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Posted 9 months ago
Security / Soc Analyst III
HoustonOn-siteContract
AI Summary
Security Operations Center Analyst III conducts security monitoring, triages alerts, performs incident response, and evaluates SIEM detection effectiveness for a 6-month contract in Houston.
About this role
Exciting Security / Soc Analyst III, 6 months contract opportunity in Houston, TX.
Requirements
- 5 plus years experience in the security domain, Incident Response, threat monitoring, and handling incidents (incident triage and response)
- Determine detection requirements for data sources being on-boarded to the SIEM, and assessing the value of in place SIEM detection cases, in order to determine gaps and overlap in the overall detection scheme.
- Perform security monitoring and incident response of cyber security events for proper determination of being considered a cybersecurity event.
- Triage offenses for false positives
- Hands-on experience defining detection or protection schemes based on industry standards and frameworks.
- SIEM, Endpoint Detection and Response, Firewall/IPS/IDS, Proxy, Data Loss Prevention, Authentication
- Experience leveraging data from security technologies and referential data sources to define security detection requirements, including detections which correlate data across multiple data sources.
- Ability to interpret code in the support of detection case development.
Skills
Data Loss PreventionEndpoint Detection And ResponseFirewallIDSIncident ResponseIPSProxySIEMThreat Monitoring
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