Staff Security Researcher - Ref7658Z

About Zscaler

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so that customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is the company’s cloud-native platform that protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. 

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. 

Zscaler was founded in 2007 with a mission to make the cloud a safe place to do business and a more enjoyable experience for enterprise users. Zscaler’s purpose-built security platform puts a company’s defenses and controls where the connections occur—the internet—so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications and workloads reside.

Job Description

Zscaler is looking for a highly technical Staff Security Researcher with significant experience in threat hunting. This position will be responsible for analyzing zscaler product telemetry and hunting for malware threats at scale through in-depth log analysis and malware behavior. The results will be used to develop innovative tools to automate further threat hunting, produce technical threat analytics reports, and publish research blogs.

Responsibilities

• Perform event correlation analysis using data gathered from a variety of sources to detect and confirm attacks
• Provide timely detection and alerting of possible attacks and intrusions
• Analyze activity to identify weaknesses that were exploited and perform root cause analysis
• Proactively hunting threats, blue teaming, performing exploit and vulnerability research, all in order to find and close holes exploited by bad actors.
• Malware, exploits and infection chain (kill-chain) research to ensure detection
• Write blog posts and whitepapers related to advanced threat analysis
• Write threat hunting signatures to discover new instances in Zscaler cloud and OSINT
• Work on internal automation projects and build tools to aid in threat hunting activities
• Continuously review security bulletins and related news; stay apprised of current threats and trends.

Qualificatons

• Required 7+ years hands-on threat hunting experience
• Strong understanding of tools, tactics and procedures (TTPs) of threats actors (eCrime/APT)
• Experience in incident analysis and response using industry standard frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and the cyber kill chain
• Experienced in security information and event management tools, such as Splunk, Elasticsearch.
• Experience with malware analysis - dynamic & static, Tools like – IDA Pro, Ollydbg, Wireshark etc.
• Must be able to validate findings, perform root cause analysis, and deliver recommendations for fixes.
• Strong scripting and automation skills are must (Python preferable)
• Must have excellent reporting and analytical skills.
• Strong understanding of web protocols and web application security
• Experience writing IDS/IPS, YARA signatures
• Must reside in Canada

Preferred

• TTP based threat hunting
• In-depth log analysis and malware tracking and monitoring
• Data mining experience with large security data sets such as IDS, IPS and firewall logs.

Education

• Bachelor’s or graduate degree from four-year college or university (preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline), or equivalent security industry work experience.

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