Cybersecurity Analyst
About The Position
McGraw-Hill is seeking a Cybersecurity Analyst who can collaborate with development teams, business teams, and cross-functional technology. As a Cybersecurity Analyst you should have a general understanding of email security and server technology. The McGraw-Hill Cybersecurity Team is a highly technical, metrics driven team, with a consistent focus on process optimization and automation to improve effectiveness. You must be able to report, quantify stats, trends, and metrics to quantify risk and results. This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States.
Requirements
- A passion for infosec, analytical skills and a quick learner.
- Basic cybersecurity skills.
- General understanding of servers, applications, LDAP, DNS, IP addressing and subnetting, ports.
- Understanding of email headers.
- General understanding of malware sandboxing technology.
- Understanding of malware and phishing tools/techniques.
- Strong communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with Splunk and how to run Splunk queries is a bonus.
- Awareness or knowledge of Python and PowerShell is a bonus.
- General understanding of AI and MCP.
- Experience triaging cloud and web-app related security alerts.
- AWS and/or cybersecurity related training and certifications are a plus.
Responsibilities
- Monitor the McGraw Hill Splunk SIEM platform for security alerts.
- Handle 2 daily transition calls with the evening SOC team in India, at 9:15 AM EST and 4:15 PM EST.
- Perform standard operating procedures (SOPs) for each alert type, to quickly respond to security alerts and investigate them until closure.
- Work with IT personnel to report violations and close security alerts.
- Leverage our security automation tool (Splunk SOAR) for responding to incidents.
- Escalating any P1 (high priority) alerts immediately to the SOC manager
- Perform phishing email attack investigations.
- Perform triage steps when end users fall victim to attacks.
- Perform threat hunting on attack techniques commonly used by adversaries.
- Provide testing and supplemental support for Cybersecurity engineer project tasks.
- Track security incidents in a spreadsheet for monthly metrics.
- Perform daily, weekly, and monthly threat hunting tasks.
Benefits
- A full range of medical and/or other benefits may be provided, depending on the position offered.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
