Cyber Incident Response & Resilience Specialist

PwC; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 63,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary bonus

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k

Paid holidays

Vacation leave

Personal and family sick leave

Job summary

PwC in Boston is seeking a Cyber Defense & Resilience - Incident Response - Experienced Associate to support incident responses, analyze security events, and help reduce potential impact to client systems and data. You will take ownership of assigned work, communicate with team members and clients, and apply professional standards while building commercial awareness.

You will learn across incident management activities, gathering information from logs, threat intel, and endpoint data, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• At least 1 year of experience required.
• Experience in incident response, threat detection, and remediation is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Triaging alerts and validating incident severity.
• Analyzing logs, endpoint data, and threat intel to identify attack patterns.
• Assisting with containment, eradication, and recovery actions.
• Updating incident response plans and case records.
• Performing digital forensics to preserve evidence and reconstruct timelines.
• Monitoring SOC workflows to detect anomalies.
• Contributing to vulnerability assessments and remediation tracking.
• Preparing clear technical summaries for internal and client stakeholders.

Skills

Incident response

Cybersecurity analysis

Digital forensics

Clear communication

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

PwC in Boston is seeking a Cyber Defense & Resilience - Incident Response - Experienced Associate to support incident responses, analyze security events, and help reduce potential impact to client systems and data. You will take ownership of assigned work, communicate with team members and clients, and apply professional standards while building commercial awareness.

You will learn across incident management activities, gathering information from logs, threat intel, and endpoint data, and