The Mid-Level Cyber Systems Analyst

Global Dimensions, LLC; Quantico (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Dimensions, LLC is seeking a Mid-Level Cyber Systems Analyst to provide cybersecurity, threat intelligence, and analytic support for USMC defense acquisition programs. You will assess cyber threats, adversary capabilities, system vulnerabilities, and battlespace conditions to inform acquisition, operational, and risk decisions.

You will evaluate the cybersecurity posture of programs, monitor evolving threats, and produce threat analyses to support ROE, IA, CND, and CNA considerations

Responsibilities

• Evaluate the cybersecurity posture of USMC defense programs, ensuring assessments reflect evolving cybersecurity best practices and prioritize threats based on comprehensive cyber analysis.
• Assess foreign capabilities to detect, disrupt, deny, degrade, or exploit USMC emissions and signals across the cyber kill chain, including targeting, communications, ISR, and other tactical systems.
• Monitor and assess emerging and commercial technologies that state and non-state actors could leverage to detect, disrupt, exploit, or compromise the network infrastructure supporting USMC acquisition programs.
• Identify and assess critical environmental and network risk factors, including network classification, baseline activity, system architecture, operating systems, services, connectivity, and bandwidth.
• Define network boundaries and identify connected or supporting networks that may require intelligence collection.
• Evaluate existing intelligence databases and other sources to identify intelligence gaps and collection requirements.
• Conduct open-source research and collect relevant Publicly Available Information (PAI).
• Analyze the physical and cyber battlespace to determine how environmental conditions may affect tactical operations and characterize resulting operational impacts.
• Assess battlespace information, services, and networks with a focus on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, including mechanisms to protect, detect, respond, restore, and review.
• Evaluate additional battlespace characteristics, including security controls, auditing procedures, backup systems, asset locations, architecture, automation capabilities, security policies, baseline activity, and vulnerabilities.
• Develop analytic conclusions relevant to Rules of Engagement (ROE), Information Assurance (IA), Computer Network Defense (CND), and Computer Network Attack (CNA).
• Identify potential adversary Courses of Action (COAs), including likely objectives, desired outcomes, and the full range of available options, with particular emphasis on the most likely and most dangerous COAs.
• Develop adversary COAs from the adversary's perspective of friendly information architecture, including reverse cyber Intelligence Preparation of the Battlespace (IPB).
• Evaluate, prioritize, and continuously refine adversary COAs as new intelligence and information become available.
• Assess foreign CND and CNA capabilities, limitations, and vulnerabilities.
• Evaluate potential vulnerabilities of USMC tactical systems to CNA, including systems supporting targeting, ISR, navigation, communications, and related mission functions.
• Provide portfolio-specific threat analysis, subject-matter expertise, and intelligence production in support of Marine Corps acquisition programs.
• Plan and conduct Threat Steering Groups with stakeholders from USMC Combat Development & Integration (CD&I) to identify key threat factors and significant risk drivers associated with potential materiel solutions, including impacts to lifecycle cost, performance, schedule, and other acquisition decisions

Job description

The Mid-Level Cyber Systems Analyst will provide cybersecurity, threat intelligence, and analytic support to U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) defense acquisition programs. The analyst will assess cyber threats, adversary capabilities, system vulnerabilities, and battlespace conditions to inform acquisition, operational, and risk-management decisions.

Essential Job Functions:

Evaluate the cybersecurity posture of USMC defense programs, ensuring assessments reflect evolving cybersecurity best practices and prioritize threats based on comprehensive cyber analysis.

Assess foreign capabilities to detect, disrupt, deny, degrade, or exploit USMC emissions and signals across the cyber kill chain. This includes emissions associated with targeting, communications, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), and other tactical systems, as well as reversible and non-reversible attacks.

Monitor and assess emerging and commercial technologies that state and non-state actors could leverage to detect, disrupt, exploit, or compromise the network infrastructure supporting USMC acquisition programs.

Identify and assess critical environmental and network risk factors, including network classification, baseline activity, system architecture, operating systems, services, connectivity, and bandwidth.

Define network boundaries and identify connected or supporting networks that may require intelligence collection.

Evaluate existing intelligence databases and other sources to identify intelligence gaps and collection requirements.

Conduct open-source research and collect relevant Publicly Available Information (PAI).

Analyze the physical and cyber battlespace to determine how environmental conditions may affect tactical operations and characterize resulting operational impacts.

Assess battlespace information, services, and networks with a focus on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, including mechanisms to protect, detect, respond, restore, and review.

Evaluate additional battlespace characteristics, including security controls, auditing procedures, backup systems, asset locations, architecture, automation capabilities, security policies, baseline activity, and vulnerabilities.

Develop analytic conclusions relevant to Rules of Engagement (ROE), Information Assurance (IA), Computer Network Defense (CND), and Computer Network Attack (CNA).

Identify potential adversary Courses of Action (COAs), including likely objectives, desired outcomes, and the full range of available options, with particular emphasis on the most likely and most dangerous COAs.

Develop adversary COAs from the adversary's perspective of friendly information architecture, including reverse cyber Intelligence Preparation of the Battlespace (IPB).

Evaluate, prioritize, and continuously refine adversary COAs as new intelligence and information become available.

Assess foreign CND and CNA capabilities, limitations, and vulnerabilities.

Evaluate potential vulnerabilities of USMC tactical systems to CNA, including systems supporting targeting, ISR, navigation, communications, and related mission functions.

Provide portfolio-specific threat analysis, subject-matter expertise, and intelligence production in support of Marine Corps acquisition programs.

Plan and conduct Threat Steering Groups with stakeholders from USMC Combat Development & Integration (CD&I) to identify key threat factors and significant risk drivers associated with potential materiel solutions, including impacts to lifecycle cost, performance, schedule, and other acquisition decisions