Senior Information Security Analyst - Insider Risk Team Lead

Summary

Join Western Digital's Insider Risk team as a team lead, spearheading digital forensic investigations and mentoring team members. This hands-on role demands strong investigative, computer forensics, and analytical skills. You will lead investigations, develop threat indicators, and collaborate with various teams and stakeholders. A deep understanding of operating systems, network protocols, and data formats is crucial. The position requires experience in DLP, understanding user behaviors endangering intellectual property, and the ability to communicate technical details effectively. Western Digital offers a competitive compensation and benefits package.

Requirements

• Ability to independently complete assigned responsibilities, drive forensics investigations, oversight and mentor international team, deliver investigation reports to managers, legal, and executive management
• Working knowledge of DLP: able to explain and articulate events and user activity
• Understanding of user behaviors that endanger company’s intellectual property: able to explain possible methods of IP egress from company computers
• Understanding of system behavior and artifacts associated with using removable media and file shares: able to explain what artifacts present themselves when a removable media is connected and removed from a system, including Windows, MacOS, and Linux
• Understanding of firewall and DNS logs for identification of data leaks to cloud storages and other services: should be able to read firewall and DNS logs and explain communication details
• Be able to communicate in written and spoken English with managers (up to C level) and Legal team to explain DLP events and provide escalation information
• Working understanding of technical terms related to DLP events and ability to explain them to non-technical people
• Able to read and interpret basic scripts in Python and PowerShell

Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for digital forensic investigations
• Interface with legal
• Mentor insider risk team members
• Lead investigation of threat signals
• Develop your own indicators
• Mentor and coach more junior team members
• Be in frequent communication with business leaders, legal, and members of other teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous law enforcement investigation background
• Understanding of machine learning principles

Benefits

• Paid vacation time
• Paid sick leave
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Life, accident and disability insurance
• Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Employee assistance program
• Other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
• Tuition reimbursement
• Transit
• The Applause Program
• Employee stock purchase plan
• The Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan
• Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan
• Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program
• Restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents