Staff Security Researcher

4 days ago

Bengaluru, India Zscaler Full time

Company Description

With more than 10 years of experience developing, operating, and scaling the cloud, Zscaler serves thousands of enterprise customers around the world, including 450 of the Forbes Global 2000 organizations. In addition to protecting customers from damaging threats, such as ransomware and data exfiltration, it helps them slash costs, reduce complexity, and improve the user experience by eliminating stacks of latency-creating gateway appliances.

**Job Description**:
The **Staff Security Researcher** will report to **Director, Security Research**. The Staff Security Researcher will be primarily responsible for working on different cyber-security specific research projects, performing malware analysis (static and dynamic) and develop protection to prevent them, extract and analyze Indicators-Of-Compromise and come-up with new detection techniques.

**Responsibilities/What You’ll Do**:

- Perform malware analysis (static and dynamic) and develop protection to prevent them
- Perform reputation analysis on the IOCs extracted from the malicious samples’ analysis
- Track threat landscape, analyze emerging threats, identify TTP and develop detection and protection signatures
- Analyze various C2 framework & provide generic coverage for them
- Analyze vulnerabilities & develop coverage for known exploits & zero-days
- Perform QA and improve upon existing protection
- Develop automation to aid in research and analysis projects
- Write security blogs and papers related to threat analysis

**Qualifications**:

- 8+ years of experience in Cyber Security Research Domain
- Understanding of windows internals and API calls
- Understanding of malware categories
- Perform analysis of PE and Non-PE files
- Good knowledge of x86 assembly
- Debugging malware and reversing experience using tools such as Ollydbg, x64dbg,
- Immunity, IDA, or any debugger of choice is mandatory
- Good understanding of the TCP/IP protocol suite
- Experience writing IDS/IPS, YARA signatures
- Programming: Shell, Perl, Ruby, or Python

**Education**:

- B.E/M.E/B.Tech/M.Tech in Computer Science or Information Technology OR BCA/MCA
- Cyber Security Specific certifications desirable

Additional Information

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**Why Zscaler?**

People who excel at Zscaler are smart, motivated and share our values. Ask yourself: Do you want to team with the best talent in the industry? Do you want to work on disruptive technology? Do you thrive in a fluid work environment? Do you appreciate a company culture that enables individual and group success and celebrates achievement? If you said yes, we’d love to talk to you about joining our award-winning team.

Zscaler is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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