Vulnerability Disclosure Analyst

Are you an experienced cybersecurity professional that enjoys all aspects of vulnerability intelligence, analysis, and collection and wants to be a part of a global team that provides timely, high-quality, and comprehensive vulnerability intelligence to the security market?

As a Vulnerability Disclosure Analyst at Flashpoint, you will get to do all those things, including research and information gathering related to cyber threat intelligence (CTI), vulnerability management, DevSecOps, and vendor risk management.

Trusted by governments, commercial enterprises, and educational institutions worldwide, Flashpoint helps organizations protect their most critical assets, infrastructure, and stakeholders from security risks such as cyber threats, ransomware, fraud, physical threats, and more. Leading security practitioners—including physical and corporate security, cyber threat intelligence (CTI), vulnerability management, and vendor risk management teams—rely on the Flashpoint Intelligence Platform, comprising open source (OSINT) and closed intelligence, to proactively identify and mitigate risk and stay ahead of the evolving threat landscape. Learn more at www.flashpoint.io. 

 

We have a role for you if

• You possess high reading comprehension, attention to detail, and deductive reasoning.
• You have writing skills and an affinity for writing research papers and summarizing complex subjects into short entries.
• You are self-motivated and can work independently and in collaboration with others.
• You have compassion for customer needs and a desire to work in a client-sense business.
• You have some coding experience in one or more languages, such as C/C++, Java, Python, and Ruby, to the level where you can identify vulnerabilities when reading the code.
• You have some experience with vulnerability exploit development and familiarity with security assessment tools and techniques.
• You conducted security testing, vulnerability and network scanning, and penetration testing.
• You understand the concepts of Windows and Linux operating systems, access controls, and privilege levels.
• You are familiar with many widely used web applications, client and server software, and web browsers.

What you will get to do on our team

• Analyze vendor security advisories, research vulnerability reports, mailing lists, product changelogs, news articles, bug trackers, commits, exploits, and many other sources to identify issues that constitute legitimate vulnerabilities (sources are provided) in order to author a detailed vulnerability entry based on findings. This task makes up eighty percent of day to day requirements of this role.
• Analyze and review new vulnerabilities for inclusion into the VulnDB product and update existing vulnerability entries with details, references, product information, exploit availability, and solutions. 
• Assist team members during peak activity periods to ensure the timeliness of high-quality data.
• Monitor work queues as needed to maintain balanced workloads and achieve turn-around standards, ensuring data quality. 
• The job would require staying current with the latest security threats, vulnerabilities, and industry best practices. 
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior analysts and serve as a subject matter expert on vulnerabilities to the wider team. 
• Collaborate with other teams such as Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to solve customer challenges, clarify technical content, and be customer-oriented.

What you will achieve 

• Within 30 days
• You will have analyzed and reviewed new vulnerabilities for inclusion into the VulnDB product and update existing vulnerability entries with details, references, product information, exploit availability, and solutions. 

• Within 60 days 
• You will have analyzed vendor security advisories, research vulnerability reports, mailing lists, product changelogs, news articles, bug trackers, commits, exploits, and many other sources to identify issues that constitute legitimate vulnerabilities.

• By 90 days
• Provided mentorship and technical guidance to junior analysts and served as a wider team's subject matter expert. 
• Collaborated with other teams such as Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to solve customer challenges and clarify technical content.

To be successful in this role, you will need

• In-depth knowledge of common security software and hardware vulnerabilities and attack vectors. Deep familiarity with OWASP top 20.
• Understanding of secure coding practices, cryptography, an