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As part of a subcontract supporting a critical customer, the candidate will perform assessments of systems and networks to identify deviations from acceptable configurations, enclave policy, or local policy, while evaluating incident response procedures and capabilities. Responsibilities include exploiting system and network vulnerabilities to gather data from target systems. 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