Cybersecurity Analyst - SOC and Threat Hunting

Analyst - Cyber Transformation

Description

About KPMG in India

KPMG entities in India are professional services firm(s). These Indian member firms are affiliated with KPMG International Limited. KPMG was established in India in August 1993. Our professionals leverage the global network of firms, and are conversant with local laws, regulations, markets and competition. KPMG has offices across India in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Chennai, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Noida, Pune, Vadodara and Vijayawada.

KPMG entities in India offer services to national and international clients in India across sectors. We strive to provide rapid, performance-based, industry-focused and technology-enabled services, which reflect a shared knowledge of global and local industries and our experience of the Indian business environment.

Responsibilities

• Actively monitoring, analysing & escalating SIEM alerts based on correlation rules, 

• Email protection alerts & malware analysis, 

• Provide inputs for proactive content fine tuning & use case enablement,

• Active threat hunting on network flow, user behaviour & threat intelligence, 

• Phishing email analysis for MFs, 

• Raising incidents in Pastebin inte

• Should be familiar with Domain Knowledge (Cyber Security), Threat Hunting, SIEM- Azure Sentinel, SIEM - (RSA / Splunk / LogRhythm), Python Scripting, Windows Active Directory, Operating systems and servers.

• Ability to Triage and assignment Incident Handling.

• Ability to Follow Playbooks instructions- Incident Response Playbooks

• Ability to Comprehend Logs (HTTP, SMTP, Network) (Under guidance)   

• Understand and imbibe current SOC process

• Perform quality assessment on SOC operations being performed as per existing process

• Record and deviations identified into tracking tool(s)/spreadsheets

• Perform follow-ups with respective error owners to mitigate process deviations

• Identify process deviations, Summarize and generate trends, patterns into process deviations / errors observed.

• Perform RCA into observed errors / trends and generate recommendations for process improvement

• Generate personnel specific recommendations for performance enhancement

• Contribute in overseeing quality assessment process for multiple SOC verticals

• In-line alignment with SOC operations for quick-detection / prevention of process deviations

• Support as QA touchpoint in critical cyber incidents to enhance quality of service

• Assessment of investigation report with assertions, evidences and recommended actions

Qualifications

• BE/B.Tech/Post-Grad/ Graduate or Postgraduate in any other discipline
• 0-2 years of relevant experience. 
• Candidates should be okay to work in rotational shifts.
• Good to have - Certifications - CSA (Certified SoC Analyst), CISM and CCSP, Certifications from Microsoft Azure Suite
• Candidates having SOC experience would be preferred
• Well versed in Microsoft productivity tools such as Word, PowerPoint and Excel
• An understanding of concepts of analytics and should be able to generate trends, drill downs, and various graphical representations
• Windows / Azure / AWS infrastructure knowledge will have added advantage
• Experience in Windows security tools like Defender for office, Defender for identity, Sentinel and other Microsoft security tools will have added advantage
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Equal employment opportunity information

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