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Senior Insider Threat Analyst

Experis, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21276

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Sr. Insider Threat Analyst

is a member of the Insider Threat Team with primary responsibility for mitigating, identifying, and responding to insider threat security events. The Insider Threat team is responsible for preventing, detecting, and responding to data exfiltration, workplace violence, systems sabotage, misuse of corporate assets, and other threats. Lead and conduct complex and technical data analysis; develop and tune rules, policies, and alerts for DLP and UEBA applications; develop strategies to deter, detect, and respond to insider threats; and collaborate with security operation centers, digital forensics, and physical security teams.

Primary Duties And Accountabilities

Identify and Respond to Insider Threat Security Events

Respond, analyze, and triage alerts from DLP, UEBA, and other monitoring tools

Characterize and analyze information from enterprise cybersecurity tools to identify anomalous activity and potential threats

Coordinate with enterprise-wide cyber defense staff to validate network alerts

Analyze security incidents for trends and patterns to uncover anomalies, identify gaps, and propose risk‑mitigation solutions

Manage incident response and investigative leads, including notification and escalation. Coordinate with physical security, legal, and HR teams as required.

Develop insider threat use cases and tune DLP and UEBA rules and policies

Identify tools, policies, and rules to monitor for the use case; tune policies and rules to meet use‑case requirements

Modify rules and policies to increase accuracy and reduce false positives

Identify and integrate new data sources to detect insider threat activity

Perform security reviews, cyber‑defense trend analysis, and open‑source research

Identify vulnerabilities in security architecture or controls; recommend changes to mitigate risk

Analyze insider events to identify patterns and develop mitigation strategies

Conduct open‑source research about industry trends and developments in protecting company assets and countering insider threats

Prepare written reports summarizing significant industry insider events to draw lessons for the Insider Threat Program

Assist in the development of policy, processes, procedures, and associated metrics

Produce and deliver insider‑threat awareness briefings, debriefings, and training activities

Minimum Qualifications

MS Purview (REQUIRED)

Skill in collecting data from a variety of cyber defense resources and ability to interpret information collected to recognize threats

Knowledge of DLP, UEBA, and logging applications; skill tuning policies within these tools

Knowledge of incident response and handling methodologies

Knowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies

Knowledge of host/network access control mechanisms

Knowledge of operating systems

Knowledge of cyber‑attack stages and techniques used by malicious insiders

Knowledge of security controls frameworks and ability to assess organizational security posture against these frameworks

Skill in conducting trend analysis

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, cybersecurity, or a related 4‑year technical degree with 10+ years of experience in IT or cybersecurity, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level.

Employment type: Contract.

Job function: Information Technology. Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting.

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