Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.Practice Overview Ankura’s Cybersecurity Practice offers a full-service suite of information security and privacy solutions for clients, regardless of industry or size. We provide proactive preparedness, incident response, cyber resilience, and managed advisory services customized to clients’ requirements. The Cyber team is composed of leaders from the intelligence community, including former FBI and CIA personnel, private security firms, and pioneering technology companies. Our experts assess cyber risk and readiness, test and harden clients’ infrastructure, and respond instantly and decisively when threats arise. We regularly advise boards of directors, members of the C-suite, general counsel, outside counsel, IT leaders, and other stakeholders at all stages of any cyber incident. Role Overview Our Cybersecurity practice is a rapidly growing part of the Data & Technology segment of our business. Our professionals help our clients address their critical information security challenges, including incident investigation/response, as well as assessing and reducing information security risks. This role is Remote, located in the United States. Responsibilities
Participate in security incident investigations that involve computer crimes and require log, forensic, and malware analysis
Collect and analyze triage data, intrusion detection system alerts, firewall logs, network traffic logs, and host system logs to evaluate whether unauthorized access or information ex-filtration occurred
Perform forensic analyses to identify the presence of any malware, malware capabilities/actions, and what actions the malware took
Conduct security investigations in Linux, Apple, and/or Windows environments
Provide input into client communications, both written and oral, related to analyses performed for senior-level review
Qualifications
Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science/Cyber Security /MSIS or equivalent work experience
Experience working ransomware and BEC investigations
Approximately 2 - 5 years of experience working in the Incident Response space
Knowledge of malware reverse analysis utilizing leading industry toolsets.
Ability to conduct analysis of artifacts, disk images and perform memory forensics during incident response.
Understanding of how to communicate effectively and concisely with legal counsel, high-level management, and C-suite clients
Ability to approach and prioritize projects both from a long-range and immediate view
Experience working with non-Windows programs (such as Linux, Unix, Mac)
Comfortable/Experienced conducting command-line operations and utilizing scripts such as Python, PowerShell, Perl, or Bash
Strong desire to work on a team in a collaborative environment to achieve common goals
Preference is given to candidates with certifications such as CFCE, CCE, GCFE, GCFA, GCIH, GREM
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