Information Security Analyst – Cyber Threat for Visa in Foster City, CA #infosec #jobs

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012 at 4:44 pm 
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Location

 - United States-CA-Foster City

Organization

 - Technology

Job

 - Information Security

Description
Cyber Threat Analytics Analyst (USA)
 
Visa Inc. is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governments in more than 200 countries and territories, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks. 
 
Visa does not issue cards, extend credit or set rates and fees for consumers. Visa’s innovations enable its bank customers to offer consumers choices: Pay now with debit, ahead of time with prepaid or later with credit products. From the world’s major cities to remote areas without banks, people are increasingly relying on digital currency along with mobile technology to use their money anytime, make purchases online, transfer funds and access basic financial services. All of which makes their lives easier and helps grow economies.
  
Behind the Visa brand are more than 5,000 talented employees who continuously raise the bar with innovative solutions and products that deliver the convenience and security of digital currency to more people all over the world.
 
Overview:
 
Join a growing, fast-paced and high-performance Cyber Security team. Information security is an integral part of Visa’s corporate culture.  It is essential to maintaining our position as an industry leader in electronic payments, and it is the responsibility of each and every employee to safeguard information, protect it from unauthorized access, and ensure regulatory compliance.  Information security has a significant effect on privacy, consumer confidence, external reputation, and/or the bottom line, and it is a priority on everyone’s agenda.
 
The ideal candidate for this Senior Cyber Threat Analytics Analyst position will be an experienced professional who will be responsible for producing authoritative intelligence assessments that define cyber threats to networked global information networks including mobile platforms.
 
Responsibilities:
 
The candidate will:
·         The successful candidate should have strong technical security skills with hands-on experience. Candidate should have an understanding of increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks, hacking techniques and associated defensive techniques
·         Conduct all-source intelligence research by evaluating technical and intelligence data with specific emphasis on network/system operations and information warfare tactics, techniques, and procedures directed against international payment networks.
·         Informed and can provide subject matter expertise regarding recent hacks / exploits – especially against web applications, databases and common desktop tools
·         Maintain, develop, and continually evaluate cyber intelligence sources (technical & non-technical) to increase effectiveness and timeliness of reporting threat information.  
·         Assist the various Information Security teams such as the Investigations and Forensics team with quality research and assistance in solving complex cases. 
·         Interact and assist other investigative teams within Visa (e.g. risk) on time sensitive, critical investigations
·         Active participation in Incident Response mock scenarios for training on an annual basis
Qualifications
Qualifications:
  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science (or related field) or equivalent work experience
  • 3 to 5 years of experience in Information Security
  • Possess strong analytical reasoning skills with the ability recognize and evaluate facts, objectively analyze situations, synthesize and organize data/information from multiple sources
·         Moderate to strong scripting/programming skills
  • Familiarity with malware reverse engineering and ethical hacking beneficial
  • Working knowledge and administrative experience on Windows and UNIX platforms
  • Able to draft, interpret and communicate policies, procedures and technical requirements
  • Must be both a self-starter and team player with the ability to work independently with limited supervision
  • Excellent writing and verbal communication skills,  interpersonal and presentation skills and the proven ability to influence and communicate effectively.
  • Must be extremely flexible and able to manage multiple tasks and priorities on very tight deadlines.
  • Security-related certifications a plus

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Cyber Security Consulting Engineer Job at SAIC in San Diego, California

Monday, February 20th, 2012 at 4:01 pm 
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Cyber Security Consulting Engineer (Job Number:301777)

Description:

The CISBU is currently seeking a Cyber Security Consulting Engineer

SAIC’s Security Operations Practice (SOP) is seeking a talented Consulting Engineer, requiring 50-75% travel, to operate within its Product Team. Primary work location is flexible within the United States. SAIC’s Security Operations Practice has been operating in commercial and federal markets for over ten years. The Consulting Engineer will travel to customer locations around the world to install, configure, troubleshoot, and customize SOP solutions. This position requires strong knowledge in network security operations and familiarity with a variety of endpoint security products. Candidates should be very experienced in network, security systems design, and deployment and troubleshooting. Primary Duties:

- Primary support for customer consulting engagements

- Test and implement new services or technologies for MSS or consulting practice.

- Provide technical solutions, documentation and support for proposals

Qualifications:
TYPICAL EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and 6+ years related experience.

· 2-3 year system administration experience with UNIX, Linux and Windows environments, especially installation, configuration and troubleshooting.

· Intermediate level knowledge of installing, deploying, documenting, and troubleshooting network perimeter security technologies such as firewalls, proxy servers, intrusion prevention/detection (IDS/IPS), antivirus, anti-Malware, anti-Spam and unified threat management (UTM).

· Strong networking background combined with strong security and general troubleshooting skills, methods and approach.

· Ability to program in an administrative language (Tk, Perl, VBScript, a shell).

* Ability to understand and automate complex processes.

· Interface with customer, SAIC, and partners.

· Translate customer requirements into use cases and designs.

· Provide best-practices based guidance to achieve customer goals.

· Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial to this position as candidate will be interacting with the customer on a regular basis.

· Provide regular status summaries and reports to team lead and/or management as required.

* Ability to work with developers and engineers to troubleshoot their development apps/code and engineering applications

· Ability to present technical ideas, network diagrams, and flowcharts utilizing visualization tools such as Visio and PowerPoint.

· Ability to write technically in support of proposals and practice documentation.

SAIC Overview:

SAIC is a FORTUNE 500® scientific, engineering, and technology applications company that uses its deep domain knowledge to solve problems of vital importance to the nation and the world, in national security, energy and the environment, critical infrastructure, and health. The company’s approximately 41,000 employees serve customers in the U.S. Department of Defense, the intelligence community, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, other U.S. Government civil agencies and selected commercial markets. Headquartered in McLean, Va., SAIC had annual revenues of $11.1 billion for its fiscal year ended January 31, 2011. For more information, visit www.saic.com. SAIC: From Science to Solutions®

Job Posting: Feb 17, 2012, 3:15:53 PM
Primary Location: United States-CA-SAN DIEGO

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Potential for Teleworking: No
Travel: None
Shift: Day Job
Schedule: Full-time
Nearest Major Market: San Diego
Job Segments: Consultant, Consulting, Contract, Cyber Security, Engineer, Engineering, Government, Homeland Security, Linux, Military Intelligence, Network Security, Security, Service, Technology, Unix

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Cyber Security Requirements IT Analyst at HP in Roseville, California

Monday, February 20th, 2012 at 3:57 pm 
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Job Description
Cyber Security Requirements IT Analyst-903515
Description
This position will require a knowledgeable, experienced security professional who is willing to use their knowledge and skill to assist HP in developing and managing an emerging Cyber Security program.
The job will require a seasoned security professional who can work independently and with a team to design, deliver sound security solutions to a variety of organizations to utilize.
The successful candidate will require experience and technical knowledge in many security domains such as, but not limited to: Networking, End Point, App Sec, PKI & Encryption.
Job duties also include, but are not limited to:
  • Document specific business requirement related to cyber security operations and implementation
  • Transform overall strategic plans into specific implementation details for partner organizations
  • Drive partner teams to produce project deliverables that meet specified requirements
  • Work closely with Cyber Security Architects and Strategists on strategic plans and overall architecture
  • Ensure engagement of Cyber Security Architects and Strategists in key aspects of projects
  • Improve methodology for requirements gathering, documentation, and communication in Cyber Security team
 This candidate may be asked to lead security projects or initiatives and handle ad hoc requests as required.
Qualifications
Education and Experience Required:
Typically a technical Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and a minimum of 10 years of related experience or a Master’s degree and a minimum of 8 years of experience.
Knowledge and Skills Required:
  • Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills
  • Experience developing and documenting detailed technical and business requirements
  • Experience in large scale information technology implementations and operations
  • Strong English language written and spoken communication skills (technical and business correspondence writing samples will be required)
  • Significant experience in IT operations with demonstrated IT Security skills
Ideal candidates will have:
  • Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) certification
  • IT Operations or ITIL experience
  • Application development and/or application administration experience
  • Network and/or system administration experience
  • Database analysis and/or administration experience
Critical Competencies to Drive Business:
Core Technical Leadership (IT)
Demonstrates leadership in the development of technical innovations and in ensuring optimum collaboration and knowledge sharing of technical insights
Technical Solution Design (IT)
Creates a solution vision and design framework for guiding and synthesizing the technical contributions of specialists
Technical Project Management (IT)
Helps develop and implements project strategy and direction
Information Management Acumen (IT)
Demonstrates fundamental understanding of information management systems and infrastructure
Organizational Interface Management
Actively bridges technical and business cultures and perspectives to promote cross-organizational collaboration
Technical Excellence Development
Recognizes the interrelationship of individual and organizational excellence, and their contribution to technical leadership
Technical Performance Optimization
Exercises personal authority and organizational leadership to establish and maintain employee excellence
Change Management
Develops methods for supporting innovation and change across the organization

Job

- Information Technology

Primary Location

- United States-California – Roseville

Schedule

- Full-time

Job Type

- Experienced

Shift

- Day Job

Travel

- No

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Cyber Analyst / Cyber Security at CGI Federal (Stanley Associates) in San Diego, California

Friday, February 10th, 2012 at 5:55 pm 
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Minimum Security Clearance

Top Secret Clearance

 Location

San Diego, California  92101

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dot Cyber Analyst / Cyber Security at CGI Federal (Stanley Associates) in San Diego, CaliforniaTravel: 25% – defined as 25% of your time traveling
Cyber Analyst

Stanley Associates (wholly owned subsidiary of CGI Federal) is looking for Cyber Analysts to work in our San Diego, CA location.

Duties include:

• Vulnerability discovery
• Software development, reverse engineering and network modeling and simulation
• Debugging code and understanding code at the assembly level.
• Programming using languages such as C, C++, and Python; and different Operating Systems and environments such as Windows, Unix and Linux.
• Review, assess, and develop algorithms, simulations, and metrics relating to visualization and decision support for cyber experimentation and operations.

Requirements

Masters degree in Electrical Computer Engineering/Computer Science and/or Embedded System Development and a minimum of 6 years directly related work experience

Additional Requirements
• Ability to successfully complete the CGI Background Investigation to include; 50 State Criminal, Education and Employment; Additionally, your ability to successfully complete a Credit and/or Driving Records Checks may be conducted if required by the contract for continued employment.
• Possession of an ACTIVE TOP SECRET security clearance is required to begin employment; US Citizenship is required.
• Lower level hardware knowledge down to the register and bit level (i.e. firmware/hardware)
• Familiar with computer architectures and operating systems to include different types of computer platforms (i.e. Unix/Linux/Windows).
• Understanding of computer networking to include communications protocols, protocol design and analysis software and network topology.
• Familiar with concepts associated with middleware to includes virtualization, cloud computing, web services, database applications and services; and data mining tools.
• Must develop briefings, information papers, meeting agendas, and other documents.
• IA Workforce certification IAW DoD 8570.01-M or ability to obtain within 6 months of commencing work.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Must be able to work a flexible work schedule – Work Schedule is: First week a 9 hour day 4 days/Friday 8 hours with the second week 4 days 9 hours and Friday a rotating day off.

Desired
• An affiliation with the IEEE, ACM or other standards organizations is of value.
The Company
At CGI, we’re a team of builders. We call our employees members because all who join CGI are building their own company – one that has grown to professionals located in 125 offices worldwide. Founded in 1976, CGI is a leading IT and business process services firm committed to helping clients succeed. We have the global resources, expertise, stability and dedicated professionals needed to achieve results for our clients – and for our members. Come grow with us. Learn more at www.cgi.com.

This is a great opportunity to join a winning team. CGI offers a competitive compensation package with opportunities for growth and professional development. Benefits for full-time, permanent members start on the first day of employment and include a paid time-off program and profit participation and stock purchase plans.

We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for this position, however, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

No unsolicited agency referrals please.

WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.
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Director of Cyber Security at SS8 in Milpitas, California

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 at 3:50 pm 
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Company Background:

We are a fast-paced, dynamic environment, surrounded by smart people, and powerful technology! Visualize yourself making a difference, where your idea*s become prototypes, you can see the results of your efforts, and your opinion is valued.

SS8 Networks is an established global provider of highly sophisticated communication interception and forensics solutions in the cyber security market. SS8*s solutions allow law enforcement agencies (LEA) and intelligence services to conduct lawful interception and cyber monitoring of both circuit and packet-mode communications, extract related metadata, accurately reconstruct all targeted voice and data communications (e.g. telephone calls, emails, chat sessions, web surfing, etc.) and provide comprehensive analysis of communications patterns * all in accordance with local laws and standards.

Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley, SS8 has a global reach with over 250 deployments in more than 25 countries in the world*s largest service provider wire-line, wireless, cable, VoIP and broadband IP data networks, supporting more than 500 million subscribers. SS8 solutions serve the communication interception and forensics needs of local, regional and national law enforcement and intelligence agencies to effectively and efficiently monitor electronic correspondence in today*s cyber world and apprehend terrorists and criminals in the real world

Director of IT/Secuirty

As the Director of Information Technology, you will be responsible for the strategic design, planning, and implementation of our corporate network and information security management program. Supporting a multi-site business with remote development and sales resources, you will be challenged to make a difference by improving our current IT business solutions to become more relevant for a fast growing global company. You will get your hands dirty! The successful candidate will be able to deliver against an IT network and security improvement plan that enables our business to sustain continued high growth. If you have been there and done that, and would like a chance to do it all again in a startup environment, this train is ready for you.

Key Responsibilities/Duties:

Network Security Architecture
Identity and Access Management Architecture
Architect, design, implement and support Identity and Access products
Security management over all aspects of information security
Computer incident response
Forensic investigation
Risk analysis
Business continuity planning
Regulatory compliance
Vulnerability assessments / management
Threat management
E-discovery
Writing corporate security policies/procedures/guidelines
Project management for the overall IT infrastructure, computing security and control infrastructure project.
Manage the corporate IT department including the corporate network and desktop support
Support our software applications such as Clearcase, the Intranet, manage network efficiency among our offices and the labs, and oversee facilities.
Desirable: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP); Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) or Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT)

Required Experience:

5-7 years leadership experience in networking security and multi-site IT services
Excellent leadership, communication and organizational skills
Hands on experience in Information Security Solution Architecture, email encryption solution, firewall, load balancer, proxy, portal, and web based applications
Very strong operations experience to work well in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment
Demonstrated track record in creating an environment where teams and groups achieve and surpass objectives and goals
Process and quality orientation with attention to detail
Self motivated leader, independent and driven by sense of accomplishment with the ability to rally the troops to do what it takes to meet the customer’s expectations.
Exceptional up beat and optimistic attitude, quick learner with the ability to understand and adapt to new technology
Must have the ability and availability to travel locally and internationally, up to 25%
US Citizenship REQUIRED

Education and other requirement:

BA/BS degree in a technology related field
Light travel required; could be up to 25% at times
US Citizenship REQUIRED

SEND resume and cover letter to: bmandell@ss8.com
Also, apply on line!

This is a FT role, must have US citizenship.
No 3rd party or recruiter calls, please!

Blair Mandell
SS8
750 Tasman Drive
Milpitas, CA 95035
Phone: (408) 944-0250