Sr. Lead Analyst, Cybersecurity

Role Purpose

Corning is searching for a Sr Lead Analyst, Cybersecurity, to join our team in the U.S.!

In this position, you will perform data analysis, incident response, investigative analysis, and research on existing and emerging cyber threats, particularly those directed against the company's global networks. You will be charged with part of leading the maturation and optimization of our cyber threat intelligence processes and capabilities. Using various intelligence sources including open-source intelligence to development custom detections and mitigation opportunities to protect global manufacturing operations.  You will be expected to "think like an adversary" and engage in threat hunting operations leveraging your understanding of the tactics, techniques and procedures employed by advanced threats combined with intelligence from multiple sources and provide reporting and briefings to other teams and leadership in order to maintain appropriate levels of situational awareness.

This role can be worked remotely within the continental United States.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, create, and distribute Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) reports for new or emerging threats and threat vectors to all stakeholders.
• Support the develop detections to identify adversary activity at all levels of attack paths using multiple platforms and tools.
• Leverage understanding of tactics, techniques and procedures associated with advanced threats to create and evolve custom detections, mitigations against highly dynamic threats to the enterprise for at all levels of adversary attack paths.
• Analyze network and host activity associated with intrusion attempts by advanced attackers.
• Perform network traffic analysis utilizing raw packet data, net flow, IDS, and custom sensor output and mentor cyber analysts.
• Support enterprise incident response efforts.
• Employ advanced forensic tools and techniques for attack reconstruction and threat intelligence gathering streamlining, documenting, and sharing updated processes.
• Proactively research advanced and emerging cyber threats, and apply analytical understanding of attacker methodologies, system vulnerabilities, and key indicators of attacks and exploits to provide reporting, mitigations, and detections for cyber risks.
• Participate in and collaborate on all sharing platforms and working groups using achieve common goals.
• Provide on-call support for incident response efforts outside of core hours as needed.

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For compliance with U.S. regulatory requirements, this position is limited to citizens of the United States, lawful permanent residents, or protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).

Experiences/Education - Required

• Bachelor’s degree in information security, Computer Science, or similar field
• 7+ years of threat analysis and incident response experience.  (additional years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of Bachelor’s degree)
• Experience performing "deep dive" analysis and correlation of log data and forensic artifacts from multiple sources.
• Understanding of cyber threat models, including ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain, Racetrack, Diamond Model, etc.
• EDR tools, Microsoft Defender preferred. Splunk (preferred) or similar SIEM-type platform.
• Conventional network and host-based intrusion analysis, digital forensics, or malware analysis.
• Incident response activities
• Strong understanding of Operating Systems and Network Protocols.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Windows administrative tools, and the Unix/Linux command line.
• Must meet the following requirement: Current U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., or protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)

Experiences/Education - Desired

• Previous experience as Threat Researcher and/or Intelligence Analyst.
• Capable and comfortable communicating actionable threat intelligence to both technical and executive-level stakeholders.
• Relevant certifications such as (CISSP, SANS GIAC, CEH, etc.) preferred.
• Familiarity with customizing Sysmon.
• Familiarity with common languages (like PowerShell and Python) to parse logs, automate processes, and integrate systems.
• Capable to perform adversary emulation to validate mitigations and detections.
• Experience with dynamic malware analysis, and reverse engineering.
• Experience in cryptography or cryptanalysis.
• Ability to create, modify, and implement both Snort and YARA signatures, sharing best practices with colleagues.
• Published research papers at conferences or through other mediums (blogs, articles).
• Working knowledge of Computer Network Exploitation (CNE), or Computer Network Attack (CNA) tools and techniques.
• A deep understanding of advanced cyber threats targeting enterprises, along with the tools, tactics, and procedures used by those threats.
• Experience applying threat and data modeling, advanced data correlation, and statistical analysis to develop alerts, notable events, investigative dashboards, and metrics driven reports.

Travel Requirement

• Up to 10%