Farfield will assist the Federal staff within the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Agency (CISA) Hunt and Incident Response Team (HIRT), and National Cybersecurity and Assessment and Technical Services (NCATS) branches, with a broad set of support functions.The Hunt and Incident Response Team is DHS’s front line when responding to cyber incidents and proactively hunting for malicious cyber activity. HIRT leverages world-class expertise to lead response, containment, remediation, and asset recovery efforts with its constituents and partners. HIRT provides two primary functions to its customer. First, HIRT serves as DHS’s primary operations arm in the execution of the asset response mission delegated to DHS.

When any civilian Government agency or critical asset owner operator experiences a cyber-attack, HIRT can provide remote and onsite advanced technical assistance. Second, HIRT also can be called upon to proactively identify malicious activity, otherwise known as a “hunt”, specifically focusing on identifying threats from sophisticated threat actors that are often undetected, and in situations beyond the capacity and capability of traditional cyber security tools and techniques.

* Requires a Top Secret/SCI Clearance and U.S. Citizenship*

Responsibilities:

• Researching and compiling known resolution steps or workarounds to enable mitigation of potential Computer Network Defense incidents within the enterprise

• Applying knowledge of the tactics, techniques, and procedures of various criminal, insider, hacktivist, and nation state threat actors to identify and validate threats

• Applying cybersecurity concepts to the detection and defense of intrusions into small, and large-scale IT networks, and conduct cursory analysis of log data

• Conducting cursory analysis of log data

• Monitoring external data sources (e.g., Computer Network Defense vendor sites, Computer Emergency Response Teams [CERTs], SANS, Security Focus) to maintain currency of Computer Network Defense threat condition and determine which security issues may have an impact on the enterprise

• Identifying the cause of an incident and recognizing the key elements to ask external entities when learning the background and potential infection vector of an incident

• Receiving and analyzing network alerts from various sources within the enterprise and determine possible causes of such alerts

• Tracking and documenting Computer Network Defense (CND) incidents from initial detection through final resolution

• Working with other components within the organization to obtain and coordinate information pertaining to ongoing incidents.

• Providing support during assigned shifts (M-F Day shift 0830-1730)

Required Skills:

• U.S. Citizenship

• Must have an active TS/SCI clearance

• Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability

• 2+ years of directly relevant experience in cyber incident management or cybersecurity operations

• Knowledge of incident response and handling methodologies

• Knowledge of the NCCIC National Cyber Incident Scoring System to be able to prioritize triaging of incident

• Knowledge of general attack stages (e.g., foot printing and scanning, enumeration, gaining access, escalation of privileges, maintaining access, network exploitation, covering tracks, etc.)

• Skill in recognizing and categorizing types of vulnerabilities and associated attacks

• Knowledge of basic system administration and operating system hardening techniques

• Knowledge of Computer Network Defense policies, procedures, and regulations

• Knowledge of different operational threat environments (e.g., first generation [script kiddies], second generation [non nation-state sponsored], and third generation [nation-state sponsored])

• Knowledge of system and application security threats and vulnerabilities (e.g., buffer overflow, mobile code, cross-site scripting, PL/SQL and injections, race conditions, covert channel, replay, return- oriented attacks, and malicious code)

• Must be able to work collaboratively across physical locations

Desired Skills:

• Knowledge of basic system administration and operating system hardening techniques

• Knowledge of Computer Network Defense policies, procedures, and regulations

• Knowledge of different operational threat environments (e.g., first generation [script kiddies], second generation [non nation-state sponsored], and third generation [nation-state sponsored])

• Knowledge of system and application security threats and vulnerabilities (e.g., buffer overflow, mobile code, cross-site scripting, PL/SQL and injections, race conditions, covert channel, replay, return- oriented attacks, and malicious code)

Required Education:

BS Incident Management, Operations Management, Cybersecurity or related degree. HS Diploma with 4-6 years of incident management or cyber security experience.

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