cFocus Software Incorporated
NIH - SOC Analyst
NIH - ISPSS - Remote - Full Time
cFocus Software seeks a SOC Analyst to join our program supporting the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This position is fully remote. This position requires a Public Trust or the ability to obtain a public trust clearance.
Qualifications:
Duties:
Qualifications:
- Public Trust Clearance
- B.S. Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- Minimum 2 years of Security Operations Center (SOC) or cybersecurity monitoring experience.
- Experience monitoring enterprise security environments.
- Experience investigating cybersecurity incidents.
- Knowledge of SIEM platforms and security monitoring technologies.
- Understanding of NIST SP 800-61 Computer Security Incident Handling Guide.
- Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK Framework.
- Ability to obtain and maintain NIH suitability/background investigation.
Duties:
- Continuously monitor enterprise security systems and Security Operations Center (SOC) dashboards.
- Analyze security alerts generated by SIEM, IDS/IPS, EDR, cloud security, and network monitoring platforms.
- Identify indicators of compromise (IOCs) and suspicious activity.
- Correlate security events across multiple technologies to identify potential cyber threats.
- Monitor Windows, Linux, cloud, network, and endpoint environments for malicious activity.
- Perform initial incident triage and classification.
- Analyze security events to determine severity, scope, impact, and priority.
- Validate potential security incidents and reduce false positives.
- Escalate confirmed incidents to Tier 2 and Tier 3 Incident Response personnel.
- Maintain incident tickets throughout the incident lifecycle.
