The Security Researcher & Analyst role involves managing threat data feeds, automating processes, researching IoCs, and supporting product development in cybersecurity.
Available Locations: Austin, TX
Overview
Initially this is a very tactical role, focused on supporting Intel Team's day-to-day operations.
Intel team consumes approximately 35 different threat data feeds, runs 5 different machine learning models, and has data integrated into six different products in the Cloudflare portfolio.
Key Responsibilities
Overview
Initially this is a very tactical role, focused on supporting Intel Team's day-to-day operations.
Intel team consumes approximately 35 different threat data feeds, runs 5 different machine learning models, and has data integrated into six different products in the Cloudflare portfolio.
Key Responsibilities
- Review domain miscategorizations
- Maintain Application classifications
- Review email miscategorizations
- Submit IOCs to data pipeline based on external reports
- Define automations and software requirements for support tooling
- Define processes and procedures to create 24x7 coverage of miscategorizations
- Continually evaluate the quality of threat data feeds, work to maximize value from them, evaluate new potential sources of data
- Research observed IoCs and network behavior patterns and label data
- Work with data scientists to identify security threats and create machine learning models
- Be a team SME and resource for data scientists building security models and application developers building security products
- Become a subject matter expert for internal teams consuming Intel team security and categorization data
- Become the owner for Intel Team's strategy for false positive controls
- Learn and understand current processes
- Identify gaps and risk areas
- Work the data scientists to test remediation strategies
- Work the engineering teams to implement remediation strategies
- Define and implement metrics for product efficacy
- Research and plan potential software, data science or machine learning projects to improve false positive and false negative rates
- Continually monitor data quality and bring data quality issues and proposed solutions to team leadership
- Identify topical areas in cybersecurity where Cloudflare's unique network can be leveraged to improve user security
- Write blog posts and communicate both internally and externally about Intel Team's work
- Execute daily operational tasks and define automations to streamline operational tasks
- Work with team to define technical requirements for security products
- Research threats, exploits, and TTPs being defended against in products and work with engineers to create products that defend against them
- Scripting in Python and Node/Javascript
- Able to use git to create, edit, and review pull requests
- Basic front-end or full-stack development skills preferred but not required
- Knowledge of and passion for cybersecurity
- Knowledge of cyber security industry terms and concepts
- e.g. MITRE ATT&CK Framework, Lockheed Killchain
- Ability to learn about security threats and map them to the MITRE ATT&CK framework and Lockheed Killchain
- Strong knowledge of networking and "how the Internet works"
- DNS, HTTP, TCP/IP, TLS, public key encryption
- Ability to reliably execute several hours a day of operational support tasks
- Ability to communicate to stakeholders and management when priorities change
Top Skills
Git
JavaScript
Machine Learning
Node.js
Python
Cloudflare Austin, Texas, USA Office
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