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Cyber Defense Analyst

Ft. Meade / Columbia, MD · Information Technology
Why Work at SI?

Secure Innovations (SI) successfully and continuously strives to become experts in the Cybersecurity field by only focusing on Cyber!  Because of this, we proudly stand behind our motto, "We're Not Standard Cyber. We're the Cyber Standard."

SI was built on the principle that people matter first and foremost.  SI believes in providing a strong work/life balance by investing in our employees and encouraging professional and personal growth.  We do this by offering exceptional benefits, flexible schedules, and the tools necessary to achieve success through paid training, mentoring, and the opportunity to work alongside top-notch security professionals.

Secure Innovations was recently awarded as PRIME on this mission-focused cyber program!  

The Cyber Defense Analyst  uses information collected from a variety of sources to monitor network activity and analyze it for evidence of anomalous behavior. Identifies, triages, and reports events that occur in order to protect data, information systems, and infrastructure. Finds trends, patterns, or anomaly correlations utilizing security-relevant data. Recommends proactive security measures. Conducts analysis to isolate indicators of compromise. Notifies designated managers, cyber incident responders, and cybersecurity service provider team member of suspected cyber incidents and articulate the event’s history, status, and potential impact for further action in accordance with the organization’s cyber incident response plan.

The Cyber Defense Analyst shall possess the following capabilities:
  • Use cyber defense tools to monitor, detect, analyze, categorize, and perform initial triage of anomalous activity.
  • Generate cybersecurity cases (including event’s history, status, and potential impact for further action) and route as appropriate.
  • Leverage knowledge of commonly used network protocols and detection methods to defend against related abuses.
  • Apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation).
Qualifications:
No demonstrated experience is required.

Requires DoD 8570 compliance with Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level I or Level II certification (A+, Network+, CCNA-Security, CND, SSCP, Security+, CySA+, GSEC, etc)
 

An Active Clearance w/ FS Poly is REQUIRED

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