Insider Threat/UAM (User Activity Monitoring) Analyst

This position will serve as a member of DISA J-6 User Activity Monitoring (UAM) Team. UAM analysts triage, analyze, and assess alerts and document and report findings through a case management system. Information is further shared with impacted parties for follow-on analysis. The UAM team continually deploys, maintains, and tunes countermeasures in response to new or changing insider threat tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). The UAM team also provides information to the UAM Lead to fulfill J-6 trending and reporting requirements.

u2022 Must have active Top Secret/SCI.\n \u2022 Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of professional experience; additional related years of experience is accepted in lieu of a degree\n \u2022 At least 1 year of incident response experience\n \u2022 At least 1 year of UAM or insider threat detection experience\n \u2022 Demonstrated experience with UAM capabilities and common insider threat TTPs.\n \u2022 Demonstrated knowledge of network traffic and communications, including known ports and services.\n \u2022 Demonstrated experience in coordinating with external organizations, especially Law Enforcement and Counter Intelligence\n \u2022 Knowledge of incident handling procedures.\n \n, u2022 Understanding of core current cybersecurity technologies as well as emerging capabilities.\n \u2022 Demonstrated understanding of the life cycle of cybersecurity threats (internal and external), attacks, attack vectors and methods of exploitation with an understanding of intrusion set tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs).\n \u2022 Knowledge of computer security principles and DoD security protocols\n \u2022 Motivated self-starter with strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to create complex technical reports on analytic findings.\n \u2022 Demonstrated experience with the Windows operating system and other operating systems (e.g., Linux or Unix).\n \u2022 Familiarity or experience in Intelligence Driven Defense, Cyber Kill Chain methodology, and/or MITRE ATT&CK framework.\n \u2022 Certifications that satisfy DoD-8570 IAT Level II.\n

u2022 Provide information to the UAM lead for customer trending and reporting\n \u2022 Create and implement countermeasures to specific weaknesses against known adversarial TTPs\n \u2022 Support meetings where UAM representation is needed\n \u2022 Provide recommendations to contractor and government leadership on ways to improve the UAM program\n \n

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