Specialist DDIT ISC Detection & Response

In addition to accountabilities listed above in Job Purpose:

• Security Monitoring and Triage
  • Monitor in real time security controls and alerts originating from the Novartis IT ecosystem
  • Communicate with technical and non-technical end users who report suspicious activity
• Forensics and Incident Response
  • Conduct initial investigations into suspicious events and activity
  • Gather live evidence and logs from a variety of devices and applications
  • Support incident response activities including scoping, communication, reporting, and long term remediation planning
  • Prepare technical reports for business stakeholders and IT leadership
  • Support response to major incidents as part of larger major incident response team
• 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 propose new automation and orchestration concepts
  • Research and test new technologies and platforms; develop recommendations and improvement plans
• Day to day:
  • Perform host based analysis, artifact analysis, network 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
  • 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
  • Participate in weekend/after hour on-call rotation to triage and/or respond to major incidents

EDUCATION

• University working and thinking level, degree in business/technical/scientific area or comparable education/experience
• Professional information security certification, such as CISSP, CISM or ISO 27001 auditor / practitioner is preferred. Professional (information system) risk or audit certification such as CIA, CISA or CRISC is preferred

EXPERIENCE

• 3+ years experience in cybersecurity / security operations
• Experience in Information Technology / Analytical role preferred
• Experience in IT administration with technical, analytical and conceptual skills
• Experience in reporting to and communicating technical and non-technical business stakeholders
• 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

SKILLS/JOB RELATED KNOWLEDGE

• Good mediation and facilitation skills
• Good knowledge of IT Security Project Management
• Understanding and knowledge of general IT infrastructure technology and  systems
• 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
• Familiarity 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

NETWORKS

• High level of personal integrity, and the ability to professionally handle confidential matters and exude the appropriate level of judgment and maturity
• Ability to handle competing priorities, and seeking consensus when stakeholders have different or even contradicting opinions

OTHER

• Fluency (written and spoken) in English