Senior Consultant DFIR Reactive Services - Remote Unit 42

Your Career

This role is clientfacing and requires the Senior Consultant to help lead and produce deliverables based on reactive services client engagements.  The Senior Consultant will work directly with multiple customers and key stakeholders (Admins CSuite etc) to lead incident response incidents and guide clients through the engagement from start to finish.

Your Impact

• Perform reactive incident response functions including but not limited to  hostbased analysis functions through investigating Windows Linux and Mac OS X systems to identify Indicators of Compromise (IOCs)
• Examine firewall web database and other log sources to identify evidence and artifacts of malicious and compromised activity
• Investigate data breaches leveraging forensics tools including Encase FTK XWays SIFT Splunk and custom Unit 42 investigation tools to determine source of compromises and malicious activity that occurred in client environments
• Lead incident response engagements to guide clients through forensic investigations contain security incidents and provide guidance on longer term remediation recommendations
• Mentorship of Incident Response Consultants in incident response and forensics best practices
• Ability to perform light travel requirements as needed to meet business demands (on average 30%)
• Weekend Shift: FridayMonday 

Qualifications :

Your Experience

• 4 years of incident response or digital forensics experience with a passion for cyber security 
• Proficient with hostbased forensics and data breach response
• Experienced with EnCase FTK XWays SIFT Splunk Volatility WireShark TCPDump and open source forensic tools
• Identified ability to grow into a valuable contributor to the practice and specifically
  • have an external presence via public speaking conferences and/or publications
  • have credibility executive presence and gravitas
  • be able to have a meaningful and rapid delivery contribution
  • have the potential and capacity to understand all aspects of the business and an excellent understanding of PANW products
  • be collaborative and able to build relationships internally externally and across all PANW functions including the sales team
• Incident Response Consulting preferred
• Bachelors Degree in Information Security Computer Science Digital Forensics Cyber Security or related field  or equivalent military experience required
• Fluent in Arabic and elligable to work in Saudi Arabia

Additional Information :

The Team

Unit 42 Consulting is Palo Alto Networks security advisory team.  Our vision is to create a more secure digital world by providing the highest quality incident response risk management and digital forensic services to clients of all sizes. Our team is composed of recognized experts and incident responders with deep technical expertise and experience in investigations data breach response digital forensics and information security. With a highly successful track record of delivering missioncritical cybersecurity solutions we are experienced in working quickly to provide an effective incident response attack readiness and remediation plans with a focus on providing longterm support to improve our clients security posture. 

Our Commitment

Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.

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