Threat Analyst

Employment Type: Full time

Position Overview:

CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity, protecting the people, processes, and technologies that drive modern organizations. Our mission is to stop breaches, and we have redefined modern security with the world's most advanced AI-native platform. We are a mission-driven company that cultivates a culture of flexibility, autonomy, and innovation. We are seeking talented individuals with a passion for cybersecurity, a relentless focus on innovation, and a fanatical commitment to our customers, community, and each other.

The CrowdStrike Data Science Machine Learning Operations and Response Team is looking for a customer- and team-focused Threat Analyst. This role will involve both response and proactive aspects, making it ideal for individuals with experience in detections and/or reverse engineering. The primary responsibility will be to analyze malware and detections by investigating individual customer detection tickets. This team is dedicated to improving detection capability and efficiency through the analysis of malware and other threat detections impacting our customer base. Experience with detections of potentially malicious behavior by machine learning models is a plus.

This role will support internal partners in resolving questions about detections of potentially malicious activity by machine learning and our detection capabilities. The team's goal is to assist internal teams in responding to customer inquiries about threat detection and to provide insights into the effects of our detections to the Data Science organization, including detection efficacy and managing false positive detections.

This role will collaborate closely with internal teams such as Technical Account Managers, Falcon Complete, Data Scientists, and the Malware Research Center in Data Science.

Responsibilities:

• Review current product detections to ensure they are performing to the company standard.
• Perform tasks to enable better management of false positive detections.
• Analyze binary files to determine their legitimacy.
• Address internal questions and concerns regarding customer threat detections.

Requirements:

• Exposure and understanding of different types and functionality of malware.
• Experience with reverse engineering malware, or malware operations.
• Knowledge of programming and scripting languages, in particular Python.
• Fundamental understanding of attributes of binary files such as imports/exports and packers.
• Knowledge of MacOS and/or Linux.
• Ability to demonstrate practical knowledge of research/collection skills and analytical methods.
• General understanding of threat/risk management and threat/risk assessment.
• Familiarity with various operating systems.
• Ability to break down complex problems into workable components.

Bonus Points:

• Experience in a security operations center or similar environment responding to incidents.
• A thorough understanding of Windows OS internals and the Windows API.
• Familiarity with tools used in targeted and criminal cyber-intrusions.
• A background in exploit and vulnerability analysis.

Company Information:

CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn’t changed — we’re here to stop breaches, and we’ve redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced AI-native platform. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We’re also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every CrowdStriker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. The future of cybersecurity starts with you.