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Chenega MIOS SBU is a company that supports large-scale government operations through advanced technology solutions. They are seeking a Junior Cyber Defense Analyst who will utilize various cyber defense tools to analyze events and mitigate threats within their environments.

Responsibilities:

• Provide timely detection, identification, and alerting of possible attacks/intrusions, anomalous activities, and misuse activities, and distinguish these incidents and events from benign activities.

• Use cyber defense tools for continual monitoring and analysis of systems to identify malicious activity.

• Document and escalate incidents, including the event's history, status, and potential impact for further action that may cause ongoing and immediate impact on the environment.

• Analyze identified malicious activity to determine weaknesses exploited, exploitation methods, and effects on the system and information.

• Perform event correlation using information gathered from a variety of sources within the enterprise to gain situational awareness and determine the effectiveness of an observed attack.

• Conduct research, analysis, and correlation across a wide variety of source data sets (indications and warnings).

• Receive and analyze network alerts from various sources within the enterprise and determine possible causes of such alerts.

• Perform cyber defense trend analysis and reporting.

• Characterize and analyze network traffic to identify anomalous activity and potential threats to network resources.

• Coordinate with enterprise-wide cyber defense staff to validate network alerts.

• Identify and analyze anomalies in network traffic using metadata.

• Provide daily summary reports of network events and activity relevant to cyber defense practices.

• Identify applications and operating systems of a network device based on network traffic.

• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Required:

• High school diploma or GED equivalent

• 3+ years of experience in incident response and/or breach response

• Must be a U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain Top Secret Clearance

• Must be able to pass a Criminal and Financial Background Check prior to start

• Knowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies.

• Knowledge of risk management processes (e.g., methods for assessing and mitigating risk).

• Knowledge of intrusion detection methodologies and techniques for detecting host and network-based intrusions.

• Knowledge of Intrusion Detection System (IDS)/Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) tools and applications.

• Skill in collecting data from a variety of cyber defense resources.

• Knowledge of network traffic analysis methods.

• Knowledge of cyber attackers (e.g., script kiddies, insider threat, non-nation state-sponsored, and nation-sponsored).

• Knowledge of cyber defense and vulnerability assessment tools and their capabilities.

• Knowledge of what constitutes a network attack and a network attack's relationship to both threats and vulnerabilities.

• Knowledge of how to use network analysis tools to identify vulnerabilities.

• Skill in recognizing and categorizing types of vulnerabilities and associated attacks.

• Skill in performing packet-level analysis

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity or a related discipline preferred

• CompTIA Security +, ISC(2) SSCP, or similar level certification preferred

Company:

Chenega Corporation's MIOS Strategic Business Unit (SBU) provides innovative solutions for federal, DOD, and commercial customers around the globe. Founded in 2010, the company is headquartered in Lorton, VA, US, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.

Seniority level

• Seniority levelEntry level

Employment type

• Employment typeFull-time

Job function

• IndustriesSoftware Development

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