Cyber Action Officer

Job Type: Full- Time

Workplace Type: Onsite

Clearance: TS/SCI with ability to obtain a DHS suitability

Must be a U.S. Citizen

Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401k matching, generous PTO, paid holidays, professional training opportunities, and even pet insurance to ensure your furry friends are cared for too.

Job Summary

Castalia Systems is seeking a Cyber Action Officer in Arlington, VA to support a U.S. Government customer by providing support for onsite incident response to civilian government agencies and critical asset owners who experience cyber-attacks, providing immediate investigation and resolution. The Cyber Action Officer will perform investigations to characterize the severity of breaches, develop mitigation plans, and assist with the restoration of services. Castalia is seeking a Cyber Action Officer to support this critical customer mission.

Roles and Responsibilities

A qualified candidate will perform the following duties and responsibilities, but are not limited to:

• Support the management of cyber incidents through the incident response lifecycle.
• Create and maintain routine reporting of cyber incidents in official systems of record, to include case management systems and ticketing.
• Coordinate with internal and external customers, partners, and stakeholders.
• Ingest, validate, and evaluate information to determine optimal courses of action, to include providing response support to requesting entities.
• Update and track cases and tickets with accuracy, timeliness, reliability, and consistency.
• Draft summaries of ongoing operations and be able to provide oral presentations for various levels of leadership.
• Maintain knowledge objects in system of record consistently and professionally.
• Support teams that apply risk management and protocols to evaluate risks and prioritize responses based on national security strategies (NCISS).
• Support teams conducting threat and vulnerability management to recognize and categorize types of vulnerabilities, threat actors, and different operational threat environments, and associated attacks (MITRE ATT&CK framework).
• Support teams performing network security monitoring and/or security operations analysis, system administration, operating system hardening, cyber hygiene techniques, and cybersecurity defense policies, procedures, and regulations.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors in Incident Management, Operations Management, Cybersecurity or related degree. Or High School Diploma with 7-9 years of incident management or cyber security experience in lieu of degree.
• 5+ years of directly relevant experience in cyber incident management or cybersecurity operations.
• Knowledge of incident response and handling methodologies.
• Must have close familiarity with NIST 800-62 (latest revision), and FISMA standards as they pertain to reporting incidents.
• Knowledge of the NCCIC National Cyber Incident Scoring System to be able to prioritize triaging of incident.
• Knowledge of general attack stages (e.g., foot printing and scanning, enumeration, gaining access, escalation of privileges, maintaining access, network exploitation, covering tracks, etc.).
• Skill in recognizing and categorizing types of vulnerabilities and associated attacks.
• Knowledge of different operational threat environments (e.g., first generation [script kiddies], second generation [non nation-state sponsored], and third generation [nation-state sponsored]).
• Knowledge of system and application security threats and vulnerabilities (e.g., buffer overflow, mobile code, cross-site scripting, PL/SQL and injections, race conditions, covert channel, replay, return- oriented attacks, and malicious code).
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with different operational threat environments (e.g., first generation [script kiddies], second generation [non nation-state sponsored], and third generation [nation-state sponsored]).
• Familiarity with system and application security threats and vulnerabilities (e.g., buffer overflow, mobile code, cross-site scripting, PL/SQL and injections, race conditions, covert channel, replay, return- oriented attacks, and malicious code).
• Familiarity with of basic operating system hardening techniques, Computer Network Defense policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Certifications:
  • Security+
  • GCIH

Physical Requirements/Work Environment

• Normal office environment.

Travel

• Not required.

Company Description

Castalia Systems is a proven business partner providing mission critical solutions to the Federal Government. We provide cutting edge solutions from Securing and Managing Data to Systems Engineering and Development. Castalia Systems is a pioneer in Artificial Intelligence Design and Application.

With our vast knowledge of our customers’ needs and relevant technology, our team is able to bring successful solutions to every mission. We are one-upping our competitors by providing premium IT solutions and platforms with cutting-edge technology so it’s so evident when you compare us with anyone.

Disclaimer

Castalia Systems is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and strives to comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, HIV-positive status, as well as any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws. All such discrimination is unlawful, and all persons involved in the operations of the company are prohibited from engaging in this type of conduct.