Overview
Malware Analyst Jobs in Ashburn, Virginia, USA at Leidos
Title: Malware Analyst
Company: Leidos
Location: Ashburn, Virginia, USA
Type: Full Time
Category: IT/Tech, Security
Location: Ashburn
Description
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At Leidos, we deliver
innovative solutions
through the efforts of our
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and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.
Leidos is seeking an experienced Cyber Analyst to
join our team
covering both forensics and malware analysis on a highly-visible cyber security single-award IDIQ vehicle that provides network operations security center (NOSC) support, including monitoring and analysis, cyber threat intelligence, email analysis, forensics, incident response, and malware analysis.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Network Operations Security Center (NOSC) is a U.S. government program responsible to monitor, detect, analyze, mitigate, and respond to cyber threats and adversarial activity on the DHS Enterprise. The DHS NOSC has primary responsibility for monitoring and responding to security events and incidents detected at the Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) and Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) and is responsible for directing and coordinating detection and response activities performed by each Component SOC.
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Duties
include
dynamic
malware analysis, and performing memory and dead-box forensics. The Analyst should have experience in monitoring and detection, and incident response to support detection, containment, and eradication of malicious activities targeting customer networks. Acting as an escalation point for other NOSC analysts, the Analyst will perform the following:
• Support investigating computer and information security incidents to determine extent of compromise to information and automated information systems.
• Conduct comprehensive analysis of all types of computer code, particularly malicious code to discover unknown, suspicious or exploitation activity.
• Collaborate with analytical counterparts and across the U.S. Intelligence Community and apply knowledge of network fundamentals, open-source tools, and current implementation of those technologies in order to devise strategies to pursue access and exploitation of targets of interest.
• Help cross train and mentor other NOSC Support Staff.
• Participate in briefings to provide expert guidance on new threats.
• Author reports and/or interface with customers for ad-hoc requests.
• Participate in discussions to make recommendations on improving NOSC visibility or process.
The Cyber Forensics and Malware Analysis Team provide support during core business hours (7am – 7pm), Monday thru Friday EST.
Flexible start times
are considered. Participates in rotating on-call schedule.
• Primary Responsibilities
• Perform long-term …
