Consultant, Threat Hunting

Roles & Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the team and be responsible for the delivery of client engagements, providing updates to the engagement and/or team lead
• Contribute to the project delivery of the Ensign Consulting – Threat Hunting & Response business; aligns with the project schedule for deliverables and milestones; adaptable to the needs and requirements of the engagement; communicates effectively with clients and internal stakeholders;
• Assist in the response to cyber security incidents and providing efforts in determining the criticality of an incident, investigation of incident actions, appropriate containment, and performing mitigation activities;
• Understanding and familiarity with the phases of the Incident Response life cycle of: analysis, containment, eradication, remediation, recovery;
• Ability to perform malware analysis and reverse engineering will be desirable;
• Contributing to the improvements of the incident response and threat hunting processes by taking advantage of the integration with new technologies and capabilities;
• Participating in the program development plan, which includes development of threat hunting hypothesis, and to continually improve IR Playbooks, SOPs alignments and training;
• Participating in the communication and documentation of the hunt results, details of incidents, and creating status reports of tasks performed to stakeholders;
• Staying abreast of the latest information security controls, practices, techniques and capabilities in the marketplace; leading internal skills development activities for information security personnel on the topic of security monitoring and incident response, by providing mentoring and by conducting knowledge sharing sessions;
• Familiarization with industry digital forensics tools and threat hunting platforms;
• Assisting in the preparation and delivery of clear and concise technical & management reports and formal papers (when necessary) on incident findings to the different levels of customer-end stakeholders including the management. This includes making appropriate level presentations to the customer's stakeholders;
• Researching and keeping up-to-date with technological trends in relation to cyber security, threat hunting, and digital forensics;
• Performing other job-related duties as assigned

Requirements:

• at least 3 years of experience with threat hunting, incident response handling, and/or digital forensics investigations
• Experience in consulting, including both internal and client facing experiences
• Ability to obtain a security clearance
• Bachelor's Degree in computer engineering, Computer Science, Cyber Security, Information Security or other equivalents
• Ability to travel 20% of the time

Preferred Skills/Qualities:

• Experience supporting or providing expert witness testimonials
• Experience in data analysis
• Experience in log analysis
• Experience in reverse malware analysis
• Experience with research, technical and business documentation and analysis
• Knowledge of the Singapore Law, Singapore Government regulations and policies
• Ability to demonstrate flexibility, initiative and innovation in dealing with ambiguous, fast-paced situations
• Ability to show proficiency in one or more regional languages and dialects
• Ability to show proficiency in Microsoft Office, Power BI and Tableau
• Ability to show proficiency in Forensic Toolkits, e.g. EnCase Forensics, FTK Forensics, Magnet Forensics and Write Blockers
• Ability to show proficiency in Electronic Discovery solutions, e.g. Relativity, Nuix and EnCase
• Ability to show proficiency in reverse malware engineering tools, e.g. IDA Pro
• Ability to show proficiency in programming and scripting, e.g. Java, .NET Programming, Python & PERL scripting, etc
• Possession of excellent presentation and briefing skills
• Possession of excellent oral and written communication skills
• Professional certifications, including EnCE, GCIH, GCFE, GCFA, GREM, GNFA, GASF, GCTI, CISSP, or other relevant certifications

Tell employers what skills you have

Security Clearance
Tableau
Information Security
Digital Forensics
Reverse Engineering
Program Development
Remediation
.NET
Cyber Security
Incident Investigation
Team Lead
Project Delivery
Power BI
CISSP
Malware Analysis
IDA Pro

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