CD&E - Cyber Security- Incident Response - Senior Associate - Bangalore

PwC Acceleration Center India

Bengaluru

On-site

INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

A leading professional services firm is seeking a Cyber Security Specialist in Bengaluru, Karnataka to focus on incident management and secure systems development. Candidates should have expertise in endpoint detection and response tools, as well as experience with Azure security features. This is a full-time position that offers opportunities for personal and technical growth in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

Experience with leading Endpoint Detection and Response tools.
Familiar with securing Active Directory environments.
Proven experience with Azure Active Directory Security.

Responsibilities

Identify, analyze, and resolve security incidents.
Develop secure systems and provide proactive solutions.
Build meaningful client connections and manage teams.

Skills

Communication

Critical thinking

Technical standards adherence

Education

Bachelor Degree

Tools

PowerShell

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

Job description

At PwC, our people in cybersecurity focus on protecting organisations from cyber threats through advanced technologies and strategies. They work to identify vulnerabilities, develop secure systems, and provide proactive solutions to safeguard sensitive data. In cybersecurity incident management at PwC, you will focus on effectively responding to, and mitigating, cyber threats, maintaining the security of client systems and data. You will be responsible for identifying, analysing, and resolving security incidents to minimise potential damage and protect against future attacks.

Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.

Skills

Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
Use reflection to develop self‑awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.
Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

Preferred Knowledge / Skills

Experience and familiarity with leading Endpoint Detection and Response tools (e.g. Defender, Carbon Black, Sentinel One, CrowdStrike)
Understanding of either Microsoft Azure, AWS or Google Cloud; particularly around risk‑based authentication, privileged access management.
Understanding of key IT infrastructure products, including Active Directory.
Experience with securing Active Directory (AD) environments, including Group Policy configuration, permissions management, and best practices for identity and access control.
Azure Active Directory Security: Proven experience with conditional access, multi‑factor authentication, and securing hybrid identity environments.
Identity & Access Management: Familiarity with Single Sign‑On (SSO), identity federation, and lifecycle management for accounts and permissions.
Office 365 (M365) Security: In‑depth knowledge of Office 365 security features, including advanced threat protection, DLP, and compliance management.
Familiarity with PowerShell scripting for automating O365 security configurations and audits.
Analyzing the structure of common attack techniques in order to evaluate an attacker's spread through a system and network, anticipating and thwarting further attacker activity.
Understanding of common attack techniques performed by threat actors, including identity‑based attacks, choosing appropriate defenses and response techniques for each.
Applying incident handling processes including preparation, identification, containment, eradication, and recovery to protect enterprise environments.
Acquiring infected machines and then detecting the artifacts and impact of exploitation through log analysis.
Deriving and pivoting off of Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) from malicious executables to strengthen incident response and threat intelligence efforts.
Identifying artifact and evidence locations to answer critical questions, including application execution, file access, data theft, external device usage, cloud services, anti‑forensics, and detailed system usage.
Hunting and responding to advanced adversaries such as nation‑state actors, organized crime, and hacktivists.
Detecting and hunting unknown live, dormant, and custom malware across multiple Operating Systems in an enterprise environment.
Targeting advanced adversary anti‑forensics techniques like hidden and time‑stomped malware, along with utility‑ware used to move in the network and maintain an attacker's presence.
Experience utilizing and contributing to knowledge management systems such as Confluence as part of a technical team; tracking user and attacker activity second‑by‑second on the system via in‑depth timeline and super‑timeline analysis.
Identifying lateral movement and pivots within client enterprises, showing how attackers move from system to system without detection.
Demonstrates thorough abilities and/or a proven record of success in the following areas: Network Analysis, Cyber Forensics Evidence Collection, Endpoint Analysis, Cyber Incident Lifecycle, NIST 800‑61; and, programming languages such as Python and PowerShell; demonstrates experience with at least one of the following tools including: X‑Ways, Rekall, Volatility, EnCase, Remnux, IDA, Capture.Bat, RegShot, Radare, OllyDbg, Wireshark, Network Miner, NFdump, SentinelOne, CarbonBlack, CylancePROTECT, and PLASO/Log2Timeline, FireEye HX, and Crowdstrike.