Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. McGraw Hill is a leading educational organization seeking a Cybersecurity Analyst to join their Global Technology Services team. The role involves monitoring security alerts, responding to incidents, and collaborating with various teams to enhance cybersecurity measures.

Responsibilities

• Monitor the McGraw Hill Splunk SIEM platform for security alerts
• Handle 2 daily transition calls with the evening SOC team in India, at 9:15 AM EST and 4:15 PM EST
• Perform standard operating procedures (SOPs) for each alert type, to quickly respond to security alerts and investigate them until closure
• Work with IT personnel to report violations and close security alerts
• Leverage our security automation tool (Splunk SOAR) for responding to incidents
• Escalating any P1 (high priority) alerts immediately to the SOC manager
• Perform phishing email attack investigations
• Perform triage steps when end users fall victim to attacks
• Perform threat hunting on attack techniques commonly used by adversaries
• Provide testing and supplemental support for Cybersecurity engineer project tasks
• Track security incidents in a spreadsheet for monthly metrics
• Perform daily, weekly, and monthly threat hunting tasks

Skills

• A passion for infosec, analytical skills and a quick learner
• Basic cybersecurity skills
• General understanding of servers, applications, LDAP, DNS, IP addressing and subnetting, ports
• Familiarity with Splunk and how to run Splunk queries is a bonus
• Awareness or knowledge of Python and PowerShell is a bonus
• Strong communication skills
• Understanding of email headers
• General understanding of malware sandboxing technology
• Understanding of malware and phishing tools/techniques
• General understanding of AI and MCP
• Experience triaging cloud and web-app related security alerts
• AWS and/or cybersecurity related training and certifications are a plus

Benefits

• A full range of medical and/or other benefits may be provided, depending on the position offered

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