Cyber Intelligence, Lead Associate

Responsibilities

The selected candidate will serve Program Analyst/Cyber Threat Analyst at the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center utilize using their experience, knowledge, and analytical skills to support the Department of Defense (Research and Engineering)(OSD(R&E)) Joint Acquisition Protection and Exploitation Cell(JAPEC) effort. - Assist in Identifying critical acquisition programs and technologies requiring elevated protection. Support the implementation of advanced protection mechanisms within and across programs and technologies. Support assessment of vulnerabilities associated with known losses. The candidate will perform analytical research in a team environment focused on cyber threat actors/activity, author and review intelligence products by applying technical expertise, while also consulting and making recommendations for new solutions to cyber analytical issues as needed.

 

Additionally, the candidate will be expected to collaborate with analysts across all DC3 directorates, task force analysts and JAPEC stakeholders outside of DC3, various other Intelligence Community agencies, and other Defense Criminal Investigative Organizations (AFOSI, CID, DCIS) on a regular basis. To integrate existing intelligence community (IC), law enforcement (LE), counterintelligence (CI) and acquisition community data, analysis, processes, and tools in order to develop courses of action that address consequences as well as support the prevention and mitigation of losses of unclassified controlled technical information (CTI).

 

The candidate will rely heavily on their experience serving in past intelligence analyst roles in DoD, Computer Network Operations, Law Enforcement/Counterintelligence, or Intelligence Community mission focused organizations. The selected candidate should have the experience writing documents up to 30 pages in length.

Qualifications

Strong proficiency in report writing

 

Strong knowledge of general intelligence analysis principles governing the collection and evaluation of raw intelligence as well as the production and publication of finished intelligence.

 

Strong knowledge of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) principles to include indicators of compromise (IOC) types, indicator pivoting and indicator attribution strength.

 

Strong or Intermediate ability to apply formal intelligence analysis methods, develop hypothesis, prove/disprove relationships, always ask why, defend your analysis, and apply attribution to cyber threat activity.

 

Candidate must be able to make confidence-based assessments for purposes of attribution based on their technical analysis of network traffic, multi-source data, malware and system forensic/supply chain analysis.

 

Candidate must be able to identify analytic bias.

 

Strong ability to conduct Incident Report Analysis on incidents reported under applicable DFARS procedures;

 

Strong familiarity with the damage assessment process, specifically regarding data compromised as a result of adversary intrusions into contractor networks.

 

Strong ability to present technical information and analysis to groups (Candidate will be required to brief up to 50 persons on a quarterly basis and smaller groups of up to 10 persons on a weekly basis)

BS 2-4 Years, MS 0-2 or HS 8-10

 

Peraton Overview

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Target Salary Range

$112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.