Cyber Defense Analyst

Job Brief
Sign-on and relocation expenses negotiable.

The Alaka`ina Foundation Family of Companies (FOCs) has a need for a Cyber Defense Analyst to support our government customer located in Honolulu, HI .

DESCRIPTION OF RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Coordinate with enterprise-wide cyber defense staff to validate network alerts.
2. Document and escalate incidents (including event's history, status, and potential impact for further action) that may cause ongoing and immediate impact to the environment.
3. Perform cyber defense trend analysis and reporting.
4. Perform event correlation using information gathered from a variety of sources within the enterprise to gain situational awareness and determine the effectiveness of an observed attack.
5. Perform security reviews and identify security gaps in security architecture resulting in recommendations for the inclusion into the risk mitigation strategy.
6. Provide daily summary reports of network events and activity relevant to cyber defense practices.
7. Receive and analyze network alerts from various sources within the enterprise and determine possible causes of such alerts.
8. Provide timely detection, identification, and alerting of possible attacks/intrusions, anomalous activities, and misuse activities and distinguish these incidents and events from benign activities.
9. Use cyber defense tools for continual monitoring and analysis of system activity to identify malicious activity.
10. Analyze identified malicious activity to determine weaknesses exploited, exploitation methods, effects on system and information.
11. Identify and analyze anomalies in network traffic using metadata (e.g., CENTAUR).
12. Conduct research, analysis, and correlation across a wide variety of all source data sets (indications and warnings).
13. Identify applications and operating systems of a network device based on network traffic.
14. Other duties as assigned.

REQUIRED DEGREE/EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION:

1. A BS degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Information Systems, or Computer Science.
2. Must meet at least one of the following baseline certifications in lieu of education: GFACT, GISF, Cloud+, GCED, PenTest+, Security+, or GSEC.
3. Minimum of 20 hours annually of continued education.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

1. Knowledge of Intrusion Detection System (IDS)/Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) tools and applications.
2. Knowledge of cyber defense and vulnerability assessment tools, including open source tools, and their capabilities.
3. Knowledge of intrusion detection methodologies and techniques for detecting host and network-based intrusions via intrusion detection technologies.
4. Knowledge of network protocols such as TCP/IP, Dynamic Host Configuration, Domain Name System (DNS), and directory services.
5. Able to perform packet level analysis.
6. Skilled in collecting data from a variety of cyber defense resources.
7. Knowledge of cyber defense policies, procedures, and regulations.
8. Able to recognize and categorize types of vulnerabilities and associated attacks.
9. Must meet DoD 8140 Cyber Defense Analyst (511).

REQUIRED CITIZENSHIP AND CLEARANCE:

1. Must be a U.S. Citizen.
2. Must have an active TOP SECRET/SCI clearance OR a TOP SECRET clearance with the ability to upgrade.

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