Threat Intelligence Consultant

Summary

Join GuidePoint Security's Research & Intelligence Team (GRIT) as a Consultant and leverage your expertise to help clients achieve their Threat Intelligence goals. You will be a technical resource providing actionable intelligence for DFIR investigations, authoring comprehensive engagement deliverables, fostering client relationships, and utilizing automation to improve efficiency. The role involves contributing to threat research, integrating tools, and strengthening skills to stay at the forefront of information security. GuidePoint offers a collaborative environment with opportunities for growth and development. This is a primarily remote position (U.S. based), with potential travel required for some roles.

Requirements

• Two (2+) years of experience performing Threat Intelligence analysis
• Five (5+) combined years of IT and information security experience

Responsibilities

• Operate as a technical resource within the Practice and actively participate in DFIR investigations to provide actionable intelligence
• Effective engagement communication, time management, and collaboration with peers and clients
• Author comprehensive engagement deliverables that are tailored to both technical and managerial audiences; fully detail the technical findings, recommendations, business impact, and realistic remediation strategies
• Foster client relationships by providing support, information, and guidance
• Utilize automation, orchestration, and scripting to reduce manual processes, improving overall efficiency while also enabling new capabilities to meet the rapidly changing needs of our clients
• Contribute to integration of existing and future open-source and commercial tools to help improve GRIT processes and procedures
• Perpetually strengthen relevant skills, knowledge, and abilities to stay at the forefront of the information security industry
• Maintain a strong desire to learn, adapt, and improve along with a rapidly-growing company

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in a Consulting Services role
• Experience implementing or improving operational processes or procedures in the intelligence analysis lifecycle
• Proficiency hunting APT data using open source or commercial cyber threat analytic tools or data repositories such as VirusTotal, Passive Total, Threat Miner, or Maltego
• Experience in scoping and conducting threat research centered on cybercrime, ransomware, and/or nation-state cyber operations
• Network traffic analysis
• Host forensics
• Malware handling / triage
• Log review
• Experience with a variety of industry-related solutions including EDR, SIEM, NDR, FW, NGAV, Velociraptor, OSQuery, and others
• Strong ability to correlate data and research using open-source repositories (ex. VirusTotal, Domaintools, Threatminer, etc.)
• Intermediate ability to present technical information and analysis to audiences up to 50 persons on a quarterly basis
• Ability to apply formal intelligence analysis methods, develop hypothesis, prove/disprove relationships, always ask why, defend your analysis, and apply attribution to cyber threat activity
• Ability to make confidence-based assessments for purposes of attribution based on their technical analysis of network traffic, multi-source data, malware and system analysis. Candidate must be able to identify analytic bias
• Experience with common programming languages including PowerShell, Python, BASH, Go, or others
• Experience with cloud technologies for the enterprise, such as Amazon Web Services, G Suite, Office 365, and Azure
• Awareness of attacker techniques, advanced threat groups, and integration of intelligence into an investigation
• Other relevant industry certifications, such as but not limited to CASP+, CySA+, GCIA, GCIH, GDAT, GCFE, GFCA, GREM, PMRP, and Sec+

Benefits

• Remote workforce primarily (U.S. based only, some travel may be required for certain positions, working on-site may be required for Federal positions)
• Group Medical Insurance options: Zero Deductible PPO Plan (GuidePoint pays 90% of the premium for employees and 70% for family plans (spouse/children/family) or High Deductible Health Plan with HSA (GuidePoint pays 100% of the employees premiums and 75% for family plans (spouse/children/family) and GPS will contribute in one lump sum: ($500 per EE annually / $1000 per family annually (includes spouse/children/family options)
• Group Dental Insurance: GuidePoint pays 100% of the premium for employees and 75% of family plans
• 12 corporate holidays and a Flexible Time Off (FTO) program
• Healthy mobile phone and home internet allowance
• Eligibility for retirement plan after 2 months at open enrollment
• Pet Benefit Option