Senior Cybersecurity Threat Researcher

Summary

Join KnowBe4's Threat Research Lab as a Senior Cybersecurity Threat Researcher. You will deploy and configure various security products (endpoint, email, web, and network protection). Stay current on emerging threats and security technologies, recommending solutions for product deployment and configurations. Maintain licenses and product updates, coordinating across teams and leading large projects. Establish operational objectives and assignments. This role requires a BS or equivalent plus 4 years of experience (or MS/equivalent plus 2 years).

Requirements

• BS or equivalent plus 4 years experience
• MS or equivalent plus 2 years experience
• 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
• Experience designing, implementing & hardening systems
• Ability to think analytically & work collaboratively
• Email analysis skills to determine PHISHING, Clean and Spam emails
• Ability to identify PHISHING email campaigns
• Ability to identify new trends in PHISHING email campaigns
• Ability to contribute to blogs and posts related to latest trends and new methodologies in PHISHING email campaigns
• Ability to work with high volume of emails for accurate email classification
• Expertise in static and dynamic analysis of URLs and Files
• Expertise in URL analysis for identification of PHISHING and scam URLs
• Well versed with creating Yara rules for email grouping and clustering
• Must be script enabled to automate daily email classification tasks
• Contribute to automation engineering for inputs related to current threat space
• Keep up to date with emerging threats & security technologies

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
• Provide coordination across functional boundaries
• Act as team lead for large projects
• Establish operational objectives and assignments

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