Senior Cybersecurity Threat Researcher (Position located in Bangalore, India)

About KnowBe4

KnowBe4, the provider of the world's largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, is used by tens of thousands of organizations around the globe. KnowBe4 enables organizations to manage the ongoing problem of social engineering by helping them train employees to make smarter security decisions, every day.

Fortune has ranked us as a best place to work for women, for millennials, and in technology for four years in a row! We have been certified as a "Great Place To Work" in 8 countries, plus we've earned numerous other prestigious awards, including Glassdoor's Best Places To Work.

Our team values radical transparency, extreme ownership, and continuous professional development in a welcoming workplace that encourages all employees to be themselves. Whether working remotely or in-person, we strive to make every day fun and engaging; from team lunches to trivia competitions to local outings, there is always something exciting happening at KnowBe4.

Please submit your resume in English.

The Senior Cybersecurity Threat Researcher works in the KnowBe4 Threat Research Lab, and is responsible for deploying and configuring various security products and solutions such as endpoint, email, web and network protection.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy, configure, maintain various cybersecurity products in a lab environment; This includes endpoint, web, email and network protection products
• Keep up to date with emerging threats & security technologies
• Recommend solutions for security product deployment and configurations
• Maintain license and product updates
• Provide coordination across functional boundaries
• Act as team lead for large projects
• Establish operational objectives and assignments

Requirements:

• BS or equivalent plus 4 years experience
• MS or equivalent plus 2 years experience
• Well versed with IOCs, reverse engineering and threat campaign tracking
• Experience in malicious URL and phishing Email analysis
• Script enabled for scripting automations for handling huge volumes of threat artifacts like files, emails, URLs etc
• Experience designing, implementing & hardening systems
• Ability to think analytically & work collaboratively
• Email analysis skills to determine PHISHING, Clean and Spam emails
• Ability to identify PHISHING email campaigns
• Ability to identify new trends in PHISHING email campaigns
• Ability to contribute to blogs and posts related to latest trends and new methodologies in PHISHING email campaigns
• Ability to work with high volume of emails for accurate email classification
• Expertise in static and dynamic analysis of URLs and Files
• Expertise in URL analysis for identification of PHISHING and scam URLs
• Well versed with creating Yara rules for email grouping and clustering
• Must be script enabled to automate daily email classification tasks
• Contribute to automation engineering for inputs related to current threat space
• Keep up to date with emerging threats & security technologies

Our Fantastic Benefits

Note: An applicant assessment and background check may be part of your hiring procedure.

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