Offensive Security Analyst

Abbott Laboratories; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 61,000 - 123,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

FreeU education benefit

Job summary

Abbott Laboratories in Madison, WI, is seeking an Offensive Security Analyst to execute authorized penetration tests, support adversary emulation, and validate vulnerabilities across Abbott’s assets. You will work under senior oversight, expanding your offensive security skills within a regulated healthcare environment.

The role emphasizes hands-on testing, clear reporting, and collaboration with IT and security teams, while minimizing risk to PHI and sensitive data.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Security, CS, IT, or equivalent experience/certs.
• 1–3 years of cybersecurity experience or related internship/co-op.
• Working knowledge of Windows/Linux, networks, and Active Directory.
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK, OWASP, PTES, CWE, CVSS.
• Scripting or automation with Python/PowerShell/Bash.

Responsibilities

• Plan and perform authorized penetration tests on Abbott assets within scope and ROE.
• Support adversary emulation and purple team exercises; document lessons learned.
• Validate vulnerabilities and map attack paths to MITRE ATT&CK/OWASP/CWE.
• Produce clear assessment reports with evidence, CVSS severity, and remediation guidance.
• Collaborate with Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, and Vulnerability teams; contribute to playbooks and tooling.

Skills

Windows

Linux

Active Directory

MITRE ATT&CK

Scripting (Python)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity/CS/IT or equivalent

Tools

Burp Suite

Nmap

Metasploit

Kali Linux

Job description

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify forfree medical coverage in ourHealth Investment Plan (HIP) PPOmedical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

The Offensive Security Analyst supports Abbott’s Enterprise Cybersecurity Operations, Red Team Operations program by executing authorized penetration tests, supporting adversary emulation and purple team exercises, and validating vulnerabilities across internal and external assets. Working within defined methodologies, scope, and Rules of Engagement, the analyst develops hands on offensive security expertise while producing clear, actionable findings that measurably improve Abbott’s security posture. The role emphasizes technical execution, continuous skill development, and safe, ethical testing within a regulated healthcare environment.

This position reports to the Manager of Red Team Operations within Enterprise Cybersecurity and supports offensive security testing across Abbott’s enterprise technology environment. Responsibilities emphasize hands on execution and technical skill development under senior oversight, with exposure to purple team operations, vulnerability validation, cloud and identity attack paths, and emerging threat areas. The analyst is expected to grow toward performing standard assessments with increasing independence.

Abbott operates in a regulated healthcare and medical device environment, so testing may involve sensitive data, including PHI, and patient adjacent or clinical systems. The analyst is expected to minimize captured sensitive data, store evidence only in approved locations, coordinate testing windows to limit operational impact, and comply with all applicable authorization, privacy, and regulatory requirements.

What You’ll Do

Offensive testing and adversary emulation

The analyst plans and executes authorized penetration tests against Abbott owned assets, including web applications, APIs, network infrastructure, and cloud environments, within approved scope and Rules of Engagement. This includes supporting purple team adversary emulation exercises by assisting with scenario development, executing ATT&CK mapped tactics, techniques, and procedures, validating detection and response coverage alongside defensive teams, and documenting lessons learned. The analyst supports red team and objective based engagements under senior direction and contributes to specialized assessments.

Vulnerability validation

The analyst performs vulnerability validation and exploit feasibility assessments to confirm real-world risk and reduce false positives before remediation prioritization. Individual weaknesses are analyzed and chained into meaningful attack paths mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, OWASP, and CWE, and the analyst develops and safely tests proof of concept exploits within authorized environments.

Reporting and communication

The analyst produces clear, structured assessment reports and executive summaries with supporting evidence, CVSS based severity justification, business risk context, and actionable remediation guidance. The role supports post engagement readouts, knowledge transfer sessions, and remediation discussions with application owners and IT teams, and translates technical findings for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Collaboration and program contribution

The analyst collaborates with the Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Management, Detection Engineering, and Cybersecurity Architecture teams, and contributes to service metrics and dashboards that track testing coverage, vulnerability trends, and detection effectiveness over time. The role also contributes to team methodology, tooling, playbooks, and documentation held in SharePoint, Git, and wiki resources.

Professional conduct and development

The analyst operates strictly within authorization, scope, Rules of Engagement, and legal and ethical boundaries, exercising discretion when handling highly sensitive data, including PHI, and patient-adjacent or clinical systems. Complex, novel, or high risk findings are escalated promptly with appropriate documentation. The analyst continuously develops offensive security skills through self-directed learning, labs, and research, maintaining growing proficiency with standard tooling such as Burp Suite, Nmap, BloodHound, and content-discovery tools.

Education and Experience You’ll Bring

Required Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field is expected, or equivalent practical experience and certifications.
• Candidates typically bring one to three years of relevant cybersecurity experience, and internship, co-op, or applied academic and lab experience will be considered.
• Working knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems, networking fundamentals, and Active Directory concepts.
• Familiarity with offensive security frameworks and standards such as MITRE ATT&CK, OWASP, PTES, CWE, and CVSS.
• Exposure to scripting or automation such as Python, PowerShell, or Bash.

Preferred Qualifications

• Foundational knowledge of web technologies, including HTTP and HTTPS, REST APIs, and authentication mechanisms, and of common vulnerability classes such as the OWASP Top 10.
• Candidates should have hands-on familiarity with core offensive security tooling such as Burp Suite, Nmap, Metasploit, and Kali Linux, or demonstrable applied lab proficiency and clear intent to develop these skills.
• Preferred certifications, or those a candidate is working toward, include OSCP, GPEN, GWAPT, or GXPN; OSWE, CRTP, or CBBH; and a recognized cloud security or cloud penetration testing certification such as an AWS or Azure security credential.

• Misc: This is an onsite role at Abbott location Madison; WI This is not a remote role/opportunity.

• Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com
• Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.
• Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott, and on Twitter @AbbottNews.

The base pay for this position is $61,300.00 – $122,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.