Senior Threat Analyst_Australia

at  Sophos

ABOUT US

Sophos is a worldwide leader and innovator of advanced cybersecurity solutions, including Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and incident response services and a broad portfolio of endpoint, network, email, and cloud security technologies that help organizations defeat cyberattacks. As one of the largest pure-play cybersecurity providers, Sophos defends more than 500,000 organizations and more than 100 million users globally from active adversaries, ransomware, phishing, malware, and more. Sophos’ services and products connect through its cloud-based Sophos Central management console and are powered by Sophos X-Ops, the company’s cross-domain threat intelligence unit. Sophos X-Ops intelligence optimizes the entire Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem, which includes a centralized data lake that leverages a rich set of open APIs available to customers, partners, developers, and other cybersecurity and information technology vendors. Sophos provides cybersecurity-as-a-service to organizations needing fully managed, turnkey security solutions. Customers can also manage their cybersecurity directly with Sophos’ security operations platform or use a hybrid approach by supplementing their in-house teams with Sophos’ services, including threat hunting and remediation. Sophos sells through reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.

READY TO JOIN US?

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ROLE SUMMARY

Sophos evolves to meet every new challenge, protecting more than 400,000 organizations of all sizes in more than 150 countries from today’s most advanced cyber threats. Powered by SophosLabs, our cloud-native and AI-enhanced solutions can adapt and evolve to secure endpoints and networks against never-before-seen cybercriminal tactics and techniques. Managed through our award-winning, cloud-based platform, Sophos Central, our best-of-breed products work together through our unique Synchronized Security system to share threat intelligence and respond to evolving threats. The Sophos suite of products secures networks and endpoints against automated and active adversary breaches, ransomware, malware, exploits, data exfiltration, phishing, and more.
As a Senior Threat Analyst on our Managed Detection Response (MDR) team, you will provide best-in-class monitoring, detection, and response services to defend customer environments proactively before attacks prevail. You will work alongside and contribute to a team of cyber threat hunters, incident response analysts, engineers, and ethical hackers by using enterprise, log analysis, and endpoint collection systems to facilitate investigations, identification, and neutralization of cyber threats.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Handle escalations from Tier I & II Threat Analysts - guide / advise on investigation handling
• Drive threat hunting efforts to identify potential threats throughout the MDR customer base
• Perform Incident Response and Management
• Onboard and train new Threat Analysts
• Detection and response to security events and cyber-threats
• Conduct security log management and monitoring
• Maintain information security metrics
• Create cases, track and follow up with clients through threat neutralization
• Interact with clients via various mediums.
• Participate in Security Operations process improvement and creation.
• Collaborate and assist core security and threat response teams
• Obtain metrics for reporting on threat trends, intelligence analysis, and situational awareness.
• Actively research recent Indicators or Compromises/Attack, exploits, and vulnerabilities