Managing Director, Data & Technology, Cybersecurity, Expert Services

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Practice Overview:

Ankura’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Practice is a full-service suite of solutions to respond to clients’ cybersecurity and privacy needs, regardless of industry or size. Our team includes former Big 4 consultants, intelligence community and law enforcement personnel, federal regulators, private security firms, and technology companies.  We are equipped and prepared to provide services across a range of areas that include: Proactive Preparedness, Incident Response, Investigations, Cyber Resilience, Data Privacy, Threat Intelligence, Managed Advisory Services and Managed Data Protection Services.
 

Role Overview:

As a Managing Director, you will be a key member of the Managed Detection and Response organization and with a goal of establishing an adjacent Hardware Security Assessment practice: In this role your initial focus will be responsible for designing, managing, and performing substantive use case discovery and engineering for platforms around threat discovery, threat analysis, and detection engineering for our MDR/IR/TI services.  You will be responsible for collecting, building, and delivering threat intelligence via tooling, 3rd party platforms/feeds, and internal production.  You will build the initial roadmap with key stakeholders and then execute that joint vision, as you bring that to fruition you will execute research and analysis of hardware platforms to begin building our future hardware assessment practice.  

Responsibilities:

• Build technical tooling and datasets that enable MDR, IR, and TI teams coordination and execution within their operations.
• You will manage and maintain partnerships, relationships, and trading agreements with industry partners and third parties to increase our visilbity into the threat landscape.
• You will actively lead and manage our detection engineering program and remote team with the creation of automation, tooling, and environments to enable detection engineering and detection as code methodologies.
• Actively lead, manage, and provide executive-level oversight on MDR/Detection/Analytics, and threat data feeds.
• Utilize professional and personal network to identify new opportunities for services (MDR/IR/TI/Other)
• Participate in externally facing events (conferences, webinars, etc.) representing Ankura and the Practice to increase market awareness
• Work collaboratively with others in the practice and elsewhere in the firm on various initiatives.
• Participate in business development by building relationships with current and future clients and working with business development professionals
• Identify sales opportunities and progress from a lead to sold engagement
• Development and presentation of project output to key stakeholders, including Executive and Board Level individuals
• Participate in the development of standard operating procedures and other practice initiatives
• Quality review of deliverables and externally facing content
• Collaborate with practice management to provide input into strategic initiatives
• Managing a diverse toolset to enable discovery, collections, surveillance, threat analysis, correlation, and reporting
• Performing analyses to assess complex fact patterns and attribute those patterns to activities, actors, or entities
• Applying analytical expertise, initiative, and innovative solutions to support complex issues to include incident response, investigations, pursuit, and mitigation services
• Maintaining detailed records both paper and digital that document and report investigative activities and results
• Preparing products for internal and external customers that detail project activity, scope, and findings

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a business or technology-related field
• 10+ years of experience working in the field of cybersecurity investigations
• Working knowledge of data analytic systems (snowflake, spark, kafka, parquet, iceberg)
• 10+ years programming experience (Python, Rust, Go)
• 10+ years detection engineering (NIDS/EDR)
• Experience fusing opensource collections with investigative results
• Project management and service delivery to clients’ experience
• Flexibility to travel as required

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