Incident Response Senior Specialist, Associated Vice President

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group • Jersey City, NJ

11d • Hybrid

About The Position

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count? Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career. Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded. The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details. Job Summary In this role you will focus on researching potential cybersecurity threats to various systems, technologies, operations, and programs throughout multiple environments. You will perform analysis based on this research to determine the risk to the organization and take appropriate actions based upon that analysis. Responsibilities include rapidly responding to potential incidents and events to minimize risk exposure and ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of assets and business processes. Additionally, you will proactively monitor internal and external-facing environments, seek opportunities to strengthen and automate detection and remediation capabilities, reduce response times for incidents, and produce analyses of cybersecurity events that include perspectives on the behavior of adversaries.

Requirements

• Strong Incident Response knowledge and experience
• Theoretical and practical knowledge with Mac OS, Linux, Windows operating systems and clouds
• Experience with security data collection, analysis and correlation
• Well-developed analytic, qualitative, and quantitative reasoning skills
• Demonstrated creative problem-solving abilities
• Strong time management skills to balance multiple activities and lead junior analysts as needed
• A diverse skill base in both product security and information security including organizational structure and administration practices, system development and maintenance procedures, system software and hardware security controls, access controls, computer operations, physical and environmental controls, and backup and recovery procedures.
• Detailed knowledge and experience in security and regulatory frameworks (ISO 27001, NIST 800 series, FFIEC, SOC2, FedRAMP, STAR, etc.)
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Cyber Security, Computer Science, or related discipline
• 5 + years of experience working in the Cybersecurity Operations or Information Security
• Experience with information security risk management, including information security audits, reviews, and risk assessments

Nice To Haves

• Relevant technical and industry certifications, such as CISSP, ISSMP, SANS, GIAC, GCIA, CISM, CEH, GCFA, GCFE, GCIH, or GSEC are preferred
• Experience in one or more security domains including Incident Response and Forensics, Security Governance and Oversight, Security Risk Management, Network Security, or Threat and Vulnerability Management preferred
• Understanding of enterprise detection and response technologies and processes (advanced threat detection tools, intrusion detection/prevention systems, network packet analysis, endpoint detection and response, firewalls, Anti malware/anti-virus, Security Information and Event Management tools, etc.)
• Experienced with CrowdStrike, Tanium, Proofpoint, WAF, O365 security, AWS Security, Wireshark, tcpdump, and open-source incident response and forensic tools
• Ability to perform risk analysis utilizing logs and other information compiled from various sources
• Understanding of network protocols, operating systems (Windows, Unix, Linux, databases), and mobile device security
• Knowledge in one or more security domains including Security Governance and Oversight, Security Risk Management, Network Security, Threat and Vulnerability Management, or Incident Response and Forensics
• Knowledge of cloud security, networks, databases, and applications
• Knowledge of the various types of cyber-attacks and their implementations
• A fundamental understanding of enterprise cybersecurity frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and Cyber Kill Chain
• Ability to document and explain technical details in a concise, understandable manner
• Experience in operational processes such as security monitoring, data correlation, troubleshooting, security operations, etc.

Responsibilities

• Conduct analysis of artifacts to determine methods of intrusion and best course of resolution while driving security improvement
• Security event monitoring, investigation, and overall incident response process
• Investigate potential cybersecurity events across multiple environments using various tools and techniques
• Development of information security policies, standards, and procedures
• Understanding of offensive security to include common attack methods
• Understanding of how to pivot across multiple datasets to correlate artifacts for a single security event
• Support inquiries from compliance teams such as IT risk management and internal and external auditors to ensure documentation is complete and processes are in compliance with information security policies
• Create reports analyzing activities or trends both within and outside of the organization
• Support the development of security operations detections, playbooks, and automations to ensure threat detection, monitoring, response, and forensics activities align with best practices, minimize gaps in detection and response, and provide comprehensive mitigation of threats
• Reviews internal logs and alerts to identify potential cybersecurity events.
• Triage cases based on output from automated alerts, and determine when to escalate to other teams
• Monitors external service provider activity to detect potential cybersecurity events
• Analyzes security data from all systems in real time to spot and thwart potential threats, attacks, and other violations
• Analyzes compromised systems and remediates to a clean state
• Performs breach indicator assessments to investigate network traffic for malicious activity
• Assists with internal or third-party employee investigations
• Assists in the production of various reports which identify and analyze relevant upcoming and ongoing threats to the enterprise
• Research evolving threats, techniques, tools, and vulnerabilities in support of information security efforts
• Stays current with information security program developments, industry frameworks, changes in the company, industry trends, and current security practices

Benefits

• Our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees