Information Security Specialist Ii
• Review the ingestion of cyber news feeds, signature updates, incident reports, threat briefs, and vulnerability alerts from external sources and determine its applicability to the environment.• Perform correlation activities and trend analysis to discover attack patterns and assess the risks and potential exposure of assets.• Ensure continued security of the network and proactive enhancement of cybersecurity to meet evolving and emerging threats, to include compliance with DoD Risk Management Framework (RMF) and continuous monitoring requirements.• Be responsible for ensuring monitoring enterprise systems, defending against security breaches, and identifying, investigating, and mitigating cybersecurity threats including managing the operation of the SOC and the performance of ARNG RCC-NG SOC activities 24/7/365 to protect DOD information systems and infrastructure.• Compile and interpret the information received about emerging threats at different classification levels through data feeds from Internet security firms, Government organizations, private industry, and foreign governments into actionable monitoring either by developing custom content or by means suggested by the contractor.• Build, implement, and refine event correlation rules, logic, content, and analysis techniques that will enable SOC personnel to correlate events and security incidents with specific sources, such as individuals, threat actors, IT systems, devices, and IP addresses.• Responsible for performing correlation activities and trend analysis to discover attack patterns and assess the risks and potential exposure of assets and develop and enhance correlation rules, logic, and analysis techniques for associating data.• Determine risks to the enterprise and develop mitigations and/or countermeasures in coordination with the RCC-NG.adversary capabilities, intentions, and Techniques, Tactics, and Procedures (TTPs).