Senior Incident Response Consultant

Job Description

WithSecure delivers research-led cyber security to defend organizations, society and people from real-world attacks and build resilience into their approach. Our people are a mix of technical and creative experts – diverse, talented, and passionate people – working tirelessly to help us advance the industry with new ways of thinking. They lead their own development, in and out of the office. They call the shots when it comes to building a place to call home in our organization.

We are looking for a Senior Incident Response Consultant to join our growing global team. This an exciting time to join in this newly created role! The successful candidate will be part of shaping & executing our plans on growing our capabilities as well as creating a local team of investigators to support you in the region.

This is a great opportunity for someone who has studied computer science, IT security, or Computer Forensics and are interested getting into the fascinating field of pulling apart real-world attacks in a company that is highly innovative, rapidly growing and with lots of opportunities to learn and grow.

Key Responsibilities

The primary responsibility of this role is to work with WithSecure’s clients to deliver Investigations and Incident Response services. These services are aimed at responding to and containing security incidents for our clients, with a particular focus on advanced targeted attacks. This can also cover a wide range of areas including forensic investigations, proactive compromise assessments and guiding our clients through the implementation of response procedures.

This role requires the ability to clearly communicate to a range of audiences from technical practitioners through to executive boards and identify technical issues describing them in the language of the business you are engaged with.

A successful candidate should have a good general knowledge of both enterprise IT platforms and information security. They will be required to understand the motivations and methods adopted by a wide range of threat sources with a good understanding of how exploitation of systems occurs.

Job Duties

• Lead investigations into root cause analysis for WithSecure clients
• Act as the primary contact point for support and escalations for the region
• Correlate findings across multiple sources of evidence
• Producing high quality reports to present findings and recommendations
• Lead large scale incidents with support of the global team in a follow the sun model
• Perform Memory, Network and Disk forensic analysis.
• Contributing to the development of the global team
• Mentor and train a local team of investigators to support you in the region and work with the global team on improving service delivery

What are we looking for?

• Experience with leading investigations into targeted attacks across large enterprise networks
• Solid understanding of client-server infrastructures, security architectures and related logging and alerting
• Knowledge of Windows, Linux and/or OS X internals

• Knowledge of the phases of Incident Response as defined by NIST

• Familiarity with common attack techniques

• • Ability to report key findings in a clear and concise manner both at technical and senior management level
• Knowledge of TCP/IP networking with the ability to perform network forensic analysis

• Solid understanding of file-system analysis and the ability to find and extract common disk-based indicators of compromise

• Experience in Malware Analysis

• Experience with a scripting language such as Python, Ruby, Powershell or Bash

• Knowledge of common cloud technologies
• Vendor independent qualification in Incident Response and Forensics such as GIAC, IISFA,IACIS, ISFCE, ECCouncil or CREST certifications (e.g. CFCE, CCE, CIFI, CHFI, ECIH, GCIH, GCIA, GCFA, GCFE, GREM, GCED, Intrusion Analyst, Network or Host Intrusion Analyst or Malware Reverse Engineer)
• Vendor specific qualification such as AccessData Certified Examiner (ACE), Encase Certified Examiner (EnCE) certification or X-Ways Professional in Evidence Recovery Techniques (X-PERT)

Bonus points

• Background in offensive security/certifications such as OSCP/OSEP
• Line manager experience

Our four promises to you:

• Freedom – you will have the opportunity to define new ways of working how we engage with our customers, and how product value gets represented
• You will work together with experienced and enthusiastic colleagues, and within WithSecure you will find some of the best minds in the cyber security industry
• Your work will be clearly visible and recognised – all over the world and across our business units
• You can rely on the support from the entire WithSecure leadership including our top executives