Principal Threat Research Analyst

Bangalore, KA, IN

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OpenText is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of our corporate culture. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation.

The Threat Hunt Team leverages our people, processes and technology to deliver world class threat identification and protection for our customers’ and their data. Companies are recognizing the need to leverage behavioral threat detection for threats more accurately and help protect against insider threat. With this in mind, we work tirelessly to drive improvements across our security services and accelerate our customers’ digital journey in a safe and trusted environment.

 

Your Impact: 

A Threat Hunting role at OpenText is more than just a job; it's an opportunity to impact lives. As a key contributor, you'll be instrumental in utilizing behavioural analytics and advanced threat-hunting technologies to detect and analyze emerging threats, define attack paths, and track threat actors and their tactics, enabling the development of robust behavioural models and proactive defense measures. You will help to extract data and remove the noise to pinpoint internal and external threats. Our client base is global and in nearly every industry.

 

What the role offers:

As a Principal Threat Hunter, you will:

  • Recognize patterns and anomalies in large datasets.
  • Integrate and interpret threat intelligence feeds for proactive hunting activities.
  • Proactively search for and detect threats using an understanding of common attack techniques.
  • Leverage advanced analytics for User Behavior Analysis to detect anomalies indicating potential security threats.
  • Identify and respond to suspicious activities and malicious incidents, providing detailed reports and explanations to stakeholders.
  • Continuously learn about new threats, tools, and techniques, while applying strong analytical thinking, problem-solving abilities, and effective communication skills.
  • Extensive knowledge of UNIX and LINUX operating systems, storage environments, network protocols and file systems.
  • Familiarity with multiple information technologies that include operating systems, server virtualization, cloud-based infrastructure with expertise in several of the technologies, including RedHat Linux.
  • Possess 12-15 years of previous professional experience and able to work in shifts and weekends.

 

What you need to Succeed: 

  • Deep understanding of malware methods, attack tactics, and TTPs.
  • Strong familiarity with attacker tradecraft and client relationships.
  • Proficiency in utilizing EDR/SOAR/Anomaly detection solutions.
  • Experience in incident response, including advanced adversary detection and log analysis.

 

OpenText's efforts to build an inclusive work environment go beyond simply complying with applicable laws. Our Employment Equity and Diversity Policy provides direction on maintaining a working environment that is inclusive of everyone, regardless of culture, national origin, race, color, gender, gender identification, sexual orientation, family status, age, veteran status, disability, religion, or other basis protected by applicable laws.

If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please contact us at hr@opentext.com. Our proactive approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and personal growth, enriching OpenText's vibrant workplace.

 

* Salary range is an estimate based on our InfoSec / Cybersecurity Salary Index 💰

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Tags: Analytics Cloud EDR Incident response Linux Log analysis Malware SOAR Threat detection Threat intelligence Threat Research TTPs UNIX

Perks/benefits: Career development

Region: Asia/Pacific
Country: India

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