Cybersecurity Analyst - Delan Associates

Title: Cybersecurity Analyst

W-2 Only (no 1099)

Must be a U.S. Citizen

Company’s Location: Lemont, IL

Job Description

Background: Company promotes the safe and secure use of technology and providing a variety of cybersecurity services including consultation, protection technologies, detection technologies, cybersecurity education and awareness, cybersecurity incident management, vulnerability management, compliance, and cybersecurity risk management. Contract Position: Full Time, 40 hour work week

Period of Performance: 1 Year

Job Description

Scope: Cybersecurity Analyst will play an important role to continuously monitor, triage alerts and tickets, investigate suspicious activity or poor configurations, and orchestrate responses to protect the laboratory's systems and data. Typical tasks may include: Resetting user passwords for cause (e.g., when they have been identified as being suspected compromised or 'known compromised')

• Working with service owners to reset service account passwords for various reasons
• Ensuring authorizers are designated for in-scope accounts
• Analyzing usage patterns for accounts (e.g., service, administrative) to identify inactive accounts or inappropriate account use
• Reviewing approval requests for various new access or accounts
• Triaging unusual access requests (e.g., access from 3 rd party VPN providers, impossible travel) or phishing reports
• Evaluate endpoint and detection response (EDR) installation and coverage.
• Identify systems without EDR and provide to IT teams for remediation.
• Monitoring external attack surface for unapproved systems, undocumented systems, and newly disclosed vulnerabilities
• Reviewing systems with existing public access to ensure requirements for these systems are followed (e.g., event logging, multifactor authentication)
• Attend online/Teams meetings with team and others as appropriate
• Work with team to provide status on current task, suggest improvements, discuss implementation, etc.

You will be expected to use a variety of tools to perform the above tasks, including ServiceNow, CrowdStrike, and Splunk Objectives: The ideal candidate will support the projects and tasks associated with he Cybersecurity Program. Technical Direction of Work: Report to the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer within the Business & Information Services division; including daily guidance and collaboration with others in the Cyber Security Program Office (CSPO). REMOTE: Typically, the work is performed remotely. For the candidate within driving distance of the Lab, there may be rare times to be onsite for in-person meetings, assessments, or presentations. Most of the Business Informati