Cybersecurity Analyst

The Nielsen Legal Team supports the company globally, protecting Nielsen’s business, products, intellectual property and reputation. The team places a focus on developing excellence and agility as we minimize risk and move the business forward. The team comprises attorneys, paralegals and legal assistants. Whether we’re solving a problem or averting a crisis, we are focused on creating the best environment possible to advance Nielsen’s reputation, preserve business opportunities, and help business to flourish. 
We are currently looking for an experienced Cybersecurity Analyst interested in joining our Cyber Security Incident Response team – triaging, investigating, and responding to internal cyber threats and incidents while helping to improve our overall security capabilities. This role needs to be able to communicate and collaborate professionally  with other members of the organization. 

Technologies you may work with include

• Security Incident and Event Management (Splunk ES or similar)
• Network Intrusion Detection Systems
• Endpoint detection and response
• Digital Forensics and Incident Response tools
• Most operating systems (Windows, Linux, MacOS)
• Public cloud/PaaS (e.g. AWS, GCP)
• Virtualization and Containers (VMware, Docker, Kubernetes, or similar)

Your day-to-day

• Host/network based forensic investigations
• Managing incoming queues of detection alerts, threat reports and security incidents
• Triaging and prioritizing competing incidents to maintain Service Level Agreements (SLA)
• Managing investigations including organizing unstructured work and engaging resources across the company
• Managing urgency and visibility to ensure timely response by all involved parties
• Owning an incident for it’s full lifecycle, including after action reviews and follow up actions
• Communication and coordination with internal teams
• Rotating on-call coverage
• Maintain current knowledge of tools and best-practices in advanced persistent threats; tools, techniques, and procedures of attackers; and forensics and incident response

What You Bring To The Team

• Experience with Cybersecurity Incident Response, Digital Forensics, Timeline Analysis or related
• Experience or knowledge of current information security solutions and technologies, including cloud, network and host based products
• Effective and efficient investigative skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including a focus on providing continuous, proactive communications to management, peers, and stakeholders while working on incidents
• Ability and willingness to continually learn and hone cybersecurity skills
• Cybersecurity certifications preferred (e.g. CISSP, Sec+, SANS/GIAC)
• Bachelor’s degree or 1-2 years relevant cybersecurity experience preferred

Nielsen is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class.
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