Summary
Fortinet is seeking a Senior Consultant for its FortiGuard Incident Response team in Saudi Arabia. The role leads and supports customer incident response engagements, performs host and network forensics, analyzes malware and logs, and mentors other consultants. It also involves using FortiEDR, preparing reports and presentations, and contributing to threat research. Applicants need a relevant bachelor’s degree or at least 5 years of incident response or forensics experience, and must be available for occasional night and weekend engagements.
The posting
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We are looking for a Senior Consultant – FortiGuard Incident Response to work in a dynamic and exciting new position reporting to the Director of Operations for FortiGuard Security Consulting Services. The analyst will work directly with members of a world class incident response and forensics team. Our team is comprised of individuals with strong knowledge in malware hunting and analysis, reverse engineering, multiple scripting languages, forensics and threat actors TTPs. In this very hands-on customer facing role the consultant’s main objective is to lead and manage the incident response engagements and train/mentor other security consultants. Leveraging your in-depth understanding of the threat actors’ tactics, techniques, procedures and tools as well as our flagship FortiEDR tooling you will need to quickly glean situational awareness to provide guidance to the team members as well as to the client. In addition, from time to time the candidate will help to create threat research work products such as blogs and presentations. To be successful in this role the candidate must be possess strong consulting skills, deep technical skills and able to work under tight timelines.
Responsibilities:
- Assist the IR Lead during engagements and mentoring/training junior analysis
Continue to focus on process improvement for the customer facing incident response services
Conduct host-based analysis and forensic functions on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X systems
Conduct network forensics and log analysis during IR engagements
Review firewall, web, database, and other log sources to identify evidence and artifacts of malicious and compromised activity
Leverage our FortiEDR Platform to conduct investigations to rapidly detect and analyze security threats
- Perform memory forensics and file analysis as needed
- Monitor underground forums, our FortiGuard Threat Labs, along with other open-source intelligence outlets to maintain proficiency in latest actor tactics and techniques
Preform basic reverse engineering of threat actor’s malicious tools
Develop complete and informative reports and presentations for both executive and technical audience
Availability during nights/weekends as needed for IR engagements
Required Skills:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills a must
- Experience interfacing with customers
- Experience with of at least one scripting language: Shell, Ruby, Perl, Python, etc
- Ability to data mine using YARA, RegEx or other techniques to identify new threats
Experienced with EnCase, FTK, X-Ways, SIFT, Splunk, Redline, Volatility, WireShark, TCPDump, and open source forensic tools a plus
- Experience with malware analysis tools such as IDA Pro, OllyDbg, Immunity Debugger
- Hands-on experience dealing with APT campaigns, attack Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs), memory injection techniques, static and dynamic malware analysis and malware persistence mechanism
- Strong knowledge of operating system internals and endpoint security experience.
- Able to communicate with both technical and executive personnel
- Static and dynamic malware and log analysis
- Analysis of Linux and MAC binary files and the understanding of MAC internals is a plus but not required.
- Highly motivated, self-driven and able to work both independently and within a team
- Able to work under pressure in time critical situations and occasional nights and weekends work
- A solid understanding of Active Directory and how to secure is a plus
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field
- Or 5+ years’ experience with incident response and or Forensics