About the position
At EY, you'll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we're counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all. The exceptional EY experience. It's yours to build. EY focuses on high-ethical standards and integrity among its employees and expects all candidates to demonstrate these qualities. Today's world is fuelled by vast amounts of information. Data is more valuable than ever before. Protecting data and information systems is central to doing business, and everyone in EY Information Security has a critical role to play. Join a global team of almost 950 people who collaborate to support the business of EY by protecting EY and client information assets! Our Information Security professionals enable EY to work securely and deliver secure products and services, as well as detect and quickly respond to security events as they happen. Together, the efforts of our dedicated team helps protect the EY brand and build client trust. Within Information Security we blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security and technology solutions as we consider the entire security lifecycle. You will join a team of hardworking, security-focused individuals dedicated to supporting, protecting and enabling the business through innovative, secure solutions that provide speed to market and business value.
Responsibilities
- Investigate, coordinate, bring to resolution, and report on security incidents as they are brought up or identified
- Forensically analyze end user systems and servers found to have possible indicators of compromise
- Analysis of artifacts collected during a security incident/forensic analysis
- Identify security incidents through 'Hunting' operations within a SIEM and other relevant tools
- Interface and connect with server owners, system custodians, and IT contacts to pursue security incident response activities, including: obtaining access to systems, digital artifact collection, and containment and/or remediation actions
- Provide consultation and assessment on perceived security threats
- Maintain, manage, improve and update security incident process and protocol documentation
- Regularly provide reporting and metrics on case work
- Resolution of security incidents by identifying root cause and solutions
- Analyze findings in investigative matters, and develop fact based reports
- Be on-call to deliver global incident response
Requirements
- Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related field
- 5+ years experience in incident response, computer forensics analysis and/or malware reverse engineering
- Understanding of security threats, vulnerabilities, and incident response
- Understanding of electronic investigation, forensic tools, and methodologies, including: log correlation and analysis, forensically handling electronic data, knowledge of the computer security investigative processes, malware identification and analysis
- Be familiar with legalities surrounding electronic discovery and analysis
- Experience with SIEM technologies (i.e. Splunk)
- Deep understanding of both Windows and Unix/Linux based operating systems
Nice-to-haves
- Hold or be willing to pursue related professional certifications such as GCFE, GCFA or GCIH
- Background in security incident response in Cloud-based environments, such as Azure
- Programming skills in PowerShell, Python and/or C/C++
- Understanding of the best security practices for network architecture and server configuration
Benefits
- Comprehensive compensation and benefits package
- Medical and dental coverage
- Pension and 401(k) plans
- Wide range of paid time off options
- Flexible vacation policy
- Time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence
