Principal Threat Intelligence Consultant

Ironwood Digital provides trusted cybersecurity expertise, solutions and services that help organizations make better decisions and minimize risk. By taking a three-tiered, holistic approach for evaluating security posture and ecosystems, GuidePoint enables some of the nation’s top organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, to identify threats, optimize resources and integrate best-fit solutions that mitigate risk. Description Ironwood Digital’s Research & Intelligence Team (GRIT) performs the following: Threat Intelligence as a Service Threat Intelligence Maturity Assessments Malware Analysis Proactive Threat Discovery and Threat Hunting Purple Team Exercises (as Blue Team in collaboration with GuidePoint Red Team) Threat Research As a Principal GRIT Consultant, you will be a technical resource that leverages your knowledge, skills, and experience to help deliver results to clients in various sectors as well as helping to lead the GRIT team. Role Requirements Your primary responsibilities revolve around solving challenging and complex problems and include helping customers reach their goals with Threat Intelligence. In that effort GRIT strives to either offer Threat Intelligence as a Service or help the client mature their program to meet their goals, including providing workshops and documentation. Additional duties with this role include researching the latest threats, providing malware analysis support, giving threat briefs to customers and senior leadership, and assisting the DFIR team on an as needed basis. Ironwood Digital’s GRIT service offerings are perpetually evolving in response to emerging threats and diverse client needs, and your creativity and expertise will assist the GRIT Practice with adapting to this rapidly changing environment. Primary Duties will include: Operate as a technical resource within the Practice and actively participate in DFIR investigations to provide actionable intelligence. Mentor junior analysts and provide leadership. Effective engagement communication, time management, and collaboration with peers. Author comprehensive engagement deliverables that are tailored to both technical and managerial audiences as well as fully detail the technical findings, recommendations, business impact, and realistic remediation strategies. Foster client relationships by providing support, information, and guidance. Utilize automation, orchestration, and scripting to reduce manual processes, improving overall efficiency while also enabling new capabilities to meet the rapidly changing needs of our clients. Contribute to integration of existing and future open-source and commercial tools to help improve GRIT processes and procedures. Perpetually strengthen relevant skills, knowledge, and abilities to stay at the forefront of the information security industry. Maintain a strong desire to learn, adapt, and improve along with a rapidly-growing company. Perform other duties as assigned. Education and Experience Essential Qualifications Five (5+) years of experience performing Threat Intelligence analysis. Five (7+) combined years of IT and information security experience. Embraces emerging technologies, including AI tools, to work smarter, solve problems, and drive better business outcomes. Preferred Qualifications Prior experience in a Consulting Services role. Experience implementing or improving operational processes or procedures in the intelligence analysis lifecycle. Proficiency hunting APT data using open source or commercial cyber threat analytic tools or data repositories such as VirusTotal, Passive Total, Threat Miner, or Maltego. Core capabilities include: Network traffic analysis Host forensics Malware handling / triage Log review Experience with a variety of industry-related solutions including EDR, SIEM, NDR, FW, NGAV, Velociraptor, OSQuery, and others. Strong ability to correlate data and research using open source repositories (ex. VirusTotal, Domaintools, Threatminer, etc.) Intermediate ability to present technical information and analysis to audiences up to 50 persons on a quarterly basis. Ability to apply formal intelligence analysis methods, develop hypothesis, prove/disprove relationships, always ask why, defend your analysis, and apply attribution to cyber threat activity. Ability to make confidence-based assessments for purposes of attribution based on their technical analysis of network traffic, multi-source data, malware and system analysis. Candidate must be able to identify analytic bias. Experience with common programming languages including PowerShell, Python, BASH, Go, or others. Experience with cloud technologies for the enterprise, such as Amazon Web Services, G Suite, Office 365, and Azure. Awareness of attacker techniques, advanced threat groups, and integration of intelligence into an investigation. Other relevant industry certifications, such as but not limited to GCIA, GCIH, GDAT, GCFE, and GFCA. We use Greenhouse S