Cyber Security, Senior Incident and Threat Responder

News Corp - Los Angeles, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Los Angeles, CA

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About the position

As a Cyber Security, Incident and Threat Responder at News Corp, you will be an integral part of the Cyber Defense team, responsible for managing and responding to cyber security incidents. Your role will involve investigating threats, documenting incidents, and developing response plans to minimize the impact of security events. You will also work on improving the organization's ability to prevent and respond to cyber risks through innovative strategies and collaboration with various teams.

Responsibilities

• Support internal incident response engagements to understand, mitigate and remediate threats and risks impacting News Corp Business Units.
• Perform complex incident response technical analysis and develop technical conclusions based on analysis of evidence; review analysis and conclusions of other team members.
• Monitor for and investigate internal and external threats leveraging best of breed technologies.
• Contribute to the Security Mission - correlating multiple data sources, analyzing the facts, determining best remediation strategy, and remediating until the incident is contained and resolved.
• Set standards for the documentation of activities during an incident, creation of security incident reports, and for conducting post-incident reviews.
• Drive continuous improvement through active collaboration with threat simulation, security architecture, detection and response engineering, and business unit teams.
• Spearhead the development of innovative approaches to detect, respond to, and eradicate advance threats; improve overall time to respond and eliminate threats; and increase effectiveness of analysts.
• Engage in ongoing research in security tools, techniques, and procedures, as well as advanced Threat Detection initiatives based on aggressive security principals, machine learning algorithms, and threat mitigation techniques.
• Communicate incidents to appropriate stakeholders, targeting discussions to appropriate technical depth dependent on the audience.

Requirements

• Multiple years of cyber security experience.
• Preferably 5 years specializing in incident response and system monitoring and analysis, leading investigations and coordinating security response team activities.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information assurance, MIS or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Experience with security frameworks and privacy compliance requirements (ISO 27001, NIST CSF, GDPR, etc.).
• Knowledge of multiple computing platforms, including Network, Windows, OSX, Linux, Unix, networks and endpoints.
• Expertise using Security Correlation and Analytics platforms / SIEM platforms.

Nice-to-haves

• Familiar with tactics, techniques, and procedures commonly employed by threat actors, and their motivations.
• Strong technical communication skills (oral and written) including experience briefing executive management and desire to work with clients to solve complex security issues, including at times in crisis situations.
• Experience briefing senior-level leadership, and conveying technical subject matter to audiences of varying backgrounds and skill levels.
• Full-stack knowledge to understand modern attacks that involve networks, infrastructure, compute and applications.
• Familiarity with scripting/developing in modern languages like Python, Go, Ruby.
• Understanding of modern application architectures (serverless, mobile, distributed…).
• Demonstrated experience in Cloud incident response either as a senior security support engineer or SOC Engineer / Analyst.
• Public/Private Cloud Experience (preferably AWS).
• In-Depth OS Experience (RHEL, Ubuntu, Windows Server).
• Understanding of host based security and tooling.
• Ability to identify network attacks and systemic security issues as they relate to threats and vulnerabilities, with focus on recommendations for enhancements or remediation.
• Strong analytical skills/problem solving/conceptual thinking/attention to detail.
• Ability to work effectively with peers and multiple levels of management.
• Well organized, thorough, with the ability to balance and prioritize competing priorities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills across multiple levels of the organization.
• Highly self-motivated with the ability to identify areas of focus and tackle new challenges with or without direction.

Benefits

• Comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package including physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits.
• Elective benefits that employees may select to best fit their needs and personal situations.