Threat Hunting and Incident Response Consultant-Location Negotiable
Washington, DC

Job Description

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions - underpinned by the world's largest delivery network - Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With approximately 469,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

People in our Client Delivery & Operations career track drive delivery and capability excellence through the design, development and/or delivery of a solution, service, capability or offering. They grow into delivery-focused roles, and can progress within their current role, laterally or upward.

Security professionals apply deep security skills to design, build and protect enterprise systems, applications, data, assets and people for Accenture and our clients.

The Security Specialist apply deep security skills to provide the following Security Services: design, build and protect enterprise systems, applications, data, assets and people for Accenture and our clients. In addition, the role might require providing services to help clients protect their information, infrastructures, applications and business processes against cyber threats.

Job Description

Security and Risk professionals develop and deliver solutions that protect enterprise systems, applications and data by establishing policies, practices and tools that prevent unauthorized access, use, disclosure, modification or disruption.

A professional at this position level within Accenture has the following responsibilities:

Adapts existing methods and procedures to create possible alternative solutions to moderately complex problems.

Understands the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to team goals.

Uses considerable judgment to determine solution and seeks guidance on complex problems.

Primary upward interaction is with direct supervisor. May interact with peers and/or management levels at a client and/or within Accenture.

Determines methods and procedures on new assignments with guidance.

Decisions often impact the team in which they reside.

Manages small teams and/or work efforts (if in an individual contributor role) at a client or within Accenture.

FusionX is an elite cyber security consulting organization within Accenture Security, specializing in adversary simulation, red teaming, cyber defense consulting, incident response and threat hunting.

Our Cyber Investigation and Forensic Response (CIFR) practice is rapidly growing, and we are hiring mid to very senior level incident response and threat hunting professionals to work with our F500 enterprise customers. With our recent acquisitions we continue to enhance our incident response, threat hunting, forensics, threat intelligence, and red teaming capabilities.

At FusionX, you will be part of a specialized team to respond to some of the largest and most complex data breaches around the world, as well as conduct proactive cyber threat hunting in some of the most complex corporate environments, leveraging a variety of tools and techniques. You will work in a fast paced and highly collaborative environment.

Job Responsibilities:

* Identify and investigate intrusions to determine the cause and extent of the breach, leveraging threat intelligence sources
* Hunt for and identify threat actor groups and their techniques, tools, and processes
* Participate in Hunt missions using threat intelligence, analysis of anomalous log data and anomalous sessions to detect and eradicate threat actors
* Develop Threat Hunting dashboards and reports to identify potential threats, suspicious/anomalous activity, and malware
* Identify malicious or anomalous activity based on event data from network flows, EDR and other sources
* Perform deep dive analysis by correlating data from various sources
* Provide expert analytic investigative support for critical Incident Response security incidents
* Maintain proficiency with security standards, tools and practices
* Produce comprehensive and accurate oral and written reports and presentations for both technical and executive audiences
* Effectively communicate and interface with client, both technically and strategically from the executive level, to client stakeholders and legal counsel
* Act as an escalation support for client's Incident Response teams on critical security events
* On-site, client travel will be required for this position depending on client requirements, up to 50%