Senior Cybersecurity Policy Analyst - Clearance Required

MindPoint Group is seeking a dynamic Senior Cybersecurity Policy Analyst to support the Department of Justice on one of our largest clients.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the CISO and Deputy CISO as an expert in the field of information assurance and cybersecurity.
• Represent the Department in working groups and cybersecurity committees that are tackling the government’s current and emerging challenges such as maturing the CDM program, automating the ATO process, and developing and implementing enterprise security services.
• Lead the development of the Department’s program for identifying, protecting, and monitoring its High-Value Assets (HVAs).
• Oversee and manage the day-to-day operation of information systems, including advanced technical assistance.
• Perform control reviews, security audits, evaluations, and risk assessments of sensitive and complex operational systems and facilities and provides recommendations for remediating detected vulnerabilities.
• Conduct application, system, and network security assessments, analyses, authorizations, and evaluations in classified and sensitive environments.
• Develop requirements and specifications for reviewing and approving procurement requests, major systems development activities, telecommunications hardware and software, and hardware and software encryption techniques on the basis of security concerns.
• Broadly assess technology to ensure security vulnerabilities are identified and remediated.
• Analyze and optimize system operation and resource utilization, and perform system capacity planning/analysis while maintaining the security posture.
• Provide Automated Indicator Sharing (AIS) and client network guidance, training, research and recommendations.
• Support specific technical reviews to support non-standard operational requirements and systems, including design, development, and maintenance of unique security assessment security tools and conducting assessments.

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience. Bachelor's Degree may be substituted for 8 additional years of relevant experience.
• Minimum ten (10) years of general experience and eight (8) years of relevant experience in functional responsibility
• Knowledge of:
  • TCP/IP
  • Packet Analysis
  • SIEM Operation
  • Understanding of how exploits work and appear within network traffic
  • Intrusion Detection Technology
  • Understanding of rootkits, exploits, and other types of malware
  • Awareness and understanding of popular attack tools (e.g.. Zeus, Blackhole, Slowloris, LOIC, Cryptolocker, Pony Loader, etc.). Ability to communicate effectively the actual status of an incident, attack, or other cyber issue.