Incident Response Analyst

Check Point Software; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Check Point Software in London seeks a seasoned DFIR/Incident Response expert to lead end-to-end investigations across global deployments. You will analyze Windows forensic artifacts, correlate telemetry, and deliver detailed reports to customers and senior stakeholders. Willingness to on-call and travel is required.

The role emphasizes containment, remediation, and improving incident response plans, with collaboration across multiple teams and geographies.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of cybersecurity experience.
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on DFIR/Incident Response experience investigating confirmed system or enterprise compromises.
• Demonstrated experience conducting forensic investigations to determine:
• Initial access and root cause
• Persistence mechanisms
• Credential compromise
• Privilege escalation
• Lateral movement
• Attacker TTPs
• Scope and impact of compromise
• Hands-on experience analyzing Windows forensic artifacts, endpoint telemetry, event logs, authentication activity, and network evidence.
• Experience responding to complex incidents such as ransomware, identity compromise, malware infections, and enterprise intrusions.
• Ability to independently scope and drive an investigation and develop defensible remediation recommendations.
• Strong experience producing customer-facing incident reports and presenting technical findings clearly.
• Experience developing incident response plans and playbooks.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively during high-severity incidents requiring coordination across multiple teams and geographies.
• Ability to participate in an on-call rotation, including at least one weekend per month.
• Domestic and international travel may be required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and perform end-to-end Incident Response and Digital Forensics investigations, from initial scoping through containment, forensic investigation, remediation, and final reporting.
• Perform forensic analysis of compromised Windows and other enterprise systems to determine initial access, root cause, attacker activity, persistence, lateral movement, scope, and impact.
• Analyze endpoint, operating system, authentication, network, and security telemetry to reconstruct attacker activity and identify indicators of compromise.
• Lead response efforts during complex, large-scale, and global security incidents.
• Perform enterprise-wide compromise assessments to identify affected systems and evidence of malicious activity.
• Develop clear containment, eradication, recovery, and remediation recommendations.
• Produce detailed, high-quality incident investigation reports documenting attack vectors, attacker TTPs, findings, impact, and recommended actions.
• Clearly communicate technical findings and incident status to customer technical teams and senior stakeholders.
• Develop and improve incident response plans, procedures, and playbooks.
• Design realistic cyberattack scenarios and facilitate tabletop exercises.
• Build and maintain forensic and malware-analysis lab environments.
• Collaborate with global incident responders, forensic investigators, security researchers, and customer teams.

Job description

Company Description

At Check Point, what you do matters. Every day, we protect over 100,000 organizations worldwide from increasingly sophisticated cyber and AI-driven threats, securing their AI transformation.
Our prevention-first approach safeguards hybrid networks, cloud environments, digital workspaces, and AI systems, stopping attacks before they happen.
This is where innovation meets real-world impact. You’ll help customers across industries operate with confidence in a rapidly changing digital world, working alongside smart, curious people who take ownership, challenge assumptions, and solve complex problems.
We’re proud to be recognized by TIME, Newsweek, and Forbes for excellence and workplace culture.
What really sets Check Point apart is the opportunity to grow, contribute, and help companies navigate their AI transformation securely.
If you’re excited to work at the forefront of AI-driven security on a global scale, this is the place to do it.

Job Description

• Lead and perform end-to-end Incident Response and Digital Forensics investigations, from initial scoping through containment, forensic investigation, remediation, and final reporting.
• Perform forensic analysis of compromised Windows and other enterprise systems to determine initial access, root cause, attacker activity, persistence, lateral movement, scope, and impact.
• Analyze endpoint, operating system, authentication, network, and security telemetry to reconstruct attacker activity and identify indicators of compromise.
• Lead response efforts during complex, large-scale, and global security incidents.
• Perform enterprise-wide compromise assessments to identify affected systems and evidence of malicious activity.
• Develop clear containment, eradication, recovery, and remediation recommendations.
• Produce detailed, high-quality incident investigation reports documenting attack vectors, attacker TTPs, findings, impact, and recommended actions.
• Clearly communicate technical findings and incident status to customer technical teams and senior stakeholders.
• Develop and improve incident response plans, procedures, and playbooks.
• Design realistic cyberattack scenarios and facilitate tabletop exercises.
• Build and maintain forensic and malware-analysis lab environments.
• Collaborate with global incident responders, forensic investigators, security researchers, and customer teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of cybersecurity experience.
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on DFIR/Incident Response experience investigating confirmed system or enterprise compromises.
• Demonstrated experience conducting forensic investigations to determine:
  • Initial access and root cause
  • Persistence mechanisms
  • Credential compromise
  • Privilege escalation
  • Lateral movement
  • Attacker TTPs
  • Scope and impact of compromise
• Hands-on experience analyzing Windows forensic artifacts, endpoint telemetry, event logs, authentication activity, and network evidence.
• Experience responding to complex incidents such as ransomware, identity compromise, malware infections, and enterprise intrusions.
• Ability to independently scope and drive an investigation and develop defensible remediation recommendations.
• Strong experience producing customer-facing incident reports and presenting technical findings clearly.
• Experience developing incident response plans and playbooks.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively during high-severity incidents requiring coordination across multiple teams and geographies.
• Ability to participate in an on-call rotation, including at least one weekend per month.
• Domestic and international travel may be required.