Threat Researcher Iii

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About the Role:
Malware Research Center

The CrowdStrike Malware Research Center is the core of Falcon’s malware detection and response capabilities. The team has a focus on understanding the threat landscape and sets the target for what Falcon should be identifying and preventing. Additionally, the MRC is responsible for understanding our capabilities, and mapping how well our machine learning and behavioral protection capabilities are doing against those threats. Where there is a gap, the MRC takes action to improve our detection stance, and improve our overall protection story. There are many parts of CrowdStrike working towards protecting customer environments, and the MRC works across all of them to ensure we are on target and providing the best protection for our current threat landscape.

Threat Research Team

Leading the charge for understanding the activity of malware today is the Threat Research team. With a focus on malware research, the primary role of the team is to understand relevant threats and techniques used in malware that is threatening our customer’s business. The challenge is the enormous scale of malware today and sheer number of samples required to be addressed. This takes a more creative approach than traditional Anti-Virus research, focusing on one sample at a time. The modern threat lab requires an economy of scale through automation and machine learning to allow people to focus on new learnings, and let systems continue to identify malware based on what the team has learned.

**Job Description**:
The Threat Analyst will take input from many sources and validate if those threats are something Falcon can mount an effective defense against. The analysis can range from simple execution and review of the behaviors to reverse engineering. As Falcon is first a behavior based system, understanding how the threat is working and what it is doing to interact with the host environment can be important. The Threat Analyst will be expected to use the appropriate technique to efficiently understand the threat to identify how to best mitigate it.

As the gateway to the response organization for many new threats, good cross team collaboration skills are important. Clear, effective communication of technical details in a means which is actionable is the key to success.

**Requirements**:
- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or comparable field required.- 6+ year’s experience in the threat research field with a focus on malware analysis.- A proven background in advanced reverse engineering on file-based threats, exploits, and other attack techniques are desirable to be demonstrated at a moderate skill level.- A reasonable level of proficiency in disassembly.- To operate at the level required to disassemble, core principles of structured programming are required to be proficient in.- Expert level familiarity with at least one major Operating System is required as a behavior based system requires in-depth knowledge of how the host OS appears, as opposed to how the end user sees it.- A good working knowledge of malware based automation workflows and techniques.- The Threat Research team is supported by an engineering team, but proof of concept automation is produced by researchers. Showing competence handing off research to engineering to produce results and ability to produce small code projects to address immediate needs.- Strong interpersonal communications skills, with the ability to demonstrate leadership and team building expertise.- Experience with threats on mobile devices, and an understanding of security in mobile devices is a plus

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