Security Analyst, Incident Response

Company Description

Abb Vie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people’s lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

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This position is part of Abb Vie’s Information Security & Risk Management (ISRM) team. We are here to put our partners in a position to succeed. We do it by providing the knowledge, tools, and support they need to effectively use data and technology while also effectively managing risk.

Abb Vie Information Security is looking for a highly motivated, talented defender to join the Cyber Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT). The Cyber Security Operations Center (CSOC) manages the initial investigation and response to security events, alerts, and threats, and works directly to augment the incident responders. This is a new capability within the Cyber Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT), working within the larger Cyber Security Operations (CSO) function.

Join us as a Security Analyst, Incident Response to form the first line of defense against cyber-attacks and help our business to continue to have remarkable impacts on people’s lives.

This is a highly technical role responsible for the initial triage of cyber security alerts, responding to confirmed cyber security incidents, escalation of cyber security incidents, as needed, and driving detection improvements whenever possible.

This role will assist in continuing to build your foundation of skills and knowledge in incident response and digital forensics and provides a clear career path to more senior incident response and digital forensics specializations.

In this role, you’ll be responsible for:

• Responding to cyber security alerts within defined SLAs
• Contributing to key initiatives to enhance the Cyber Security Operations team’s maturity and operational capabilities
• Adhering to cyber security processes, procedures and other documentation while performing incident response duties
• Assisting with development of documentation regarding how to perform specific incident response tasks
• Analyzing security system logs, security tools, and available data sources to identify attacks against the enterprise and report on any irregularities, issues related to improper access patterns, trending, and event correlations and make suggestions for detection development and system tuning
• Assisting in identifying monitoring/detection gaps and helping to drive them toward resolution
• Escalating cyber security incidents to incident response analysts when appropriate
• Identifying and actioning incident trends observed during triage and response activities
• Assisting with the development, maintenance of, and training on technical documentation and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
• Assisting with cyber security awareness and education initiatives, as needed
• Operating in a global on‑call rotation and being available to respond outside of normal business hours, if necessary

Experiences that make you a strong candidate for this role:

Required:

• Basic understanding of system logging and auditing concepts
• Basic understanding of security controls (i.e. anti‑virus, EDR, IPS/IDS) and their capabilities
• Ability to author original technical documentation
• Working knowledge of diverse operating systems, networking protocols, systems administration, and security technologies
• Familiarity with cyber security terminology and concepts, and basic understanding of the cyber threat landscape and attack vectors
• Capability to learn new concepts and processes quickly, and adapt to a constantly changing environment
• Demonstrated critical thinking, problem solving, and analytical skills with the ability to de–construct complex concepts
• Ability to successfully interact with non–technical personnel
• Ability to analyze and understand technical information
• Ability to work independently with minimal direction for…