Senior Cyber Security Analyst

We Are

Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond, and recover along all points of the security lifecycle. Cybersecurity challenges are different for every business in every industry. Leveraging our global resources and advanced technologies, we create integrated, turnkey solutions tailored to our clients’ needs across their entire value chain. Whether we’re defending against known cyberattacks, detecting and responding to the unknown, or running an entire security operations center, we will help companies build cyber resilience to grow with confidence. Our team of the security sector’s brightest people use the coolest tech to out-hack the hackers and help clients build resilience from within. We blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle.

You Are

A cyber security savant. You’ve got the skills and experience to keep data safe from black hat hackers or other threats, whether by coding a threat intrusion module or sharing your latest ideas with the team. Day-to-day, you’re all about solving security problems for clients and using your people skills to make sure everyone on your team is working well and happily.

The Work

• Investigate attacks against customer networks.
• Analyze log data, network traffic and/or alerts generated by a variety of security technologies in real-time; escalate and explain validated security incidents to customers.
• Write up security incident reports detailing the threat, its characteristics, and possible remediation activities.
• Review and tune detections as needed.
• Identify opportunities for automating incidents and assist the analysis team in automation efforts.
• Identify areas for improvement and contribute towards positive change.
• Research new threats and ensure appropriate detection capabilities are in place to identify and respond to these threats.
• Routinely review security incidents and other customer deliverables for adherence to the established procedures and guidelines. Document, rectify, and provide feedback to other analysts as necessary.
• Mentor and train other analysts.
• Ensure the quality and timeliness of the security incident detection and classification service.
• Ensure standards and procedures are adhered to within defined SLA’s.
• Articulate security issues to customers, both verbally and written.
• Strong Understanding of current vulnerabilities, attacker TTPs, and countermeasures.
• Working directly with Windows OS internals and Linux and programming languages such as Python, Java, C# and the ability to automate basic tasks is preferred.
• Developing knowledge of security technologies, cyber-attacks, and vulnerabilities.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and act with the team’s support.
• Work within a 24x7x365 team to further support the timely delivery of monitoring services and support across multiple customers.
• Participate in on-call efforts on a rotational basis.

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