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Job Posting Title: Security Outreach Researcher

Justification: Cisco Talos Outreach is the public face of Cisco Talos and provides both research as well as presentation collateral that is leveraged to close sales and educate customers and the general public of the amazing work of Cisco Secure and Cisco Talos. This role would help increase research capabilities, manage the incoming increase in requests associated with public/internal speaking.

Job Posting Details: 

Are you passionate about the changing threat landscape, love the challenge of understanding how the latest malware works, and can evangelize the risks and issues across a broad organization? Are you looking for a challenging position that will allow you to shape the future of security across the internet? Do you thrive on building a close-knit, highly-motivated team? Then join us! A successful candidate will work on a global team of senior security analysts focusing on the changing threat landscape and its effect on Cisco customers. This position requires a professional with a strong security software and threat analysis background that is capable of identifying and establishing the relationships and processes within and external to Cisco to build an investigative threat research structure and flow.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Promote Talos security thought leadership through media outreach and collaborative reporting.

Source and analyze data from available product sources across Cisco as well as externally from a variety of sources.

• Manage reporting and dissemination of security intelligence and research efforts

Act as principal investigator for internal and external research projects with intent to publish in peer-reviewed conferences and journals

• Monitor, identify, and respond to timely security events

Hunt malware, EK, and other bad things across various data sets

• Provide data driven insight for internal business intelligence and external communications with media, analysts and/or customers/stakeholders

Establish cross-departmental channels to facilitate collaborative research sharing for external reporting and internal business strategy

• Liaison with key security initiatives and groups within the security industry to better establish Cisco as both a security thought leader and trusted partner

Will require up to 20% travel

Requirements

• 5+ years direct and tightly integrated experience in security software or research industry

In depth understanding and knowledge of security

• Proven ability to work with media/journalists/analysts/the security community

Significant body of peer-reviewed papers and invited talks

• Strong data analytic skills

Ability to solve complex problems independently

• Strong written and oral communication skills

Ability to track and manage numerous parallel activities

• Ability to work on a remote team

Malware Analysis Experience: Static and dynamic analysis, Botnet tracking, malicious script analysis, reverse engineering.

• Scripting Experience in several languages

Alternatively job listing is still available here - https://web.archive.org/web/20210813060552/https://talosintelligence.com/careers/outreach_researcher

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.