Senior Security Researcher, SIEM

Huntress

15d•Remote

About The Position

Huntress is a fully remote, global team of passionate experts and ethical badasses on a mission to break down the barriers to cybersecurity. Whether creating purpose-built security solutions, hunting down hackers, or impacting our community, our people go above and beyond to change the security game and make a real difference. Founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress protects all businesses—not just the 1%—with enterprise-grade, fully owned, and managed cybersecurity products at the price of an affordable SaaS application. The Huntress difference is our One Team advantage: our technology is designed with our industry-defining Security Operations Center (SOC) in mind and is never separated from our service. We protect 4M+ endpoints and 7M+ identities worldwide, elevating underresourced IT teams with protection that works as hard as they do. As long as hackers keep hacking, Huntress keeps hunting.

Requirements

Understand various log types + how they correlate to attacker tradecraft
Deployed and matured SIEM technology (vendor agnostic, preferred)
Performed successful threat hunting in SIEM platforms with particular focus on top security vendor log sources
Developed proofs of concept & set up attack simulation environments to generate logs and text attack paths
Experience working in a SOC
Built a metrics-driven tuning program
Executed coverage gap analysis
Skilled at translating current trends in cybersecurity for both technical and non-technical audiences
Skilled at translating MITRE TTPs to Customer value propositions
Skilled at researching emerging tradecraft
Experience triaging business email compromise, performing initial access root cause analysis, incident + threat analysis, with the ability to build a SIEM log detection strategy

Responsibilities

Define the value of a log. Not all log sources have equal security value, and not all logs from a single source hold the same value. You will support the processing strategy for our SIEM product to extract maximum security value from the narrowest set of logs
Support the security Capabilities we bring to market, implement the layered defense strategy gained by combining multiple log sources
Lead various vendor log source detection strategies + implementation
Hunt threat actors to discover attacker initial access, abuse, and persistence
Test attack paths. Develop high-efficacy detections & security product requirements that shut out attackers
Safely & ethically test exploitation of vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and attack paths that result in developing reliable and weaponized Proof-of-Concept (PoC) exploits for identified vulnerabilities
Identify telemetry that confirms malicious activity with high confidence, even when little or no environment baselines exist
Distinguish between suspicious and malicious login events to reach the highest accuracy true positive rate
Conduct research and development efforts to further threat detection and security posture
Document research findings through technical write-ups, advisories, internal reports, and blogs
Ensure Huntress SIEM alerts are highly accurate and customer-accepted. We strive for 99% accuracy for critical alerts
Collaborate with the Principal Researcher to deliver unified SIEM outcomes
Build high-trust, high-value product leads and cross-department relationships critical to successful product delivery & launch
Proven organizational skills with keen attention to detail and a sense of urgency to deliver exceptional outcomes under tight deadline pressures
Eagerness to engage, report, and be accountable to executive stakeholders
Passion to translate your expertise in nontechnical ways to deliver impactful security outcomes that protect the 99%
Promote Huntress’ reputation through media interaction, public speaking, and blogs
Educate the public on how to be security savvy in novel and fun ways