Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
CurrentDevelops cyber indicators to maintain awareness of the status of the highly dynamicoperating environment. Collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates cyber threat/warningassessments. Conducts collection, processing, and/or geolocation of systems to exploit, locate, and/or track targets of interest. Conducts advanced analysis of collection and open- source data to ensure target continuity; to profile targets and their activities; and develop techniques to gain more target information. Determines how targets communicate, move, operate and live based on knowledge of target technologies, digital networks, and the applications on them. Uses data collected from a variety of cyber defense tools (e.g., IDS alerts, firewalls, network traffic logs) to analyze events that occur within their environments for the purposes of mitigating threats. Performs web application vulnerability assessments and reporting using web application assessment software, which also provides web application security intelligence to the Web Application Firewall solution. Develops cyber indicators from analysis and assessment of logs, alert, and open-source data, disseminates this information to stakeholders. Performs real-time web application protection against SQL injection attacks, malicious bots, zero-day attacks, data loss and defacement protection and any other Web Application attacks that exist. Performs end user device threat containment and access control enforcing VA security policies and restrictions in the Information Technology Center network using network security device management technology. Manages application, scanner, and management server patching, software installation, vulnerability management, and distribution of hardware to VA data centers. Participates in annual GAO and FISMA audits. Performs duties as Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity team member, participating in exercises, reviewing BCP plans and documentation, submitting After Action Reports to management.