEye • Sourcefire (Snort) • Bro IDS • Fidelis XPS • HB Gary Active Defense • Strong analytical and organizational skills • Concise writing skills, excellent MS Word skills as well as other MS Office Applications What is ideal? • Experience with securing various environments preferred • Experience working a SOC and doing incident response is preferred • Experience and education preferred in CEH, eCPPT, OSCP, GCFW, GCIH, other relevant IT security certifications, or advanced vendor certifications such as Splunk Certified Architect or SourceFire Certified Administrator; Security+, Network+, GSEC, or other relevant IT security product certifications such as Tenable Certified Nessus Auditor, ArcSite Certified Systems Analyst, or SnortCP CISSP, CISM, or ISO 27001 Shift: • This role will be Monday through Friday from 6 AM to 2 PM EST. Location: • This role is currently teleworking but that is subject to change in the future based on client demands