Forensics - Discovery Digital Forensics Senior - San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, Irvine

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Location: San Francisco, San Jose, Irvin, Los Angeles

 

 

As digital threats continue to evolve and threaten businesses large and small, bad actors are improving their tactics, techniques and procedures faster than corporate security teams can keep up. Increasingly organized and collaborative, their methods grow more sophisticated each year. Our clients continually look to EY for our knowledge and resources to assist with their Digital Investigations & Privacy needs.

 

The opportunity                                     

Our Forensic & Integrity Services (Forensics) team is experiencing rapid growth, and as a Digital Investigations & Privacy Senior you’ll be a key part of that growth. Working with companies across all industries, you’ll develop your career by communicating creative solutions for the client’s specific needs.  This opportunity is for team-oriented individuals who want to continually learn, research new technologies or investigation methodologies and develop new skills to drive innovation as part of a continually evolving service offering.

 

Your key responsibilities

The nature of this role means no two projects will be the same. You will balance your time between directly liaising with our clients to understand their situation and create an appropriate investigation plan to performing technical review and analysis of data. This will include investigating what happened and helping the client to determine the potential impact and how the company’s data was potentially misused.  You will be helping clients assess and resolve insider threats on an ongoing basis for multiple clients at a time. That means thinking differently about the type of data misuse, identifying malicious insiders, improving the client’s data integrity, investigation methodology and mitigate privacy risks.

 

Skills and attributes for success

• Desire to constantly develop your understanding of our clients’ industries, identifying trends, risks and opportunities for improvement
• Understanding of multiple technologies to distribute your knowledge of leading-practices to enhance service delivery
• Ability to develop your team through constant coaching and feedback, knowledge and opportunities to grow
• Experience in large scale, complex investigations, using techniques such as digital forensics, log analysis and timeline creation have been applied
• Ability to communicate technical events and analysis to both technical and nontechnical audiences and an understanding of the potential legal impacts
• Ability to preserve network and host-based digital evidence in an industry accepted forensically sound manner
• Experience performing host-based digital forensics on Microsoft Windows and Mac based systems using both Windows and Linux based forensic tools
• Experience performing mobile-based digital forensics on Apple and Android based systems

To qualify for the role you must have

• A bachelor’s degree, supported by approximately 3 years relevant work experience
• Achieved, or be working towards a professional designation, such as EnCE, CCE, CCFP, GCFA, GASF, GCFE, CFCE, CCME, GREM, etc
• Excellent project management and documentation skills with the ability to prioritize when working on multiple engagements
• The ability to travel to client locations or work extended hours when necessary in order to respond to client events

Ideally, you’ll also have

• In-depth understanding of computer forensic principles including digital and mo