NIH - Incident Response Specialist

Remote
Full Time
NIH - CSS
Experienced
cFocus Software seeks a Incident Response Analyst to join our program supporting the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This position is remote. This position requires a Public Trust clearance.
Qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
  • Minimum 2–5 years of experience supporting cybersecurity operations or incident response activities.
  • Experience supporting incident response investigations and remediation activities.
  • Familiarity with SIEM tools, log analysis, and threat detection technologies.
  • Understanding of NIST cybersecurity frameworks and federal security requirements.
  • Ability to analyze security alerts and investigate potential cybersecurity incidents.
  • Strong analytical, documentation, and communication skills.
Duties:
  • Monitor security alerts and respond to cybersecurity incidents affecting NCATS systems.
  • Conduct incident triage, analysis, containment, eradication, and recovery activities.
  • Coordinate incident response activities with NCATS IT teams, security leadership, and NIH cybersecurity teams.
  • Maintain incident documentation and prepare incident response reports.
  • Support development and improvement of incident response procedures and playbooks.
  • Investigate and analyze security incidents to determine root cause, scope, and impact.
  • Perform technical analysis of system logs, network activity, and endpoint data during investigations.
  • Coordinate containment and remediation actions for identified incidents.
  • Maintain incident tickets and track investigation progress.
  • Develop post‑incident analysis reports and recommend improvements to strengthen defenses.
  • Support operational cybersecurity monitoring and response activities.
  • Assist with security monitoring tools such as SIEM, intrusion detection systems, and endpoint protection systems.
  • Participate in threat hunting and vulnerability mitigation activities.
  • Provide technical support for incident response exercises and security testing activities.
  • Support secure firewall management and network security monitoring activities.
  • Assist with implementation of firewall rules following least‑privilege and default‑deny principles.
  • Participate in firewall rule reviews and validation of network traffic logs.
  • Support monitoring of network segmentation controls and security zones.
  • Validate logging configurations to ensure compliance with federal logging requirements.


 
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