Cyber Defense Labs is a full life-cycle information security service provider helping companies manage, detect and respond to today’s cyber risks. We provide trusted cyber risk management services to help companies reduce business risk before, during and after a cyber event.

Title: Director of Reactive Cyber Security Services (Incident Response Lead):

Reports to: VP of Professional Services

Job Summary:

Cyber Defense Labs is looking for a Director of Reactive Services to work on the 'front lines' of its Reactive Practice. We are looking for a passionate, experienced incident response professional to serve as a key player in our incident response process and work with our global incident response team lead to track and manage information security events and incidents.

As a Cyber Defense Labs Director, your role on the team will including overseeing reactive service offerings, helping to execute on team projects and assisting with operations for our Reactive services division. A Director is expected to have strong communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills to fulfill all their assigned roles in an optimal way.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

Role Responsibilities:

Oversee and assist in further developing our reactive and incident response service offerings and the infrastructure required to continually complete these offerings (proposals, client facing materials, and deliverable development systems)

Acts as the incident response manager to track and manages security events and incidents effectively in accordance with our incident response plan.

Assigns appropriates resources for each event and provides support throughout the response process.

Determines and identifies severity and impact and assigns appropriate priorities to all events and incidents.

As a member of the core incident response team, coordinates with Privacy, Compliance Investigations, Corporate Security, and others as warranted.

Serves as a centralized point of communication and provides appropriate briefings to executive staff and other stakeholders as needed.

Assists with post-incident activities requirements

Experience managing high impact, high visibility incident response events and incidents of various types, including APTs, vulnerability exploitation, web applications, and possible data exfiltration

Understanding and knowledge with collecting, analyzing, and escalating security events

Education and/or Experience:

College Degree in Cyber Security or Information Technology or equivalent work experience.

Cybersecurity Certifications; including but not limited to (GIAC suite, CCISO, CISSP, CRISC, Security+, CISA, CBCP, MBCP, etc.)

8+ years professional experience in a networking, security, or incident response role.

4+ years in digital forensics and incident response capacity conducting triage, investigation, remediation and reporting of cyber critical incidents.

Excellent time management skills

Effective Communication, including verbal, report writing & presentations skills.

Innovation and creativity

Analysis & interpretation of data into actionable information

Planning & execution

Please note Cyber Defense Labs does not accept resumes from any source other than directly from candidates. We will not consider resumes from vendors including and without limitation search firms, staffing agencies, fee-based referral services and recruiting agencies.