Full Description and Link to Apply

Meet the Team

Talos Threat Research is composed of highly skilled individuals who are comfortable working in a fast-paced and technically challenging environment. We are tasked with improving the detection and alerting capabilities of the Cisco security suites. Part of this work includes researching threat actor tactics and techniques, malware and exploitation methods to add to the detection and prevention capabilities of the respective products.

Your Impact

Are you passionate about the changing threat landscape, love the challenge of understanding how advanced adversaries compromise novel environments, and want to drive positive change across a broad organization?

This position allows you the ability to conduct research into the attack landscape of cloud and network security and apply your findings to the development of detection content which will reduce information security risk to organizations protected by Cisco security products. It requires a professional with a strong security and threat analysis background, including experience with offensive techniques in the cloud and network domains as well as how threat actors leverage these techniques to conduct their operations.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS Degree and 5+yrs experience
• Experience working with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, including architecture and configuration
• Experience with operating system internals including Windows and Mac OS. 
• Experience in writing and validation of threat signatures such as Sigma, Snort, Yara, Clam or OpenIOC

Preferred Qualifications:

• Incident response experience
• Some familiarity with software engineering processes such as Git, CI/CD and agile development (this is not a development role, but some knowledge of processes utilized by software engineers is useful)
• Process development & Documentation experience
• Data analysis and interpretation skills
• Background in or knowledge of Quality Assurance