Principal Cybersecurity Threat Researcher (Position located in Bangalore/ Kochi, India) (Hybrid)

About KnowBe4

KnowBe4, the provider of the world's largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, is used by tens of thousands of organizations around the globe. KnowBe4 enables organizations to manage the ongoing problem of social engineering by helping them train employees to make smarter security decisions, every day.

Fortune has ranked us as a best place to work for women, for millennials, and in technology for four years in a row! We have been certified as a "Great Place To Work" in 8 countries, plus we've earned numerous other prestigious awards, including Glassdoor's Best Places To Work.

Our team values radical transparency, extreme ownership, and continuous professional development in a welcoming workplace that encourages all employees to be themselves. Whether working remotely or in-person, we strive to make every day fun and engaging; from team lunches to trivia competitions to local outings, there is always something exciting happening at KnowBe4.

Please submit your resume in English.

The Principal Cybersecurity Threat Researcher works in the KnowBe4 Threat Research Lab, and is responsible for deploying and configuring various security products and solutions such as endpoint, email, web and network protection.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy, configure, maintain various cybersecurity products in a lab environment. This includes endpoint, web, email and network protection products
• Keep up to date with emerging threats & security technologies
• Recommend solutions for security product deployment and configurations
• Maintain license and product updates
• Experience designing, implementing & hardening systems
• Ability to think analytically & work collaboratively
• Provide coordination across functional boundaries
• Helps to translate KnowBe4's strategic goals into operational plans
• Act as team lead for large projects
• Make significant new contributions in technology, sometimes resulting in patents, trade secrets, and/or professional publications and presentations
• Provide coordination across functional boundaries
• Establish operational objectives and assignments
• Contribute as a technical expert to the development of new principles and concepts, providing solutions that are highly innovative and ingenious and cross diverse technical areas

Requirements:

• BS or equivalent plus 8 years experience
• MS or equivalent plus 4 years experience
• Keep up to date with emerging threats & security technologies
• Threat and APT phishing campaign analysis
• Well versed with IOCs, Reverse engineering and threat campaign tracking.
• Script enabled for scripting automations for handling huge volumes of threat artifacts like files, emails, URLs etc.
• Expertise in URL analysis, Phishing Email analysis and reverse engineering
• Recommend solutions for security product deployment and configurations
• Ability to think analytically & work collaboratively
• Provide coordination across functional boundaries
• Act as team lead for large projects
• Establish operational objectives and assignments
• Well versed with IOCs, Reverse engineering and threat campaign tracking.
• Experience in malicious URL and phishing Email analysis
• Script enabled for scripting automations for handling huge volumes of threat artifacts like files, emails, URLs etc

Our Fantastic Benefits

We offer company-wide bonuses based on monthly sales targets, employee referral bonuses, adoption assistance, tuition reimbursement, certification reimbursement, certification completion bonuses, and a relaxed dress code - all in a modern, high-tech, and fun work environment. For more details about our benefits in each office location, please visit www.knowbe4.com/careers/benefits.

Note: An applicant assessment and background check may be part of your hiring procedure.

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