Digital Forensic
ApexonAbout the role
About Apexon:
Apexon is a digital-first technology services firm specializing in accelerating business transformation and delivering human-centric digital experiences. We have been meeting customers wherever they are in the digital lifecycle and helping them outperform their competition through speed and innovation.
Apexon brings together distinct core competencies – in AI, analytics, app development, cloud, commerce, CX, data, DevOps, IoT, mobile, quality engineering and UX, and our deep expertise in BFSI, healthcare, and life sciences – to help businesses capitalize on the unlimited opportunities digital offers. Our reputation is built on a comprehensive suite of engineering services, a dedication to solving clients’ toughest technology problems, and a commitment to continuous improvement.
Backed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Everstone Capital, Apexon now has a global presence of 15 offices (and 10 delivery centers) across four continents.
We enable #HumanFirstDIGITAL
Role Description:
We are seeking a Digital Forensics Analyst. The role will work closely with Government counterparts to provide support in cybersecurity incident response, mitigation, analysis, & information dissemination. Provide systems, and network forensic investigation support for the Security Operations Center (SOC) activities. Work as a Digital Forensics Analyst within the State of Maryland DoIT Office of Security Management & responsible for maintaining the integrity of the cybersecurity related analysis. This role will be responsible for performing the following tasks:
You’ll be responsible for (Responsibilities):
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- Report to Director of Security Operations or his/her designee
- Provide Tier 3 escalation support
- Plan, initiate, and conduct investigations for cybersecurity incidents response efforts
- Perform forensic examinations on compromised systems
- Understand and use forensic tools and techniques for cybersecurity incidents
- Create forensic root cause and scope of impact analysis reports
- Contribute to technical briefings on the details of forensics exams and report
- Provide support in conducting malware analysis of attacker tools
- Stay current on incident response and digital forensics skills, best practices, and tools
- Train Jr. Analysts on usage of SIEM tools (Splunk), and basic event analysis
- Develop rules and tune SIEM and related tools to streamline the event analysis process
- Assist developing new processes and procedures for security monitoring
- Monitor networks for threats from external and internal sources
- Analyze network traffic of compromised systems and networks
- Correlate actionable security events from various sources
- Review threat data and develop custom detection signatures
- Gather and analyze threat intelligence data and conduct threat hunting
- Understand cybersecurity attacks and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) associated with advanced threats
- Communicate clearly with Government counterparts, and SOC customers
- Development and implementation and operational and technical incident response processes, procedure, guidance, and standards
- Ability to work outside of regular business hours, the role may require on-call support after regular business hours or weekends.
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related scientific or technical discipline and 4+ years of experience. Associate degree and/or cyber courses/certifications or 5 years of experience in directly related fields may be substituted in lieu of bachelor’s degree
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