Sr. Analyst, Cybersecurity

**Date**:Jul 27, 2023

**Location**: Apodaca, NLE, MX, 66614

**Company**:Corning

Requisition Number: 61161

Corning is vital to progress - in the industries we help shape and in the world we share.

We invent life-changing technologies using materials science. Our scientific and manufacturing expertise, boundless curiosity, and commitment to purposeful invention place us at the center of the way the world interacts, works, learns, and lives.

Our sustained investment in research, development, and invention means we’re always ready to solve the toughest challenges alongside our customers.

Our Optical Communications segment has recently evolved from being a manufacturer of optical fiber and cable, hardware and equipment to being a comprehensive provider of industry-leading optical solutions across the broader communications industry.This segment is classified into two main product groupings - carrier network and enterprise network. The carrier network product group consists primarily of products and solutions for optical-based communications infrastructure for services such as video, data and voice communications. The enterprise network product group consists primarily of optical-based communication networks sold to businesses, governments and individuals for their own use.

**Scope of Position**:
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 EDR capability through the development of custom content that focuses on threat actor TTPs and reduces false positives. 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.

**Responsibilities**:

- Develop host-based detection content in Microsoft Defender
- 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.
- Lead, support, and mentor team enterprise incident response efforts.
- Leverage understanding of tactics, techniques and procedures associated with advanced threats to create and evolve custom detections that mitigate highly dynamic threats to the enterprise.
- Employ advanced forensic tools and techniques for attack reconstruction and threat intelligence gathering streamlining, documenting, and sharing updated processes.
- Contribute to threat intelligence reports and briefings that provide situational awareness of cyber threats impacting the company's global network infrastructure, to every level of the organization.
- Collaborate using information and knowledge sharing networks and professional relationships to achieve common goals.
- Provide on-call support for incident response efforts outside of core hours as needed.

**Education and Experience**:

- Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of threat analysis and incident response experience - additional years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of Bachelor's degree
- Relevant certifications (CISSP, SANS GIAC, CEH, etc.)

**Required Skills**:

- Understanding of cyber threat models, including ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain, Racetrack, Diamond Model, etc.
- Experience working with EDR tools, Microsoft Defender preferred
- Experience with Splunk (preferred) or other SIEM-type platform
- Experience in conventional network\host-based intrusion analysis, digital forensics, or malware analysis.
- Experience performing "deep dive" analysis and correlation of log data and forensic artifacts from multiple sources.
- Experience in incident response activities
- Strong understanding of Operating Systems and Network Protocols.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Windows administrative tools, and the Unix/Linux command line.

**Preferred Skills**
- Capable and comfortable communicating actionable threat intelligence to both technical and executive-level stakeholders.
- Familiarity with customizing and deploying Sysmon
- Familiarity with common languages (like Perl and Python) to parse logs, automate processes, and integrate systems.
- Previous experience as Threat Researcher and/or Intelligence Analyst.
- 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