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
Company Overview
We are a leading global education company that partners with millions of educators, learners and professionals around the world. It was founded in 1888, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.mheducation.com.