Cyber Threat Analyst, Senior

Cyber Threat Analyst, Senior

Key Role:

Be responsible for analyzing and assessing foreign cyber operations, threat environments, and technical requirements. Characterize current foreign cyber capabilities and project future cyber systems and all-domain cyber systems to highlight the threat to the National Security Space Enterprise. Apply knowledge of cyber threats, networks, and technology when using Intelligence Community (IC) tools and databases to identify, extract, and analyze pertinent information, and provide technical analysis to support protection initiatives. Integrate cyber into the targeting, planning, and overall military strategy. Develop cyber order of battle, target information and products, intelligence, and target selection standards. Perform red tech scouting and track emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and trends by monitoring various internal and external sources, including Publicly Available Information or Commercially Available Information, formal intelligence reports, social media, proprietary threat feeds, network traffic logs, and alerts. Characterize blue modes and methods of battlefield communications vulnerable to adversary cyber-attacks. Identify cyber tactics used to mitigate C5ISR architectures. Engage IC partners to develop integrated analysis plans, solicit further insights, and collaborate on additional research. Identify information gaps and threat information needs to task IC entities via standard IC tasking processes and requests for information tools to influence and prioritize the IC Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination process. Author and coordinate threat assessment products on foreign cyber capabilities combining intelligence information and Department of Defense (DoD) technical and operations analysis in collaboration with IC and DoD partners. Analyze beyond incident response to hardening of the environment of future space architecture, involving performing periodic risk analysis and penetration tests to identify exploitable weaknesses of space assets. Search proactively for undetected and evolving threats through analysis, and be responsible for fixing vulnerabilities and reporting proper security measures as recommendations.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience with cyber warfare analysis and production in the DoD or IC
• Experience researching and analyzing Malicious Cyber Actors (MCAs)
• Knowledge of the components of cyber warfare, including penetration testing, supply chain analysis, defensive cyber operations, and information warfare
• Knowledge of IC reporting, sources, dissemination mechanisms, and tradecrafts
• Knowledge of both U.S. service and national security space systems and architectures
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment, focused on networking with IC partners
• Top Secret clearance
• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, CS, or IT
• CompTIA Security+ Certification

Additional Qualifications:

• Experience providing intelligence support to research and development efforts
• Experience working in special access programs and special access required environments
• Knowledge of adversarial frameworks, including MITRE ATT&CK for mapping tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), Cyber Kill Chain Methodology, and Diamond Model of Intrusion Analysis
• Knowledge of current USSPACECOM, USCYBERCOM, and component intelligence operations
• TS/SCI clearance
• Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Certified Penetration Testing Professional (CPENT), Certified Threat Intelligence Analyst (CTIA), CompTIA CYSA+, EC-Council Certified Threat Intelligence Analyst (CTIA), or GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence (GCTI) Certification

Clearance:

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Top Secret clearance is required.

Compensation

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Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $77,600.00 to $176,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

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Work Model
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