Incident Response Lead
Offer summary
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or related fields., Minimum of 5+ years of incident response or digital forensics experience., Demonstrated knowledge of network threats, attack vectors, and methods of exploitation., Familiarity with regulatory frameworks such as NIST, HIPAA, and PCI. .Key responsabilities:
- Drive incident response engagements and guide customers through forensic investigations.
- Coordinate incident response assistance from team members and vendors.
- Conduct cybersecurity assessments and provide strategic guidance on security architectures.
- Evaluate and refine clients' incident response plans and provide recommendations for improvement.
Job description
About us
Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. Founded in 2017, Coalition combines broad insurance coverage with a digital risk assessment and continuous security monitoring to help organizations protect themselves in today’s hyper-connected world.
Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real - and happening daily.
About the role
As an Incident Response Lead your mandate is to protect our customers from loss by guiding teams of incident responders in digital forensics and incident response engagements with a wide variety of consumers. As a part of this mandate you will assist Coalition’s consumers through data breaches and claims events, guiding incident response efforts with our consumers and partners. You will own engagement planning, implementation, and communication, guiding and advising customers and their legal counsel. Incident Response Leads are also asked to provide advice on topics ranging from security architecture and cloud security to data protection and compliance.
Our team is composed of bright minds across many cybersecurity domains, with expertise in Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, Security Architecture, Cyber Risk Management, Security Strategy, Controls, Compliance, and Governance. We need you to be a self-starter, assured with consumers, and passionate about customer service. You will need to be able to drive the investigation of ransomware and business email compromise cases from scoping to report delivery.
Responsibilities
- Drive incident response engagements to guide our customers through forensic investigations, contain security incidents, and provide guidance on longer term remediation recommendations.
- Coordinate and guide incident response assistance from team members and vendors
- Investigate customer data breaches and malicious activity leveraging forensics tools; analyze Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X systems to identify Indicators of Compromise (IOCs); examine firewall, web, database, and other log sources to identify evidence of malicious activity.
- Lead proactive cybersecurity advisory and consulting engagements such as:
- Tabletop Exercises: lead and facilitate tabletop exercises designed to simulate real-world cyber incidents, helping clients enhance their incident response preparedness and resilience.
- Assessments: conduct comprehensive cybersecurity assessments to evaluate clients' security postures, identify vulnerabilities, and provide actionable recommendations for improvement.
- Documentation Reviews: evaluate and refine clients' incident response plans, policies, and procedures to ensure they align with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.
- Strategic Guidance and Client Engagement:
- Advisory Role: Provide strategic guidance to clients on enhancing their security architectures, cloud security strategies, and compliance frameworks such as NIST, HIPAA, and PCI.
- Long-Term Remediation: Beyond immediate incident containment, collaborate with clients to develop and implement longer-term remediation strategies to strengthen their security postures.
- Process Enhancement: Contribute to the refinement and improvement of internal processes, methodologies, and service offerings based on your consulting insights and industry expertise.
- Provide case reporting as required across internal and external audiences with the appropriate technical level of detail for threat researchers and/or business customers.
- Evaluate customer security programs, technologies, controls, and business environments; recommend and develop enhancements.
- Provide recommendations on solutions to help customers navigate information security risk.
- Track emerging security practices and contribute to building internal processes, and our various products.
- Stay abreast of the current regulatory environment, industry trends and related implications.
Skills and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or other relevant subjects.
- Minimum of 5+ years of incident response or digital forensics experience.
- Demonstrated practiced knowledge of the lifecycle of network threats, attacks, attack vectors, and methods of exploitation with a knowledge of intrusion set tactics, techniques, and procedures.
- Consultative Approach: Ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and provide actionable recommendations.
- Analytical Skills: Proficiency in analyzing security programs, technologies, and environments to identify gaps and recommend enhancements.
- Regulatory Knowledge: Familiarity with regulatory requirements and frameworks (e.g., NIST, HIPAA, PCI) is essential for advising clients on compliance issues.
- Project Management: Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously, from initial scoping through to final deliverables, ensuring high-quality results and client satisfaction.
- Knowledge of TCP/IP Protocols, network assessment and network/security applications, including log and network traffic capture assessment.
- Experience with Velociraptor, Axiom, FTK, SIFT, Volatility, ELK, WireShark, Plaso, Skadi or other open source forensic/log analysis/network assessment tools.
- Experience with EDR tools like CrowdStrike Falcon, Carbon Black, Sentinel One, etc.
- Knowledge of industry standard frameworks – NIST, HIPAA, PCI.
- Self-motivated; entrepreneurial spirit; comfortable working in a , dynamic environment.
- Strong interactive communication skills (verbal & written).
- Aptitude to learn technical concepts/terms, and aptitude to guide multiple tasks/projects simultaneously.
- Experience deploying tools to AWS and familiarity using Cloud based platform for assessment.
Bonus Points
- Security policy, governance, privacy or regulatory experience (e.g., NIST, ISO, HIPAA, PCI).
- Securing cloud based platforms (Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, etc.).
- Experience with system hardening procedures for Windows, Linux, Unix is helpful.Knowledge and/or experience with Nmap, Nessus, Nexpose, Qualys, Burp, Kali, Metasploit, Meterpreter, or other offensive tools is helpful.
- Knowledge of scripting for development of security tools and industry frameworks is helpful.
- SCADA/Control systems network experience is a plus.
Perks
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible PTO
- Annual home office stipend and WeWork access
- Mental & physical health wellness programs like Headspace, Lumino, and more!
- Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement
Why Coalition?
We’re a remote-first, mission-driven team committed to building a more inclusive culture with people of all different backgrounds. We trust our team members to take responsibility, share ownership, and put in the work to help us in our pursuit to solve digital risk.
Coalition’s exceptional growth stems from its ability to address real-world problems for organizations of all sizes and remain true to our founding values of character, humility, responsibility, purpose, authenticity, and inclusion.
We’re always looking for collaborative, inquisitive individuals to join #OurCoalition.
Privacy Notice
Coalition is committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal information responsibly. We collect, use, and store personal information as necessary for the recruitment process and in compliance with applicable privacy laws and regulations in all regions where we operate. We want you to understand what personal information we collect, how we use it, and your rights regarding access, correction, and deletion of your data where applicable. Information submitted, collected, and processed as part of your application is subject to Coalition's Privacy Policy. For further details, please review our full Privacy Policy or contact us with any questions regarding how your information is handled.
Anti-Discrimination Notice
Coalition is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals, without discrimination or harassment on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable laws in each country where we operate. This commitment includes, but is not limited to, ensuring equal treatment in recruitment, selection, training, promotion, transfer, compensation, and all other aspects of employment. Coalition does not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, and we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace.
Accommodations
Coalition is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities, including applicants and employees, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations in each country where we operate. Our policy is to support equal opportunity in the hiring process by considering qualified applicants regardless of disability or other protected characteristics, unless providing accommodation would impose an undue hardship or disproportionate burden. If you require accommodation to complete an application, interview, pre-employment testing, or participate in the selection process, please contact us at candidateaccommodations@coalitioninc.com. We also consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in line with applicable laws and regulations in each jurisdiction.
To all potential candidates: Coalition primarily does not use third-party recruiting services. Potential candidates will only be contacted by Coalition, Inc. during the recruitment process. You can always verify any opportunity on our official careers page http://www.coalitioninc.com/careers.
To all recruitment agencies: Coalition does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Do not forward resumes to our email alias, employees, or other physical or virtual organization locations. Coalition is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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- Governance
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- Self-Motivation
- Teamwork
- Communication
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