Summary description:
Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers’ most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets.Nightwing is supporting a U.S. Government customer to provide support for onsite incident response to civilian Government agencies and critical asset owners who experience cyber-attacks, providing immediate investigation and resolution. Contract personnel perform investigations to characterize of the severity of breaches, develop mitigation plans, and assist with the restoration of services. Nightwing is seeking a Cyber Threat Analyst to support this critical customer mission.
Job description:
Responsibilities:- Assists the Government lead in coordinating teams in preliminary incident response investigations- Assists the Government lead with interfacing with the customer while on site- Determines appropriate courses of actions in response to identified and analyses anomalous network activity- Assesses network topology and device configurations identifying critical security concerns and providing security best practice recommendations- Assists with the writing and publishing of Computer Network Defense guidance and reports on incident findings to appropriate constituencies- Collects network intrusion artifacts (e.g., PCAP, domains, URI’s, certificates, etc.) and uses discovered data to enable mitigation of potential Computer Network Defense incidents- Analyzes identified malicious network activity to determine weaknesses exploited, exploitation methods, effects on system and information- Collects network device integrity data and analyze for signs of tampering or compromise- Assists with real-time CND incident handling (i.e., forensic collections, intrusion correlation and tracking, threat analysis, and advising on system remediation) tasks to support onsite engagements
Nightwing has numerous Cybersecurity roles available. Check out our website for more career opportunities on our carer page: https://nightwing.com/company.
Eligibility factors:
All Services
willing to relocate to Sterling, VA area
