Principal Security Analyst

Summary

Join KnowBe4's Threat Research Lab as a Principal Cybersecurity Threat Researcher! You will deploy and configure various security products (endpoint, email, web, and network protection), stay updated on emerging threats, and recommend solutions. This role requires experience designing, implementing, and hardening systems, along with strong analytical and collaborative skills. You will act as a team lead for large projects and contribute to innovative solutions. KnowBe4 offers fantastic benefits including company-wide bonuses, referral bonuses, adoption assistance, tuition and certification reimbursement, and more.

Requirements

• BS or equivalent plus 8 years experience
• MS or equivalent plus 4 years experience
• Keep up to date with emerging threats & security technologies
• Threat Intelligence and Analysis Open Source Threat Intelligence gathering and enrichment
• Threat Actor Attribution
• Threat Hunting
• Dark web and deep web for Threat Intelligence
• Phishing Email Analysis URL/Attachment Analysis
• YARA rules for identifying Phishing campaigns/Patterns and Phishing kits
• Email Security Expertise In-depth knowledge of email security protocols and standards (e.g., SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
• Experience in analyzing and mitigating email-based threats, including phishing, spoofing, and business email compromise (BEC)
• Understanding of email infrastructure and ability to conduct email header analysis
• Social Engineering Research Phishing and social engineering Research
• Phishing Campaign Analysis
• Phishing Kits Analysis
• Reporting and Communication Threat Report creation
• Publishing articles and Blogs on the latest threats
• Technical Skills Good Python automation skills (actively working on Python on daily basis)
• Creating and implementing YARA rules

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, maintain various cybersecurity products in a lab environment. This includes endpoint, web, email and network protection products
• Keep up to date with emerging threats & security technologies
• Recommend solutions for security product deployment and configurations
• Maintain license and product updates
• Experience designing, implementing & hardening systems
• Ability to think analytically & work collaboratively
• Provide coordination across functional boundaries
• Helps to translate KnowBe4's strategic goals into operational plans
• Act as team lead for large projects
• Make significant new contributions in technology, sometimes resulting in patents, trade secrets, and/or professional publications and presentations
• Provide coordination across functional boundaries
• Establish operational objectives and assignments
• Contribute as a technical expert to the development of new principles and concepts, providing solutions that are highly innovative and ingenious and cross diverse technical areas

Benefits

• Company-wide bonuses based on monthly sales targets
• Employee referral bonuses
• Adoption assistance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Certification reimbursement
• Certification completion bonuses
• A relaxed dress code