Cyber Systems Analyst

The Bison Group LLC•Quantico Base, VA

6d•$70,000 - $90,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Bison Group is seeking a Cyber Systems Analyst to join their team in Quantico, VA. This role supports the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (MCIA) program, focusing on intelligence production and analysis for various Areas of Responsibility (AORs). The analyst will assess the cybersecurity posture of USMC defense programs, prioritize cyber threats, and analyze foreign capabilities to detect, disrupt, and deny USMC emissions and signals. Responsibilities include identifying risks in network environments, evaluating intelligence gaps, gathering Publicly Available Information (PAI), analyzing battlespace characteristics, and determining adversary Courses of Action (COA). The role also involves evaluating foreign Computer Network Defense (CND) and Computer Network Attack (CNA) capabilities and assessing potential vulnerabilities of USMC tactical systems.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
At least 8 years of relevant experience with a portion of that experience being within the last 2 years.
Seasoned Intelligence Analyst preferably with multi-INT expertise.
Excellent research, writing, and briefing skills to customer senior leadership, as they pertain to an intelligence environment supporting critical operations.
TS/SCI clearance

Responsibilities

Provide direct support to MCIA for situational awareness and intelligence production and analysis.
Conduct analysis using intelligence from multiple sources to assess, interpret, and forecast national security issues.
Provide all-source analytic support to collections, operations, investigations, and other defense intelligence analytic requirements.
Assess the cybersecurity posture of a USMC defense program, ensuring adherence to best cybersecurity practices and prioritizing cyber threats.
Analyze foreign capabilities to detect, disrupt, and deny USMC emissions and signals throughout the cyber kill chain.
Identify, monitor, and assess advancements in emerging and commercial technologies that could be employed by adversaries.
Identify significant risk characteristics of the environment such as classification of network, baseline activity, architecture, operating system, services, connectivity and bandwidth.
Identify the limits of the network to be collected against.
Establish limits of the supporting or connected networks that may need to be collected against.
Evaluate existing databases and identify intelligence gaps.
Use open source to gather Publicly Available Information (PAI).
Explore the physical battlespace and analyze how the environment could affect tactical operations.
Analyze other characteristics of the battlespace such as security, auditing procedures, and backup systems.
Evaluate the adversary on physical location of all assets, architecture and automation skills, security and policies, baseline activity, peculiarities and vulnerabilities, capabilities, and conclusions that address Rules of Engagement (ROE) for Information Assurance (IA), Computer Network Defense (CND) and Computer Network Attack (CNA).
Determine adversary’s Courses of Action (COA), identify likely objectives and desired end state, and develop COA’s based on enemy perception of friendly information architecture (reverse cyber IPB).
Evaluate foreign Computer Network Defense (CND) and Computer Network Attack (CNA) capabilities, limitations, and vulnerabilities.
Assess potential vulnerabilities of USMC tactical systems to CNA to include systems related to targeting, ISR, and navigation assets.
Define the battlespace effects.
Analyze the battlespace environment for information, services and networks, such as confidentiality, integrity, availability; and protect, detect, respond, restore and conduct reviews.