Associate Director DDIT ISC Detection & Response

In addition to accountabilities listed above in Job Purpose:

• Security Monitoring and Triage
  • Monitor in real time security controls and consoles from across the Novartis IT ecosystem
  • Communicate with technical and non-technical end users who report suspicious activity
• Forensics and Incident Response
  • Conduct initial investigations into security incidents involving a variety of threats
  • Gather live evidence from endpoint devices and log sources from a variety of systems and applications
  • Support incident response activities including scoping, communication, reporting, and long term remediation planning
  • Review technical reports and escalations for completeness and accuracy
• Big Data analysis and reporting:
  • Utilizing SIEM/Big data to identify abnormal activity and extract meaningful insights.
  • Research, develop, and enhance content within SIEM and other tools
• Technologies and Automation:
  • Interface with engineering teams to design, test, and implement playbooks, orchestration workflows and automations
  • Research and test new technologies and platforms; develop recommendations and improvement plans
• Day to day:
  • Perform host based analysis, artifact analysis, network packet analysis, and malware analysis in support of security investigations and incident response
  • Coordinate investigation, containment, and other response activities with business stakeholders and groups
  • Develop and maintain effective documentation; including response playbooks, processes, and other supporting operational material
  • Perform quality assurance review of analyst investigations and work product; develop feedback and development reports
  • Provide mentoring of junior staff and serve as point of escalation for higher severity incidents
  • Develop incident analysis and findings reports for management, including gap identification and recommendations for improvement
  • Recommend or develop new detection logic and tune existing sensors / security controls
  • Work with security solutions owners to assess existing security solutions array ability to detect / mitigate the abovementioned TTPs
  • Creating custom SIEM queries and dashboards to support the monitoring and detection of advanced TTPs against Novartis network

Minimum Requirements:
Work Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in Incident Response / Computer Forensics / CSOC team / Threat Hunting or related fields
• Experience in reporting to and communicating with senior level management (with and without IT background, with and without in depth risk management background) on incident response topics
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills; interpersonal and collaborative skills; and the ability to communicate information risk-related and incident response concepts to technical as well as nontechnical audiences
• Excellent understanding and knowledge of general IT infrastructure technology and  systems
• Proven experience to initiate and manage projects that will affect CSOC services and technologies
• Experienced IT administration with broad and in-depth technical, analytical and conceptual skills

Skills:

• Good mediation and facilitation skills
• Good knowledge of IT Security Project Management
• Experience with security incident monitoring and response related to medical devices
• Knowledge of (information) risk management related standards or frameworks such as COSO, ISO 2700x, CobiT, ISO 24762, BS 25999, NIST, ISF Standard of Good Practice and ITIL
• Knowledge of security frameworks such as Hitrust
• Host and network based forensic collection and analysis
• Dynamic malware analysis, reverse engineering, and/or scripting abilities
• Proficient with Encase, Responder, X-Ways, Volatility, FTK, Axiom, Splunk, Wireshark, and other forensic tools
• Understanding of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) and associated tactics.
• Research, enrichment, and searching of indicators of compromise
• Very strong team and interpersonal skills along with the ability to work independently and achieve individual goals.
• Coordinate with other team members to achieve the specified objectives.
• Effective oral and written communication skills