Principal Consultant: DFIR

About the Role:

The Principal Incident Response Consultant will respond to our customer’s major information security incidents, as the lead responder or incident handler. Drawing additional resources from our technical consulting teams, the Principal will build and lead teams for the purpose of responding to and remediating active client threats. As a primary interface to customers in crisis, the Principal will have excellent communication and organizational skills, ensuring the efficient and smooth handling of incidents. The Principal will be highly skilled in collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Act as a lead responder on high profile and sensitive customer engagements.

• Performing incident triage, to include determining scope, urgency, and potential impact, identifying the specific vulnerability, and making recommendations that enable expeditious remediation

• Be involved in the full incident response lifecycle, from preparation for information security incidents, through detecting, managing, and resolving ongoing incidents, and finally reporting on those incidents and identifying improvements and lessons learned.

• Collect, triage, and analyze forensic artifacts from client networks or devices in support of incident response investigations

• Utilize various EDRs or log collection platforms to conduct large-scale investigations and examine endpoint and network-based sources of evidence.

• Communicate with customer in a clear and precise manner throughout all phases of an incident, including verbal and written reports.

• Assist with developing, operating, and continuously improving the Cyderes Incident Response services.

• Train, develop, coach, and supervise junior and ad-hoc responders.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in professional services or information security field with at least 3 of those years in Incident Response

• Holds an industry accepted certification validating digital forensics or incident response capabilities: GCIH, GCFA, GCFE, CFCE, GREM, EnCE, CCE, or similar

• Experience communicating complex technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Experience coordinating an incident and/or leading a team during an incident

• Experience investigating Windows, Linux, MacOS, and cloud environments

• Demonstrated experience and competence in endpoint forensics, memory forensics, network forensics, and malware analysis, with specialized knowledge in at least one of those fields using tools such as Axiom, FTK, X-Ways, etc.

• Experience identifying indicators of compromise and threat actor activity using a hypothesis-driven approach to uncover connections and correlations in data

• Applied knowledge of the Incident Response Lifecycle, the Cyber Kill Chain, and the MITRE ATT&CK Framework.

• Strong client facing communication (report issues to customer in a timely manner, demonstrate expertise of the overall business unit and command of the incident, develop presentations to highlight results and solutions, etc.)

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline

• Experience working with network and security technologies to include Elasticsearch, data analytic platforms, endpoint tools, network technologies, and SIEMs

• Proficiency with common programming or scripting languages such as Python and PowerShell

• Ability to preserve host-based and network evidence in an industry accepted and forensically sound manner

• Experience with project management to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives

• Ability to learn new technology and concepts quickly

• Effective in collaboration with teams in remote locations

The following will be considered an asset:

• Certifications such as CISSP, OSCP, ITIL, COBiT, or SABSA

• Working knowledge of NIST SP800-61r2 and ISO 27035

• Knowledge of ISO information security standard families, particularly ISO 27001 and 27002