SECURITY OPERATIONS ANALYST

Description

 

Title: SECURITY OPERATIONS ANALYST

Location: Washington DC 

Requirements

 

The contractor must provide a senior security analyst who will perform activities as follows with minimal supervision and guidance:

a. Perform all security analysis activities according to established standards.

b. Maintain threat awareness and monitor NIGC information systems for exploits and any suspicious activities; analyze aggregated logs and reports from security tools.

c. Develop a daily security analysis and reporting checklist and execute activities identified in the checklist.

d. Evaluate ethe ffectiveness of security analysis activities compared to best practices and recommend improvements.

e. Adhere to Continuous Monitoring practices to evaluate the effectiveness of implemented security controls and execute proactive threat hunting activities to ensure confidentiality,

integrity, and availability of NIGC information systems.

f. Develop detection and response configuration policies to increase automation and alerting.

g. Develop Incident handling procedures.

h. Execute Incident Response activities to include all associated actions according to the NIGC incident response plan.

i. Validate that sufficient and relevant information is captured and retained from security tools to support actionable security awareness and incident investigations

j. Collect security operations performance and NIGC security posture management metrics and prepare NIGC threat reports to inform risk management decisions