Principal Insider Threat Analyst

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Verizon is looking for an innovative and driven leader with insider threat security operations experience. This role is responsible for supporting a 24x7x365 geographically dispersed team who detects, analyzes, and responds to suspicious activities and potential insider threats. In this role, you will be responsible for maturing and enhancing our existing insider threat defense capabilities by collaborating on efforts to design and implement improved processes and technologies within Verizon's unique security landscape. You will work closely with key cross-functional stakeholders to develop a program tailored to utilizing proactive and mitigating measures to detect and respond to potential threats to Verizon’s infrastructure, employees, and intellectual property.  

This role is a part of Verizon Cyber Defense’s Insider Threat Operations (ITO) team under the Verizon CyberSecurity (VCS). The mission of the ITO team is to protect Verizon by preventing, detecting, and investigating all insider threats by malicious or negligent employees, contractors and vendors with minimal disruption to the line of business.

Primary Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supporting the day-to-day operations for insider threat investigations, ensuring the case management and alert development life cycles are followed or adjusted when necessary. 

• Conducting continuous enterprise-wide insider threat monitoring with ability to review end user activity and identify threats from SEIM dashboards and tool consoles; this includes identifying and responding to automated alerts as well as conducting in-depth analysis and examination on all available information to find potential insider threats.

• Responsible for accurate and complete investigations and ensuring tasks like case follow up, lessons learned, and case studies are conducted and socialized with  appropriate stakeholders.  

• Reviewing and providing feedback to analysts about case work and escalations.

• Developing, following and maintaining documentation, which provide a visual depiction of various insider threat operations workflows to support an innovative program and bolster overall security practices. 

• Producing metrics, status updates of operational tasks, as well as high level case overviews and executive summaries for technical and non-technical audiences.

• Assisting with the development and implementation of global insider threat use cases surrounding data exfiltration, internal fraud, privilege escalations, as well as IT sabotage for desktops, laptops, servers, mobile, virtual and multi-cloud environments.

• Researching industry trends and best practices in order to ensure alerting and case management processes are evolving with the cybersecurity field. 

• Coordinating and leading meetings with relevant investigative stakeholders and business partners when necessary.

• Collaborating on efforts to support the growth and maturity of ITO’s enhanced monitoring capabilities of critical data and high valued assets. 

• Assisting with the developing team goals and providing support for prioritizing and executing tasks to successfully achieve organizational objectives. 

• Promoting an environment of collaboration and individual accountability when it comes to problem-solving, decision-making, and process improvement.  

• Supporting team growth and development and employee mentorship.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

• Experience with implementation of cybersecurity, network defense, and investigative frameworks (such as NIST CSF, ISO 27000 series, MITRE ATT&CK, Lockheed Martin Cyber Kill Chain, etc.) into network defense processes.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Knowledge of SOC or similar environment methodology, including threat monitoring, intrusion detection, analysis, threat determination, incident handling and remediation tracking.

• Experience defending against insider threats by leveraging tools like UEBA and DLP.

• Experience interpreting data from network security tools and infrastructure technologies such as SIEM, firewall, proxies, IPS/IDS devices, full packet capture (FPC), and email platforms.

• Knowledge of the cyber threat landscape, including types of adversaries, campaigns, and the motivations that drive them.

• Experience working with analysis techniques, identifying indicators of compromise, threat hunting, and identification of intrusions and potential incidents.

• Experience integrating subject profiling and criminal examination best practices into investigative procedures to supplement technical evidence.

• Understanding of system development life cycle (waterfall & agile) experience.

• Certifications like: CERT's ITPM, Network+, Security+, CISSP, CISM, CFE, CISA, CPCI, CCP, and/or Six Sigma Greenbelt or Lean certification.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes working from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office, which will be set by your manager. Employees are responsible for maintaining compliance with hybrid work policies.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity 

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Benefits and Compensation

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, stock incentive programs, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.

The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. For part-time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.The annual salary range for the location(s) listed on this job requisition based on a full-time schedule is: $120,500.00 - $231,000.00.