Incident Manager - III

Company: Farfield Systems
Location: Arlington
Posted on: May 20, 2023

Job Description:

Farfield will assist the Federal staff within the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Agency (CISA) Hunt and Incident Response Team (HIRT), and National Cybersecurity and Assessment and Technical Services (NCATS) branches, with a broad set of support functions.The Hunt and Incident Response Team is DHS's front line when responding to cyber incidents and proactively hunting for malicious cyber activity. HIRT leverages world-class expertise to lead response, containment, remediation, and asset recovery efforts with its constituents and partners. HIRT provides two primary functions to its customer. First, HIRT serves as DHS's primary operations arm in the execution of the asset response mission delegated to DHS.
When any civilian Government agency or critical asset owner operator experiences a cyber-attack, HIRT can provide remote and onsite advanced technical assistance. Second, HIRT also can be called upon to proactively identify malicious activity, otherwise known as a "hunt", specifically focusing on identifying threats from sophisticated threat actors that are often undetected, and in situations beyond the capacity and capability of traditional cyber security tools and techniques.*** Requires a Top Secret/SCI Clearance and U.S. Citizenship***Responsibilities:
- Correlating incident data to identify specific trends in reported incidents -
- Recommending defense in depth principles and practices (i.e. Defense in Multiple Places, layered defenses, security robustness, etc.) -
- Performing Computer Network Defense incident triage to include determining scope, urgency, and potential impact -
- Researching and compiling known resolution steps or workarounds to enable mitigation of potential Computer Network Defense incidents within the enterprise -
- Applying cybersecurity concepts to the detection and defense of intrusions into small, and large-scale IT networks, and conduct cursory analysis of log data
- Monitoring external data sources to maintain currency of Computer Network Defense threat condition and determine which security issues may have an impact on the enterprise -
- Identifying the cause of an incident and recognizing the key elements to ask external entities when learning the background and potential infection vector of an incident, -
- Receiving and analyzing network alerts from various sources within the enterprise and determine possible causes of such alerts -
- Tracking and documenting Computer Network Defense (CND) incidents from initial detection through final resolution, and work with other components within the organization to obtain and coordinate information pertaining to ongoing incidents
- Providing support during assigned shifts (Monday through Friday, normal business hours)Required Skills:
- U.S. Citizenship
- Must have an active TS/SCI clearance
- Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability
- 5+ years of directly relevant experience in cyber incident management or cybersecurity operations
- Knowledge of incident response and handling methodologies
- Having close familiarity with NIST 800-62 (latest revision), FISMA standards as they pertain to reporting incidents, and MITRE ATT&CK framework
- Knowledge of the NCCIC National Cyber Incident Scoring System to be able to prioritize triaging of incident
- Knowledge of general attack stages (e.g., foot printing and scanning, enumeration, gaining access, escalation of privileges, maintaining access, network exploitation, covering tracks, etc.)
- Skill in recognizing and categorizing of various types of vulnerabilities and associated attacks
- Knowledge of intelligence community reporting, classified information handling requirements, and critical infrastructure designations
- Knowledge of different operational threat environments (e.g., first generation [script kiddies], second generation [non nation-state sponsored], and third generation [nation-state sponsored])
- Knowledge of system and application security threats and vulnerabilities (e.g., buffer overflow, mobile code, cross-site scripting, PL/SQL and injections, race conditions, covert channel, replay, return- oriented attacks, and malicious code)Desired Skills:
- Knowledge of different operational threat environments (e.g., first generation [script kiddies], second generation [non nation-state sponsored], and third generation [nation-state sponsored])
- Knowledge of system and application security threats and vulnerabilities (e.g., buffer overflow, mobile code, cross-site scripting, PL/SQL and injections, race conditions, covert channel, replay, return- oriented attacks, and malicious code)Required Education:
BS Incident Management, Operations Management, Cybersecurity or related degree. -HS Diploma with 7-9 incident management or cyber security experienceDesired Certifications:
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