Company Overview
Founded in 1999, Mindlance is one of the largest diversity-owned staffing firms in the US and has been on SIA’s list of Fastest Growing US Staffing Firms for 10 years. Mindlance has also been recognized as one of the consistently best performing partners to industry-leading MSP programs including Allegis, Kelly, TAPFIN, PROUnlimited, Pontoon, GRI, WorkforceLogiq and Agile-1. What started with contingent staffing has developed to a comprehensive portfolio of workforce solutions. Along with industry specific, talent-centric staffing across a range of specializations- Technology, Engineering, Scientific, Clinical Research, Digital, Creative, Marketing, Profession, Mindlance provides Managed Recruitment services- RPO and Direct + Diverse Sourcing, and Pay+ Services- EoR/Payroll, IC Compliance and AoR. Mindlance is also generating alternative talent pipelines that prioritize diversity through three Diverse Talent Acceleration offerings: (1) RebootTalent, a diverse returning talent acceleration service (2) Mindlance Diversphere, a private diverse talent pool aggregated from a network of diversity partnerships and (3) Quintrix Solutions, an upskilling recruit-train-deploy service. With a year-over-year growth rate of 20% and an annual revenue of over $400 million and growing, the Mindlance story is one of calculable achievement, made meaningful by the commitment to grow a mindful way that creates balance in the work and societal ecosystem. Visit www.mindlance.com to learn more about us and our latest job openings.
About the job
Location: Atlanta, GA/ Zebulon, NC
Position: Cyber Incident Specialist
Duration: 18+ Month (Contract to Hire)
Description:
Day-to-Day:
• As a Cyber Response Specialist, you’ll play a key role in protecting our organization by helping ensure effective incident response. Your ability to communicate clearly, build relationships, and energize others will be as important as your technical expertise. This position will be instrumental in maintaining a number of important documents, knowledge base entries, investigation guides, and response guides. We’re seeking someone who enjoys teamwork, loves learning, and is motivated by tackling problems in collaboration with others.
• The Cyber Response Specialist is an office-based role within the 24/7 Cyber Fusion Center (CFC) organization. This role will be specialized in learning about our perimeter and will advise on ways to improve monitoring and incident response around perimeter attacks.
• Experience working in highly collaborative face-to-face situations with different stakeholders across an organization is important.
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related field of relevant education, certification, or related training.
• Two years of experience in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or related work
• Knowledge of one or more cloud platforms and cloud security
• Knowledge of general information technology (IT) and cybersecurity
• Knowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies.
• Knowledge of network traffic analysis and packet-level analysis using appropriate tools (e.g., Wireshark, tcpdump).
• Knowledge of operating systems, including Windows/Unix ports and services.
• Knowledge of modern identity and access management concepts
• Knowledge of phishing tactics and techniques
• Knowledge of advanced cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
• Knowledge of cyber-attack stages (e.g., reconnaissance, scanning, enumeration, gaining access, escalation of privileges, maintaining access, network exploitation, covering tracks).
• Knowledge of incident response and handling methodologies.
• Knowledge of threat hunting techniques
• Knowledge of countermeasures to address a variety of threats
• Knowledge around leveraging automation, ML, and/or AI
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