Incident Response Analyst

Check Point Software; Rockville (MD); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Check Point Software is looking for an Incident Response Analyst to manage the daily incident response for customers. The role requires 5+ years of cybersecurity experience with a focus on T3 incident response. You will be responsible for formulating incident response efforts and conducting forensic analyses. Join a leading company in cyber security that's recognized for its exceptional workplace culture.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of cybersecurity experience, with 2-5 years in T3 incident response.
• Experience with security reviews and vulnerability risk assessments.
• Ability to participate in on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily incident management of customer incidents.
• Perform forensic analysis of compromised systems and provide remediation.
• Create incident response plans and detailed incident reports.

Skills

Incident Management

Cybersecurity

Forensic Analysis

Risk Assessment

Crisis Management

Education

5+ years of cybersecurity experience

Job description

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Why Join Us?

As the world’s leading vendor of Cyber Security, facing the most sophisticated threats and attacks, we’ve assembled a global team of the most driven, creative, and innovative people. At Check Point, our employees are redefining the security landscape by meeting our customers’ real-time needs and providing our cutting-edge technologies and services to an ever-growing customer base.

Check Point Software Technologies has been honored by Time Magazine as one of the World’s Best Companies for 2024. We've also earned a spot on the Forbes list of the World’s Best Places to Work for five consecutive years (2020-2024) and recognized as one of the World’s Top Female-Friendly Companies. If you're passionate about making the world a safer place and want to be part of an award-winning company culture, we invite you to join us.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for daily incident management of customer incidents
• Perform incident response and forensic analysis of compromised systems, identify and provide recommendations for remediation
• Formulate and direct incident response efforts, prioritize those response efforts, and create legible incident reports that describe the compromise vector, attacker methodologies and artifacts
• Ability to manage complicated global incidents
• Ability to perform large-scale compromise assessments for customer environments
• Build incident response plans and playbooks
• Create attack scenarios for customer table top training excercises
• Creation of detailed incident reports for customers and effective communication of findings to customers
• Build and maintain sandbox/test lab environments to evaluate malicious code
• Work within a team environment and will be responsible for coordinating work actions
  
  

Qualifications

• This is not an entry level SOC role.
• 5+ years of cybersecurity experience out of which 2-5 years are experience performing T3 incident response with an emphasis on system compromise analysis.
• Experience of performing security reviews/vulnerability risk assessments of network environments using both manual procedures and automated analysis tools.
• Experience with enterprise security solutions, incident crisis management.
• Experience with performing attack simulation for training security teams.
• Experience with creating procedures and documented plans for security teams.
• Ability to participate in on-call rotation.
• Domestic and International travel may be required.
  
  

This position is posted in multiple territories and your ability to work without sponsorship from an employer now or in the future in the country for which you apply is required.

EOE M/F/Veterans/Disabled

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Computer and Network Security, Software Development, and IT Services and IT Consulting

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