There are many opportunities for workers to start and advance their careers within cybersecurity. This interactive career pathway shows key jobs within cybersecurity, common transition opportunities between them, and detailed information about the salaries, credentials, and skillsets associated with each role.
Title: Cyber Security
Location: Patuxent River, MD 20670
Duration; Full Time
Security Clearance: Active Secret
Certification: DoD 8570 IAT Level II (Security+CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC, SSCP) or IAM Level II Certification (CAP, CASP CE, GSLC, CISM, CISSP).
Job Description:
· Demonstrate subject matter expertise in DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP) and / or Risk Management Framework (RMF).
· Ensure information systems security and application security policies and procedures (Security Technical Implementation Guides [STIG], Information Assurance Vulnerability Management [IAVM], and Federal Information, Security Management Act (FISMA)) are followed.
· Develop/implement system security plans, control implementation, system requirements, test procedures, etc.
· Conduct information system (IS) security assessments and validations.
· Provide security recommendations/remedial actions to the client to ensure IS compliance is met and plan of actions and milestones are define accordingly.
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Contact Information:
Srikanth K
SYSTEL INC | Atlanta, GA
Phone: 678 250 9874
T: 888 8SYSTEL Ext:263
mailto: srikanthk@systelinc.com
If you are available & interested in below opportunity contact Srikanth with word version of your resume, best time & number to contact you. Please feel free to contact him to discuss more about this opportunity.
To know more about us, please visit www.systelinc.com
Position: 2
Security Operations Specialist
Location: Foster City, CA
Duration: 6+ Months
Se. Operation Specialist – The Security Operations Specialist is a key member of the Information Security and Privacy team and works to ensure our SIEM and Vulnerability Scanning solutions are maintained and updated as appropriate. The candidate will assist with identifying and driving necessary configuration changes and enhancements. The role will work collaboratively with the Security Engineering teams to ensure these solutions are up to date and optimized.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
Vulnerability Scanning
* Customize vulnerability scan reports as needed.
* Ensure that vulnerability scans are occurring at regular intervals.
* Ensure that vulnerability scans are updated regularly as new networks and sites are spun up.
* Regularly test solution upgrades in a test environment and follow change control to implement upgrades in production.
* Creating and tuning vulnerability scan groups and configurations.
SIEM
* Install and configure new data / log collectors.
* Create new SIEM content and rules to help identify important security events.
* Work closely with our Security Operation Center to gather their requirements and build content that meets those requirement
* Regularly test solution upgrades in a test environment and follow change control to implement upgrades in production.
REQUIRED SKILLS & JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
* Minimum 3-4 years of progressively responsible IT experience with at least 2 years of security/infrastructure protection experience.
* Familiar with general change management procedures and systems.
* Experience performing security operations tasks and working with Engineering teams to implement necessary changed
* Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to adapt information delivery based on the target audience.
* Ability to work in a fast paced, highly visible, changing environment.
* Proven ability at building working relationships with partners, peers, and senior Management.
* Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
* Ability to multitask and manage multiple topics and demands concurrently.
* Familiar with SIEM solutions like Splunk, ArcSight, LogRhythm, QRadar
* Familiar with vulnerability scanning solutions like Qualys, Foundstone, Nexpose
* Prior working experience in a pharmaceutical company is preferred.
* Highly organized, results-oriented and attentive to details.
* Self-motivated, proactive, independent and responsive – requires little supervisory attention.
* Excellent presentation, facilitation and diplomacy skills.
* Able to perform other duties as assigned.
* Ability to document technical changes (i.e. change control documents).
Contact Information:
Srikanth K
SYSTEL INC | Atlanta, GA
Phone: 678 250 9874
T: 888 8SYSTEL Ext:263
mailto: srikanthk@systelinc.com
If you are available & interested in below opportunity contact Srikanth with word version of your resume, best time & number to contact you. Please feel free to contact him to discuss more about this opportunity.
To know more about us, please visit www.systelinc.com
Position: 1
Vulnerability Management Consultant
Location: Foster City, CA
Duration: 6+ Months
Vulnerability Management role –
The Security Engineer is a key member of the Information Security and Privacy team and works closely with Infrastructure and Application services teams to ensure that software vulnerabilities are patched according to Gilead standards so that related risk can be managed appropriately. The candidate will assist with defining and enhancing patching processes and the supporting technologies such as patch management and vulnerability scanning and testing. The role will also help to collaboratively design and implement the business processes to allow system managers and system administrators to drive towards compliance with internal vulnerability remediation standards.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
* Responsible for implementing and tuning the technical solution used to identify and manage the versions of Java used in the environment.
* Customize as needed the vulnerability reports that will be used by system managers, system administrators and management.
* Liaise with system, database and application administrators to assist with implementation and rollout of a vulnerability management process.
* Research emerging technologies in support of IT security enhancement and development efforts.
* Assist in formalizing and updating security policies, procedures and technical standards; auditing/monitoring compliance with those standards; developing technical checks to verify compliance with technical controls.
* Creating and tuning vulnerability scan groups and configurations.
REQUIRED SKILLS & JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
* Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible IT experience with at least 3 years of security/infrastructure protection experience.
* Experience performing project focused information security work with cross-functional teams in an enterprise setting.
* Must have a good understanding of the following security domains: Audit and Monitoring, Risk Response & Recovery, Cryptography, Data Communications, Computer Operations Security, Telecommunications & Network Security, Security Architecture & Models.
* Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to adapt information delivery based on the target audience.
* Ability to work in a fast paced, highly visible, changing environment.
* Proven ability at building working relationships with partners, peers, and senior Management.
* Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
* Ability to multitask and manage multiple topics and demands concurrently.
* Working knowledge of IT processes (i.e., ITIL) including incident, problem, defect, change and release management.
* Familiar with patch management solutions like Satellite, SCCM, WSUS, Shavlik, Secunia, LANDesk.
* Familiar with vulnerability scanning solutions like Qualys, Foundstone, Nexpose
* Prior working experience in a pharmaceutical company is preferred.
* Highly organized, results-oriented and attentive to details.
* Self-motivated, proactive, independent and responsive – requires little supervisory attention.
* Excellent presentation, facilitation and diplomacy skills.
* Able to perform other duties as assigned.
* Ability to document technical solutions with excellent grammar.
A posting from Forbes by Yael Grauer titled “Why Did A Security Firm Mysteriously Ditch a ‘Privacy’ Product?” :
Two weeks after Ben Caudill announced that he’d built a $200 hardware proxy which allows Internet users to mask their location, the Rhino Labs owner shut down his project. His much anticipated August appearance at DEF CON, the annual hacker convention in Las Vegas where he planned on selling the device at cost, was cancelled as well.
“People are always going to speculate despite what I say and don’t say,” Caudill told me when I asked him about the theory that he cancelled the project and talk for media attention. Although he repeatedly declined to offer details on the circumstances surrounding the cancellation, he pointed out that not all press is good press, and that the company had invested time and resources into the project. “The actual result of cancelling was for more negative than going through with it would have been,” he added, pointing out that a lot of time and energy and material costs were put into the project, which he worked on with a small team for about a year.
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Throughout March and April, Career Services is offering a number of events for job seekers.
2012 Cybersecurity Career Expo and Virtual Job Fair
Register now to attend the 2012 Cybersecurity Career Expo, where employers will be looking to hire information technology and cybersecurity majors for jobs and internships.
Thursday, April 12, 2012, 3-7 p.m.
UMUC Inn and Conference Center Ballroom
3501 University Boulevard East
Adelphi, Maryland
In addition, a Virtual Job Fair will be held Monday-Friday, April 16-20, 2012. If you want to participate in the expo or job fair, register at www.umuc.edu/students/support/careerservices/student_cyberexpoinfo.cfm.
To have your résumé critiqued before the expo, click on “Proceed to the Talk to a Career Counselor Request Form” at www.umuc.edu/students/support/careerservices/expectations.cfm and attach your résumé.
Federal Job Workshops
Attend a workshop led by Corliss Jackson of Federal Job Results to find out how to maximize your chances of obtaining a federal job.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
6:30-8:30 p.m.
UMUC at Shady Grove
9636 Gudelsky Drive
Rockville, Maryland
(free)
Friday, March 30, 2012
8:30-4:00 p.m.
($129)
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
6:30-8:30 p.m.
UMUC at Dorsey Station
6865 Deerpath Road
Elkridge, Maryland
(free)
Friday, April 13, 2012
8:30-4:00 p.m.
($129)
Monday, April 23, 2012
6:30-8:30 p.m.
Academic Center at Largo
1616 McCormick Drive
Largo, MD
(free)
Friday, April 27, 2012
8:30-4:00 p.m.
($129)
The Department of Homeland Security is planning to increase its cyber-security workforce to 400 members by adding an additional 140 members by 2012. Phillip Reitinger, deputy undersecretary of the DHS’s National Protection and Programs Directorate, stated, “we plan to hire 140 additional cybersecurity experts by October 2012 bringing the agency’s total to 400.”
This is in part to President Obama’s recently proposed cybersecurity plan earlier this month. In the plan, the Obama administration released a cybersecurity legislative agenda that assigned the Department of Homeland Security as the lead agency in protecting federal agencies and the critical IT infrastructure.
This also follows a strategic agenda the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano made over year ago when she stated, “Cyber-security is one of our most urgent priorities” and announced that The Department of Homeland Security plans hire up to 1,000 cyber-security experts in the next three years to help protect U.S. computer networks.
Many IT security experts have expressed the United States is vulnerable to a massive cyber-attack due to our reliance and dependence on the Internet; and industries such as healthcare, transportation, telecommunications, financial and energy to name a few are currently open targets.
This announcement presents is a great opportunity for African Americans per a recent study by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce that was presented on a recent Black Enterprise web posting titled, “10 Highest-Paying College Degrees for African Americans”. The study investigates the economic value of 171 college majors and then goes even deeper to provide a breakdown of the highest and lowest-paying degrees by sex and race.
In the Black Enterprise article, 7 of the 10 highest-paying college degrees were IT and engineering related such as Computer Science, Computer Network & Telecommunications and Information Science to name a few.
You can view career opportunities with DHS here.
| From a MANDIANT Press Release:
Bejtlich, one of the most influential voices on incident response and computer forensics, joins MANDIANT from General Electric where he served as Director of Incident Response and leader of GE’s Computer Incident Response Team.
Alexandria, Va., March 17, 2011 – MANDIANT, the leader in incident response and computer forensics solutions and services for government, defense and enterprise organizations, today announced that Richard Bejtlich will join the MANDIANT executive management team as Chief Security Officer and Security Services Architect, effective April 1. Bejtlich joins MANDIANT after four years at General Electric, where he served as Director of Incident Response and led GE’s Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT). “MANDIANT is rapidly expanding its high-end threat detection and response managed service offering, and is focused on building global security operation centers to address the proliferation of targeted attacks,” said MANDIANT President and Chief Operating Officer Travis Reese. “We are excited to have Richard join our executive team to architect additional offerings and focus on protecting our own enterprise.”
Prior to GE, Bejtlich operated TaoSecurity LLC as an independent consultant, protected national security interests for ManTech Corporation’s Computer Forensics and Intrusion Analysis division, investigated intrusions as part of Foundstone’s incident response team, and monitored client networks for Ball Corporation. “A priority for MANDIANT in 2011 is to expand the team and the capabilities we use to defend our customers and our company,” Bejtlich said. “Organizations across the globe depend on MANDIANT to protect their information from an array of digital threats. I welcome the challenge posed by my new role, and the opportunity to join this distinguished group.” Bejtlich began his digital security career as a military intelligence officer at the Air Force Computer EmergencyResponse Team (AFCERT), Air Force Information Warfare Center (AFIWC), and Air Intelligence Agency (AIA). A graduate of Harvard University and the United States Air Force Academy, Bejtlich is the author of both The Tao of Network Security Monitoring and Extrusion Detection, and co-author of Real Digital Forensics. He also writes for his blog taosecurity.blogspot.com and teaches for Black Hat. About MANDIANT MANDIANT is the information security industry’s leading provider of incident response and computer forensics solutions and services. Headquartered in Alexandria, Va., with offices in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, MANDIANT provides products, professional services and education to Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, government agencies, domestic and foreign police departments, and leading U.S. law firms. MANDIANT comprises one of the industry’s largest incident response and forensics forces. The authors of nine books, and quoted frequently by leading media organizations, MANDIANT security consultants and engineers hold top government security clearances and certifications and advanced degrees from some of the most prestigious computer science universities. To learn more about MANDIANT visit www.mandiant.com, read M-Unition, the company blog: http://blog.mandiant.com, follow on Twitter @MANDIANT or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/mandiantcorp.
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Contacts:
Anne M. Mroczynski Senior Director of Marketing, MANDIANT 703.224.2926
Jim Engineer e-Rainmaker PR for MANDIANT 630.728.1387
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Mansoor Razaque
Senior Technology Recruiter
Kforce Professional Staffing
12010 Sunset Hills Rd Suite 200
Reston, VA 20190
703-464-6669 direct
703.481.3866 Fax
mrazaque@kforce.com
http://www.kforce.com
Our Client has an immediate need for a Network Security Specialist to support a true (24x7x365) NOC in Alexandria,VA for the USPTO (US Patent Trade Office) on the EUS contract. This is a perm requirement.
Immediate need
Multiple shift times open.
They really want someone with an active secret but will accept interim secret or clearable US citizen if they really fit the bill.
Description:
Under the direction of Evolver Subject Matter Specialist provides the following support:
Providing daily analysis reports to the customer Task Manager and have them available for display in the Enterprise Operations Center.
Providing technical assistance in the area of security management of the customers AIS*s. Identify events and nodes that should be monitored and modify security tools as necessary to successfully monitor and analyze the events and nodes.
Collect and analyze data obtained by the customers* Security tools. Tools include, IDS/IPS, Firewall, SIM, scanning software etc.
Centralized Audit Logging Solution Administration and Maintenance Support, supporting customers efforts to maintain the existing centralized audit logging solution (Log Logic) capability that logs significant events for system operating systems (OSs) and databases.
Internet Content Management System Maintenance and Administrative Support work with customer to effectively configure and maintain customers* Web cache (Bluecoat) and content filtering capability to manage Internet content.
Previous large enterprise wide security monitoring and management experience is a must. Candidate must be a self-starter able to provide expert security monitoring and management with little or no direct supervision. Experience with QRadar is a plus.
Bachelor*s degree in Network Security preferred but is not a must for a person with sufficient network security experience. Current Cisco CCSP Certification is desired.
Shall follow established Operating Procedures and update the procedures when necessary with the prior approval of customer.
A secret clearance is required for this position. This requirement may be waived to start, but secret clearance must be obtained to continue in the position.
Mansoor Razaque
Senior Technology Recruiter
Kforce Professional Staffing
12010 Sunset Hills Rd Suite 200
Reston, VA 20190
703-464-6669 direct
703.481.3866 Fax
mrazaque@kforce.com
http://www.kforce.com
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