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[Remote] Cybersecurity Analyst
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. McGraw Hill is a leading educational organization seeking a Cybersecurity Analyst to join their Global Technology Services team. The role involves monitoring security alerts, responding to incidents, and collaborating with various teams to enhance cybersecurity measures.
Responsibilities
- Monitor the McGraw Hill Splunk SIEM platform for security alerts
- Handle 2 daily transition calls with the evening SOC team in India, at 9:15 AM EST and 4:15 PM EST
- Perform standard operating procedures (SOPs) for each alert type, to quickly respond to security alerts and investigate them until closure
- Work with IT personnel to report violations and close security alerts
- Leverage our security automation tool (Splunk SOAR) for responding to incidents
- Escalating any P1 (high priority) alerts immediately to the SOC manager
- Perform phishing email attack investigations
- Perform triage steps when end users fall victim to attacks
- Perform threat hunting on attack techniques commonly used by adversaries
- Provide testing and supplemental support for Cybersecurity engineer project tasks
- Track security incidents in a spreadsheet for monthly metrics
- Perform daily, weekly, and monthly threat hunting tasks
Skills
- A passion for infosec, analytical skills and a quick learner
- Basic cybersecurity skills
- General understanding of servers, applications, LDAP, DNS, IP addressing and subnetting, ports
- Familiarity with Splunk and how to run Splunk queries is a bonus
- Awareness or knowledge of Python and PowerShell is a bonus
- Strong communication skills
- Understanding of email headers
- General understanding of malware sandboxing technology
- Understanding of malware and phishing tools/techniques
- General understanding of AI and MCP
- Experience triaging cloud and web-app related security alerts
- AWS and/or cybersecurity related training and certifications are a plus
Benefits
- A full range of medical and/or other benefits may be provided, depending on the position offered
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