Cybersecurity Threat Researcher (Hybrid)
Summary
A cybersecurity researcher in KnowBe4's Threat Research Lab who analyzes phishing emails, malware, IOCs, and threat trends, deploys/configures endpoint, email, web, and network security products, and triages alerts from KnowBe4's email platform. Day-to-day involves threat intelligence work, Python/SQL-based analysis, and publishing external threat-lab content.
KnowBe4 empowers the modern workforce to make smarter security decisions every day. Trusted by more than 70,000 organizations worldwide, KnowBe4 is the pioneer of digital workforce security, securing both AI agents and humans. The KnowBe4 Platform provides attack simulation and training, collaboration security, and agent security powered by AIDA (Artificial Intelligence Defense Agents) and a proprietary Risk Score. The platform leverages 15-years of behavioral data to combat advanced threats including social engineering, prompt injection, and shadow AI. By securing humans and agents, KnowBe4 leads the industry in workforce trust and defense.
The Cybersecurity Threat Researcher works in the KnowBe4 Threat Research Lab, and is responsible for deploying and configuring various security products and solutions such as endpoint, email, web and network protection.
Responsibilities:
- Analysing trends and patterns in large data-sets to establish threat trends across regions, industries and business segment sizes.
- Have a passion for cyber security and thrive on solving difficult and complex problems.
- Have a genuine interest in mitigating phishing attacks and be familiar with recent vulnerabilities in our space.
- Investigate phishing emails and have an understanding of Malware Analysis (Configuration of isolated Malware Analysis VM, Identification of File Formats, Basic Static & Dynamic analysis)
- Experience with Threat Actor Tools and techniques
- Enjoy sharing their knowledge and working with team members and external stakeholders.
- Ability to communicate threat knowledge in a customer facing environment
- Assist and enable various departments within KnowBe4 with Threat Intelligence
- Triage, investigate, and respond to alerts coming in from the Knowbe4 email platform efficiently and without support.
- Independent research projects to contribute regularly to external-facing Knowbe4 Threat Labs content, such as blogs
Requirements:
- BS or equivalent plus 3 years experience
- MS or equivalent plus 1 year experience
- Well versed with IOCs, reverse engineering and threat campaign tracking
- Experience in malicious URL and phishing Email analysis
- Familiarity with Python automation preferred
- Experience in customer-facing environments
- Experience with triaging complex customer queries.
- Experience with databases (SQL or MQL) preferable
The compensation for this position ranges from $90,000 - $100,000, which will vary depending on how well an applicant's skills and experience align with the job description listed above.
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