Insider Threat Analyst
About The Position
Advance your career while impacting our national security in cyber as an Insider Threat Analyst at GDIT. Here, technologists have many paths to grow a meaningful career supporting cyber missions and operations across the federal government. MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT As an Insider Threat Analyst the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of USCENTCOM. You will play a crucial role in performing Tier 1-3 level review of insider case events; use data mining tools to collect and analyze large amounts of information to triage potential insider indicators and respond to confirmed incidents. Bring your cyber expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT.
Requirements
- Education: Bachelor's degree
- Certification: Current DoD-8570 IAT Level II and DoD-8140
- Experience: 3+ years of related experience
- Technical skills: At least 1 year of incident response / analysis experience / Special Security Office or OPSEC background
- At least 6 months of UAM or insider threat detection experience
- Demonstrated experience with Insider Threat detection capabilities.
- Demonstrated knowledge of network traffic and communications, including known ports and services.
- Demonstrated experience with MS Office Suite of Applications (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, etc.)
- Demonstrated experience in coordinating with internal and external stakeholders, especially Law Enforcement and Counterintelligence
- Knowledge of incident handling procedures.
- Security clearance level: TS/SCI
- US citizenship required
Nice To Haves
- Completion of Center for Development of Security Excellence (CDSE) core Insider Threat training competencies
- Counter Insider Threat Professional Certification (Fundamentals or Analysis)
- Completion of the 40-hour Insider Threat Detection and Analysis or the Defense Insider Threat Management Analysis HUB Course
- Completion of vendor provided UAM Basic or Advanced Course.
- Understanding of core current cybersecurity technologies as well as emerging capabilities.
- Demonstrated understanding of the life cycle of cybersecurity threats (internal and external), attacks, attack vectors and methods of exploitation with an understanding of intrusion set tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs).
- Knowledge of computer security principles and DoD security protocols
- Motivated self-starter with strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to create complex technical reports on analytic findings.
- Comfortable with briefing senior government military and civilian leaders
Responsibilities
- Triage and analyze UAM alerts
- Document and report findings to impacted stakeholders
- Provide information to the UAM Lead for customer trending and reporting
- When needed, provide on call response as required by government lead
- Participate and provide support to the Command Insider Threat Working Group Stakeholders and other relevant meetings where Insider Threat Analyst representation is needed
- Provide recommendations on ways to improve the Insider Threat UAM detection platform
- Use advanced behavior analytics to detect compromised users and their activities and assess risk
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
- 401K with company match
- Competitive pay and paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
- Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
