Job description summarythe associate director threat hunting and response will be an integral part of the novartis cyber security operations center (csoc). The csoc is an advanced global team passionate about the active defense against the most sophisticated cyber threats and attacks. The associate director threat hunting and responsewill is a principal engineer who will leverage a variety of tools and resources to proactively detect, investigate, and mitigate emerging and persistent threats impacting novartis' networks, systems, users, and applications. This role will involve coordination and communication with technical and nontechnical teams, including security leadership and business stakeholders. As an experienced skilled engineer, this role will also involve coaching and mentoring of more junior members of the csoc.job description
major accountabilities in addition to accountabilities listed above in job purpose:forensics and incident responseserve as escalation point for conducting investigations into security incidents involving advanced and sophisticated threat actors and ttpsperform forensic collection and analysis of electronic assets and devices, scripts and malicious software, and log sources from a variety of systems and applicationsmanage incident response activities including scoping, communication, reporting, and long term remediation planningthreat hunting:review incident and intelligence reports from a variety of internal and external sources and teamsdevelop hypotheses, analyze techniques, and execute hunts to identify threats across the environmentinterface with security teams and business stakeholders to implement countermeasures and improve defensesrespond to major incidents as part of larger major incident response teambig data analysis and reporting:utilizing siem/big data to identify abnormal activity and extract meaningful insights.research, develop, and enhance content within siem and other toolstechnologies and automation:interface with engineering teams to design, test, and implement playbooks, orchestration workflows and automationsresearch and test new technologies and platforms; develop recommendations and improvement plansday to day:perform host based analysis, artifact analysis, network packet analysis, and malware analysis in support of security investigations and incident responsecoordinate investigation, containment, and other response activities with business stakeholders and groupsdevelop and maintain effective documentation; including response playbooks, processes, and other supporting operational materialprovide mentoring of junior staff and serve as point of escalation for higher severity incidentsdevelop incident analysis and findings reports for management, including gap identification and recommendations for improvementrecommend or develop new detection logic and tune existing sensors / security controlswork with security solutions owners to assess existing security solutions array ability to detect / mitigate the abovementioned ttps creating custom siem queries and dashboards to support the monitoring and detection of advanced ttps against novartis networkparticipate in weekend/after hour on-call rotation to triage and/or respond to major incidentsskills desiredcommunication skills, cyber-security regulation, cyber threat hunting, cyber threat intelligence (cti), cyber threat management, cyber vulnerabilities, decision making skills, influencing skills, information security risk management