Threat Research Engineer
On-sitePune, Maharashtra, India
Job Summary
Monitor, analyze, and research emerging cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits to identify novel TTPs and their related mitigations. Produce and test rules for hunting and enrichment, while analyzing the threat attack life-cycle including behavior, modus operandi, and objectives. Follow an exhaustive approach involving intelligence collection, signature creation, and initial malware analysis to research new detection methods and design approaches for identifying security breaches. Develop tools to automate and scale detection and response activities, and write detailed technical blog posts about discovered threats. Collaborate with security, malware research, product, and engineering teams to develop novel protection strategies and add cross-product intelligence.
Required Qualifications
- 7 years of relevant technical experience
- Expertise in Vulnerability Research
- Experience with threat hunting, incident response, or security operations
- Experience with common threat intelligence tools, such as VirusTotal, Shodan, etc.
- Understanding of security controls, forensics, kill chain analysis, risk assessment and security metrics
- Ability to perform initial static and dynamic malware analysis
- Understanding of reverse engineering techniques
- Knowledge of networking and the TCP/IP stack
- Knowledge of programming or scripting languages
- Knowledge of networking protocols and application file formats like PDF, Office files, and operating system internals
- E./B.Tech/M.Tech Computer Science/MCA/MCS from a reputed institution
Desired Qualifications
- Certifications in Computer Security domains
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