Cybersecurity Incident Response Analyst

Summary

This is a hands-on security position working within the Information Security group and with the internal IT department at large. This position's core focus is to ensure consistent, measurable end to end triage and closure of security related events. The successful candidate will work to assess, develop, and deploy detection capabilities ensuring enterprise systems and data are protected.

The Role

We are looking for candidates who have a passion for Cyber Security, Threat Detection, Threat Hunting, and Incident Response. You will be a key part of our efforts to build and support a defensible environment where we are able to detect, contain and respond quickly to threats and compromise in ways that serve to enable the business needs a highly collaborative organization. The environment is fast-paced and commonly on the leading edge of technology, including early adoption of various cloud services along with the challenges of integrating those services into our security practice.

Responsibilities

• Conduct day-to-day Incident Response activities as well as additional SOC related detection and response activities as required for a global environment
• Design, engineer, and implement runbooks and playbooks for Incident Response
• Coordinate with both technical and business stakeholders during the incident response process.
• Perform host based, cloud based, network based, memory, or log analysis and/or forensics in support of Incident Response investigations.
• Play an active role in CAA's Security Incident Response efforts, working to identify and mitigate information security threats
• Review security information, event logs, and reports, provide findings and recommendations
• Use input from IRM leadership and key security metrics to ensure technical security controls are meeting desired objectives; implement a process of continual review and improvement to ensure the measurable effectiveness of CAA's technical controls
• Other projects or duties as assigned, including periodic on-call

Required Capabilities

• A minimum of 3 years in Information Technology, ideally with 2 years' experience in a hands-on Incident Response, Threat Hunting, or forensics role
• A bachelor's or master's degree in a relevant field of work
• Strong technical background with experience in at least two of the following
• Windows disk and memory forensics
• Network traffic analysis (netflow,pcap)
• Log Analysis
• Unix or Linux disk and memory forensics
• Malware analysis - both static and dynamic
• A strong understanding of the fundamental operations of servers, operating systems, networks, firewalls, cloud applications, and infrastructure
• Expertise building workflows and playbooks to facilitate the Incident Response process
• an understanding of the NIST framework and using a continuous improvement loop
• has built and managed frameworks to test and validate the effective operation of security controls; measuring the ability to respond to threats and attacks at the earliest point in the kill chain.

• Location
• This position will be based in our LA office.

Compensation

Los Angeles, CA - $102,000 - $123,000

This position is also eligible for benefits and a discretionary bonus. Ultimately, the salary may vary based upon factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in the role, business sector, and geographic location, among other criteria. Please talk with a CAA Recruiter to

Benefits

At CAA, we offer a competitive compensation and benefits* package for all regular full-time employees:

Benefits

Benefits where the company pays 80%-100% of the cost include:

• Medical
• Basic Life and AD&D Insurance
• Telemedicine
• Employee assistance and mental health counseling in person, virtually or through text
• Paid Vacation / Holidays
• Paid Sick Time
• Paid Parental Leave and Other Paid Leaves of Absence
• NICU leave
• Bereavement resources
• Adoption Benefits
• Educational Assistance
• Mental Health Resources
• Employee Assistance Plan

Benefits

Employees may also elect to participate in voluntary benefits:

• Dental, Vision Insurance
• 401K Plan
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Health Care and Dependent Care)
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance

Employee Perks

• Commuter Benefits

• *Benefits offered also include other statutory mandated benefits
• The absence of a permanent address is not a bar to employment. The Company does not discriminate against individuals based on housing status, including the absence of a fixed address.

CAA does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless they were contractually engaged by CAA to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any such employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the acknowledgement and agreement that CAA will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.