Exciting Security / Soc Analyst III, 6 months contract opportunity in Houston, TX.

Requirements

• 5 plus years experience in the security domain, Incident Response, threat monitoring, and handling incidents (incident triage and response)
• Determine detection requirements for data sources being on-boarded to the SIEM, and assessing the value of in place SIEM detection cases, in order to determine gaps and overlap in the overall detection scheme.

• Perform security monitoring and incident response of cyber security events for proper determination of being considered a cybersecurity event.
• Triage offenses for false positives
• Hands-on experience defining detection or protection schemes based on industry standards and frameworks.
• SIEM, Endpoint Detection and Response, Firewall/IPS/IDS, Proxy, Data Loss Prevention, Authentication
• Experience leveraging data from security technologies and referential data sources to define security detection requirements, including detections which correlate data across multiple data sources.
• Ability to interpret code in the support of detection case development.