Sr. Cybersecurity Consultant (DFIR)
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West Monroe is looking for a Senior Digital Forensics Consultant to join our Tech - Cybersecurity practice and help resolve complex client data breaches during and after Incident Response & Recovery (IR&R) engagements. As part of this work, we assist clients that are experiencing a ransomware event or similar security incident and are often going through some level of business outage. Our IR&R teams investigate these types of attacks, uncover critical information, and utilize their findings to engineer a real-time fix. Our senior consultants are typically tasked with leading workstreams, forensic imaging & analysis, ransomware remediation, threat hunting, and creating investigative summaries.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with incident response and infrastructure recovery consultants to plan, coordinate, and execute remediation during client security incidents (I.e. ransomware event)
- Apply forensic methodology and analysis to a variety of file systems to retrieve data (I.e. FAT, NTFS, HFS, ext2, ext3)
- Identify, contain, eradicate, and recover client information assets from risks caused by the breach
- Drive digital forensic investigations through the entire lifecycle, including case planning, intake, acquisition, examination, presentation, and disposition
- Conduct investigations of impacted hardware devices, software, and mobile applications to create investigative summaries and generate extraction reports for client executive presentations
- Spearhead reactive and proactive threat hunting engagements and perform endpoint, network, and log analysis
- Review and recommend technical, processes, and physical controls to mitigate damage from breach presence
- Translate business and technical requirements into concrete projects proposals, including detailed work plans and cost estimates, to assist in sales efforts and develop client relationships
- Promote thought leadership in emerging DFIR technologies by leveraging go-to-market offerings, speaking at events, representing us at tech conferences, writing blog posts, etc.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in relevant field preferred, or equivalent experience required
- Consulting firm/industry experience preferred
- 3-7+ years of experience that has focused on IT, cybersecurity, digital forensics, and/or incident response
- Experience with digital forensic investigation and other cybersecurity tools, such as Carbon Black, EnCase Endpoint Investigator, F-Response, FTK, Exabeam, etc.
- Well-versed in incident response engagements, preferably at the enterprise level: technical recovery, IT forensic investigation, threat hunting, legal or compliance notifications, IR plan development, tabletop testing, etc.
- Understanding of application, database, authentication, and network security principles
- Strong organizational, verbal, presentation/facilitation, and written communication skills
- Willingness to travel for out of town client engagements – COVID-19 permitting
- Bonus: industry certifications such as CISSP, CFCE, GCFA/GIAC, EnCE, CEH, OSCP
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