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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.
The Work
The Cyber Intelligence Operations Analyst is responsible for the following:
The responsibilities of this role include researching and reporting on developments in the threat landscape, building network and endpoint detections, and coordinating internal teams to best defend our customers. This includes but is not limited to the following responsibilities:
Writing, editing, and publishing technical reports
Developing and deploying network and endpoint detections to support a Security Operations Center analysis team
Performing data analysis to optimize SOC procedures
Prioritize and remediate internal maintenance requests to ensure a well-run global analytics platform
Assist in the coordination and implementation of major detection enhancements to SOC analytics
Coordinating analysis teams to best educate on and respond to developments in the Threat Landscape
Developing policies and procedures for handling security incidents
Occasional weekend on-call support required
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Here’s What You Need
Minimum of 2 years of IT security experience – ideally focused on intrusion detection/network security monitoring and/or working with cyber threat intelligence
Minimum of 1 year working in the information security threat landscape, including detailed technical knowledge about the most prevalent threat groups, malware, attack methods, and vulnerabilities
Minimum of 1 year experience researching security threats and developing detection mechanisms to defend against them
Minimum 1 year of hands-on experience with market-leading security products, including intrusion detection systems (Snort/SourceFire, IBM Proventia/ISS, McAfee IntruShield) and firewalls (CheckPoint, Cisco PIX)
Bonus Points If
In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP and routing, firewall technologies, information security principles and practices
Experience working with clients, preferably in an operational environment.
Experience researching complex technical subject matter and documenting the results/key findings
One or more of the following certifications is desired: CISSP, GCIA, GCIH, GCFA.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)
As required by Colorado law under the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in Colorado. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific office location. For the state of Colorado only, the range of starting pay for this role is 130k -163k and information on benefits offered is here.
COVID-19 update:
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Subject to applicable law, please be aware that Accenture requires all employees to be fully vaccinated as a condition of employment. Accenture will consider requests for accommodation to this vaccination requirement during the recruiting process.
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