Introduction

Your Role and Responsibilities

IBM Consulting Cybersecurity Services is seeking a Senior Threat Hunter to join a global Threat Hunting team. This is an opportunity to be part of a global team of innovative and highly trained individuals focused on cybersecurity threat hunting and continuous improvement of security operations monitoring and response capabilities.

  • Develop or contribute to the development of core fundamental components of the Threat Hunting program.
  • Dedicate primary daily focus to searching for threats and anomalies in different environments.
  • Execute both proactive and reactive Threat Hunting activities to identify and mitigate advanced threats supported by CTI, incident response and other inputs.
  • Work closely with the intelligence team for continuous visibility of critical vulnerabilities, threat actors, threat actor campaigns, TTPs, and changes in the cyber threat landscape.
  • Generate Threat Hunting reports in different formats (Word, PPT, etc.) and for different audiences (executive, technical, etc.).
  • Documentation and management of a hunting library aligned to MITER ATT&CK®.
  • Develop content and execute activities that support continuous improvement of threat monitoring and detection using BAS tools.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Working knowledge of Cyber Kill Chain, MITER ATT&CK® and how each methodology can be applied to Threat Hunting.
  • Experience in detecting advanced attack methodologies through log analysis in tools such as EDR, SIEM, FW, etc.
  • Experience with detection firms such as Sigma, YARA, SIEM queries, EDR, Kestrel, etc.
  • Knowledge of Windows, Linux/*NIX and macOS operating systems, as well as command line tools.
  • Experience with Python, JavaScript and/or PowerShell.
  • Knowledge of Jupyter Notebooks.
  • Knowledge of common TTPs used by threat actors, as well as the tools and methods to hunt them.
  • Knowledge of tools such as Safe Breach, Cymulate, etc.
  • Use of Microsoft Office office package.
  • Desired certifications: eCTHP, GCFA, CompTIA Pentest+, CySA+.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

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