Threat Researcher - Cisco Cognitive Intelligence Team

LOCATION:

Prague, Czech Republic

AREA OF INTEREST

Malware - Research - Threat Intelligence

JOB TYPE

Professional

TECHNOLOGY INTEREST

Security, Analytics, Big Data, Cloud

What You'll Do

You will help to identify, analyze, and classify potential threats and malicious activity using the power of Cisco Cognitive Intelligence machine learning capabilities. You will help design new ways of identifying and tracking down threat actors. You will be collaborating with highly skilled machine learning experts, with the security community and you will be in close touch with our customers. You will participate in publishing security blogs and reports, and you will help to measure and improve efficacy of our detections.

Who You’ll Work With

We are a team originating from 5 former startups. We keep an agile, fun, passionate upstart culture within Cisco but we benefit from Cisco expertise and the position in the security market.

We are developing complex systems for network cyber threats detection using Machine learning and Artificial intelligence. We analyze network traffic, endpoint, and email of many millions of the devices all over the world to detect suspicious behavior. We contribute our technology to several Cisco security products.

The local Threat Research Team works closely with R&D to propagate threat research to the products. We build and maintain the core threat intelligence.

Who You Are

We are looking for a senior and/or junior threat researcher to join our threat research team.

Minimum qualifications for the role:

-       Experience in Security Operations Center (SOC), incident response, or security specialist role. Tier 1 analysts with curiosity and growth potential are encouraged to apply

-       Bc/MSc or solid relevant experience

-       Solid knowledge of network security, network traffic analysis, and threat intelligence

-       Understanding of core networking protocols (DNS, TLS, HTTP, etc.)

-       Hacking mindset, proactive, independent and problem solver

-       Fluent English

-       Capability to formulate, explain, and present technical as well as non-technical arguments

-       Teamwork spirit and excitement to work on complex cutting-edge systems for detection of modern malware and advanced cyber threats

Desired Skills:

-       Knowledge of the current threat landscape, and the goals and methods of current malicious actors

-       Experience in scripting and/or code prototyping on Big Data infrastructures would be an important plus

-       Experience in presenting malware research in public conferences would be a strong plus

-       Experience in authoring malware research blogs and reports would be a strong plus

Why Cisco

At Cisco, each person brings their unique talents to work as a team and make a difference. Yes, our technology changes the way the world works, lives, plays and learns, but our edge comes from our people.

•  We connect everything – people, process, data and things – and we use those connections to change our world for the better.

•  We innovate everywhere - From launching a new era of networking that adapts, learns and protects, to building Cisco Services that accelerate businesses and business results. Our technology powers entertainment, retail, healthcare, education and more – from Smart Cities to your everyday devices.

•  We benefit everyone - We do all of this while striving for a culture that empowers every person to be the difference, at work and in our communities.

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Saludos cordiales y a disposición,