Senior Threat Researcher_Sophos Labs

Role Summary

Teams mandate is to find new and notable threats, assess their risk and produce protection where necessary. This include advanced targeted attacks, "attack tool" research, handling of vulnerability advisories and publishing blogs and whitepapers. The successful candidate will provide analysis of the evolving cyber threat landscape and contribute to create the next generation of SophosLabs research tools. The ideal candidate is passionate about computer security and has high aptitude for solving challenging puzzles with an attention to detail.

What you will do

• Perform cyber threat analysis utilizing multiple information sources
• Engage research based on cyber threat intelligence
• Investigate APT campaigns and understand cyber threat actors, their motivations and technical capabilities
• Identify steps to be taken to respond and minimize the impact of emerging threats
• Reverse engineer files to discover their intended functionality and risks to customers
• Write threat descriptions for publication on the Sophos website and threat research whitepapers in a timely fashion
• Triage requests submitted by other departments, respond to tasks or escalate complex issues to senior team members
• Generating intelligence on new trends in the Threat Landscape and distributing between departments outside of the Lab
• Identify opportunities to write blogs for the Sophos website to raise customer awareness

What you will bring

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