Cyber Threat Hunter

Job description

Overview Edgewater Federal Solutions is currently seeking a Threat Hunter to provide threat hunting expertise and support to maximize cyber fusion throughout the Client’s SOC, ensuring the Client’s infrastructure and operations remain safe and secure from the full spectrum of cyber threats. The Threat Hunter will support Client SOC teams by providing industry-leading threat hunt support to ongoing and significant incidents as well as by engaging in proactive, hypothesis-driven hunts for threats assumed to already be in the Client environment who may have evaded existing detections. Additionally, the Threat Hunter must be skilled in related disciplines including incident response, forensics, and malware analysis, and be able to integrate these skills to assist in the closure of cybersecurity incidents. ** Due to the nature of the contract and work, US Citizenship is required ** Responsibilities: - Respond to crisis or urgent situations to mitigate immediate and potential threats. - Investigate and analyze all relevant response activities, identifying and assessing the capabilities and activities of the full spectrum of cyber threats. - Review and analyze risk-based Security Informat...