Senior Security Researcher - Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps and Identity

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. 

Cloud Apps and Identity Research team (CAIR) is looking for a Security Researcher with expertise about Identity based attacks and threats. The ideal candidate can demonstrate strong knowledge of common authentication protocols and technologies both on-prem and on cloud (e.g. Kerberos, SAML, Oauth, LDAP) and is familiar with Identity Providers' logs and internals (e.g. Entra ID, Okta). The job includes performing technical research to dissect identity attacks as observed from security research, incidents, threat landscape, customers reports and guide product and engineering teams to deliver optics, high-confidence detections and durable protection for customers. 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and understand the internals of authentication/network protocols and be able to independently reproduce identity-based attacks for investigation, study and research purposes.
• Become a subject matter expert of investigation, collection, analysis and forensic of identity logs, including deep understanding of current trends and landscape of identity-based attacks and exploits
• Collaborate with multiple product and engineering teams to design the next iteration of sensors, implement detection ideas and validate their effectiveness using a data-driven approach.
• Work together with the different engineering teams to deliver the prototype and code to support the research findings.
• Provide cybersecurity expertise as needed during security escalations and incidents to help protect Microsoft and our customers. 

Qualifications

• You have at least 4+ years of demonstrated security research experience.
• Engineering skills with proficiency in developing C# / Python solutions and prototypes.
• Experience with leading a feature end to end (design, coding, testing, maintenance).
• Excellent cross-group and interpersonal skills.
• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or relevant practical experience (e.g. service in elite technology unit in IDF) 

 
Other Requirements 

• Offensive security research experience.
• Management experience.
• Industry recognized author of security research papers, blogs, or books.

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