Digital Forensics and Incident Response Consultant
CYPFER
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Texas • United States
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About the role
- Engage on behalf of CYPFER in incident response tasks, interacting with various insurance partners, legal counsel, incident response units, client executives, and technical teams.
- Utilize standard tools and methodologies to collect forensic artifacts and images from affected systems.
- Assist with Windows forensics and triage to assess compromise and investigations.
- Familiarity with malware analysis tools and methodologies.
- Apply mitigation strategies and concepts to remediate identified threats.
- Analyze triage collections/artifacts for indicators of compromise (IOCs) and potentially malicious activity.
- Review logs from host systems and appliances to identify suspicious activities.
- Collect forensic disk and memory images from physical and virtual endpoints and servers.
- Understanding of an incident lifecycle and cyber-kill-chain.
- Correlate events and build timelines of events.
- Maintain current knowledge on emerging threats and vulnerabilities.
- Analyze files for IOCs using various techniques.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience in digital forensics, incident response, or a similar role
- Knowledge of Windows and Unix/Linux operating systems
- Understanding of the functionality of EDR / EPP technologies
- Familiarity with forensic acquisition and analysis of physical and virtual systems
- Working knowledge of storage technologies such as RAID, NAS, SAN, Fiber Channel, iSCSI, and NFS
- Ability to analyze and interpret logs from various sources
- Ability to perform threat research and analyze current threats
- Understanding of business email compromise (BEC) cases and investigation techniques
- Participate in a rotating on-call schedule; ability to work on weekends and outside normal business hours as needed.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Multiple bonus opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
digital forensicsincident responseWindows forensicsmalware analysisforensic acquisitionlog analysisthreat researchstorage technologiesEDR technologiescyber-kill-chain
Soft Skills
interpersonal communicationcollaborationanalytical thinkingproblem-solvingattention to detail