Security Analyst

Description

 

Summary: The Security Analyst is responsible for monitoring and protecting the organization’s environments, applications, services, endpoints, and networks. This role involves setting and deploying policies, evaluating compliance, monitoring events, investigating incidents, and responding to vulnerabilities and security threats. The Security Analyst plays a crucial role in safeguarding sensitive data, maintaining data privacy compliance, and preventing cyber-attacks.

Job Functions:

• Managing access control policies: Establishing, managing, and monitoring authentication methods, conditional access policies, risk policies, permissions, and monitoring onboarding/offboarding procedures across the organization.
• Managing endpoints: Overseeing our device management policies including secure configurations, patch management, antivirus, and security agent configuration and reporting. Responsible for monitoring and reporting compliance across the organization and responding to vulnerabilities, threats, and cyber activity.
• Monitoring and managing security alerts: Reviewing alerts generated by various security systems and tools, investigating alerts, generating security incident reports, optimizing alerts to avoid false positives and filter out noise, and reporting alert trends.
• Configuring security tools and technologies: Configure and manage the various tools used for device management, antivirus, SIEM, and intrusion detection and response.
• Administrating security and compliance training: Identifying or creating security training material to deploy to the organization, scheduling and monitoring training activities, generating training reports for evidence collection.
• Providing support to end users: Responding to questions from end users and help desk team on security technology, troubleshooting problems related to deployment and management of security tools in cloud resources and endpoints.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• 3 to 5 years of experience
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, cybersecurity, information security, or a related field.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• CISSP, CISA, CISM, or other relevant certifications are preferred.
• Cellphone or personal device to receive MFA (multi-factor authentication) texts or calls.
• Have an internet connection that’s adequate for their job, a minimum of 10Mbps down.
• Must reside within the United State and not require any type of visa sponsorship

Salary Description $80k - $90