Remote 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). Responsibilities include staying current on emerging threats, recommending security solutions, maintaining product updates, and acting as a team lead on large projects. This role requires a BS/MS degree with relevant experience and expertise in threat analysis, reverse engineering, and scripting. You'll contribute to innovative solutions and potentially contribute to patents or publications. KnowBe4 offers fantastic benefits including company-wide bonuses, referral bonuses, adoption assistance, tuition and certification reimbursements, 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 and APT phishing campaign analysis
• Well versed with IOCs, Reverse engineering and threat campaign tracking
• Script enabled for scripting automations for handling huge volumes of threat artifacts like files, emails, URLs etc
• Expertise in URL analysis, Phishing Email analysis and reverse engineering
• Recommend solutions for security product deployment and configurations
• Ability to think analytically & work collaboratively
• Provide coordination across functional boundaries
• Act as team lead for large projects
• Establish operational objectives and assignments
• Well versed with IOCs, Reverse engineering and threat campaign tracking
• Experience in malicious URL and phishing Email analysis
• Script enabled for scripting automations for handling huge volumes of threat artifacts like files, emails, URLs etc

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