Incident Response📣 Job Ad
in Acuative Middle East
about 1 hour ago
| Contract Type | Full-time | |
| Workplace type | On-site | |
| Location | Makkah |
About the Role
Acuative Middle East is seeking a skilled Incident Response professional to join its team in Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position is integral to protecting clients from global cyber incidents. The role requires an articulate, collaborative individual with a proven ability to support clients and colleagues, often developing innovative solutions to complex challenges.
Key Responsibilities
- Respond to global cyber incidents caused by internal and external threats to customers, which may involve non-traditional working hours.
- Detect, contain, and remediate threats by understanding current adversary attack methods.
- Assist with scoping incidents, gaining consensus on objectives with customers, and participating in emergency engagements as part of an incident response consultant team.
- Collaborate on developing written assessments and reports for both internal and customer-facing audiences, including technical teams, leadership, and executive management.
- Serve as a liaison to different businesses and interface with team members and colleagues on other security teams.
- Participate in Incident Response (IR) related consulting projects as directed.
- Contribute to process improvement by developing and documenting enhancements for efficient, consistent, and scalable consulting operations.
- Assist in developing public-facing materials such as blog posts, podcasts, whitepapers, or conference presentations.
Required Qualifications
- Foundational familiarity and understanding of host-centric analysis utilizing forensic tools such as EDR, X-Ways, Volatility, Cisco Secure Endpoint, and Velociraptor.
- Familiarity with network forensic analysis and the ability to leverage network telemetry for investigations.
- Clear understanding and communication of the Incident Response Lifecycle and the Kill Chain (Attack) Life Cycle as it relates to known adversary activity.
- Demonstrated capability to map technical findings to business impacts and communicate these effectively to non-technical audiences.
- Familiarity with threat hunting theory and the ability to proactively hunt for adversaries on customer networks using various tools and techniques.
- Understanding of Table-Top Exercises, with a preference for prior experience in conducting or participating in them.
- Understanding of performing Incident Response Readiness Assessments for customers, including conducting interviews and document review.
- Willingness to be on-call and work off-shift hours, potentially including nights, weekends, and holidays.
Key Skills and Competencies
- Incident Response
- Adversary attack analysis and remediation
- Host-centric analysis using forensic tools (*, EDR, X-Ways, Volatility, Cisco Secure Endpoint, Velociraptor)
- Network forensic analysis and network telemetry
- Understanding of the Incident Response Lifecycle and Kill Chain (Attack) Life Cycle
- Translating technical findings into business impacts
- Incident scoping and objective consensus
- Threat hunting methodologies and tools
- Table-Top Exercise facilitation and participation
- Incident Response Readiness Assessment
- Written communication and reporting
- Collaboration and team interaction
- Process improvement and documentation
- Familiarity with current cyber security threats, attacks, and countermeasures, such as Ransomware, Cyber Crime, and Hacktivism
- Interest in recognized IT Security-related standards and technologies
- Prior experience in information security and handling/investigating cyber security incidents is preferred.
Additional Information
This is a full-time position based in Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. The role requires 5-10 years of relevant experience. Industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, GCIH, CFCE, GCFA, GNFA, and/or GCFE are beneficial but not a strict requirement.
Requirements
- Requires 5-10 Years experience
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