Sr. Insider Threat Analyst - Mid-Atlantic Region (Remote - EST) at GuidePoint Security

• Job Location Herndon, VA
• Seniority Mid-Senior Level
• Type Full-time

Description

GuidePoint Security provides trusted cybersecurity expertise, solutions and services that help organizations make better decisions and minimize risk.

By taking a three-tiered, holistic approach for evaluating security posture and ecosystems, GuidePoint enables some of the nation's top organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies and U.S.

government agencies, to identify threats, optimize resources and integrate best-fit solutions that mitigate risk.

The Sr.

Insider Threat Analyst is a member of the Insider Threat Team with primary responsibility for mitigating, identifying, and responding to insider threat security events.

The Insider Threat team is responsible for preventing, detecting, and responding to data exfiltration, workplace violence, systems sabotage, misuse of corporate assets, and other threats.

Lead and conduct complex and technical data analysis; develop and tune rules, policies, and alerts for DLP and UEBA applications; develop strategies to deter, detect, and respond to insider threats; and collaborate with security operation centers, digital forensics, and physical security teams.

Primary Duties and Accountabilities Identify and Respond to Insider Threat Security Events Respond, analyze, and triage alerts from DLP, UEBA and other monitoring tools Characterize and analyze information from enterprise cyber security tools identify anomalous activity and potential threats Coordinate with enterprise-wide cyber defense staff to validate network alerts Analyze security incidents for trends and patterns to uncover anomalies, identify gaps, and propose risk mitigation solutions Manage incident response and investigative leads, including notification and escalation.