Security Researcher 2
3 weeks ago
Overview
Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.
We are seeking a well-rounded Security Researcher with the right blend of creativity, tenacity, and data skills to join Microsoft Email Security Research Team to protect customers from advanced email-borne threats. In this role, your primary responsibilities include (1) researching and understanding email-borne threats (Malware, APT, Phish, SPAM, BEC), (2) writing robust threat detections and (3) doing in depth investigative response to mitigate detection issues faced by Microsoft and customers. You’ll be working collaboratively with Engineering, Threat Intelligence and Data Science teams to improve our defense-in-depth capabilities to thwart persistent threats. In addition, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the development and improvement of the toolset and/or detection engines by adding new features and capabilities.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Qualifications
• 6+ years of experience investigating and responding to security incidents originating from the web or email (comparable experience in a similar domain will be considered) • 4+ years of experience querying and analyzing large datasets, including experience building automated reports, alerting, workflows, and/or business intelligence solutions. (e.g. SQL, Python, KQL/Azure Data Explorer, Excel, PowerBI, etc.) • 2+ years writing detection using Snort, Yara, Sandbox or proprietary detection engine. • 2+ years performing threat hunting or deep familiarity of incident response procedures, processes, and tools. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. • Excellent cross group and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate the business need for security or detection improvements. • Availability and willingness to cover a periodic on-call rotation for the team.
Other Requirements
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check:
- This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
• 8+ years writing detection using Snort, Yara, Sandbox or proprietary detection engine. • 5+ years performing threat hunting or incident response and deeply familiar with email incident response procedures, processes, and tools. • 3+ years of computer security experience doing threat analysis or reverse engineering. • 3+ years of experience in SOC or Blue team in large-scale computing. • Expert in one or more programming languages: C/C++/C#, Python, R, or Java. • Insatiable curiosity to learn about attacker patterns and behaviors, with a drive to build innovative detections and protections. • Experience working through ambiguity to drive innovations in detections, monitoring, and internal team processes. • Solid understanding of attacker tradecraft associated with email and web-based threats. • Strong ability to use data to “tell a story” and influence decision-making. • Experience creating, using, or contributing to the development and validation of machine learning models.
Responsibilities
As a Security Researcher on the team with a concentration in data analytics, you will be responsible for: • Developing alerting, reporting, and automated detection solutions • Authoring rules and creating new ML features to thwart evolving email-based attacks. • Conducting deep research on attacker campaigns and techniques to support durable detection investments and improve customer experience. • Write generic and durable threat detections based on Static and Dynamic detection engines. • Conduct proactive and reactive threat hunting and identify detection issues such as misses or misclassifications from a large-scale dataset. • Responding to escalations to resolve detection effectiveness issues (misclassified spam/phish and false positives) • Design and develop novel threat detection techniques or methodologies from creating proof-of-concept to productizing the solution. • Engaging and collaborating with diverse partner teams to drive great customer experiences and ensure holistic protection across the Microsoft Security stack. • Develop and maintain incident response playbooks to improve process and team capabilities. • Build tools and automation to improve productivity.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.Industry leading healthcareEducational resourcesDiscounts on products and servicesSavings and investmentsMaternity and paternity leaveGenerous time awayGiving programsOpportunities to network and connect-
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