Senior Security Researcher
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Nov 11, 2024 | |
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OverviewWe are looking for a Senior Security Researcher to join our organization to produce custom threat intelligence content for Microsoft customers including engaging directly with a variety of customers to provide briefings or respond to intelligence inquiries. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Security represents one of the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) is focused on discovering and tracking threats to customers. MSTIC focuses on reducing global harm and protecting Microsoft and its customers using threat intelligence. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Part of MSTIC's mission is to make Microsoft threat intelligence the first place for authoritative, high-quality knowledge on threats. The team provides context on the threats that impact customers and owns the single voice of threat intelligence for Microsoft through a central content source. This team supports Microsoft's security products and services with threat intelligence fusion and customer-ready content. We are looking for a Senior Security Researcher to join our organization to produce custom threat intelligence content for Microsoft customers including engaging directly with a variety of customers to provide briefings or respond to intelligence inquiries. They should be able to combine their technical skills and firm grasp of intelligence analysis tradecraft with enthusiasm, ingenuity, results-orientation, and ability to work with the rest of the team. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
ResponsibilitiesCritical thinking skills to tackle complex analytic problems to include analyzing cyber security threats, contextualizing and writing customer-facing content on cyber security threats, and adapting to changing focus as the threat landscape changes. Responsibilities include: - Researching, analyzing, and contextualizing threat actor, tool, technique and vulnerability related threat intelligence. - Writing complex, customer-facing finished intelligence products on cyber security threats.Creating and delivering security threat focused briefings and presenting to high-level external security audiences. - Adapting your writing style to create new content based on business needs and customer feedback.Identifies, conducts, and supports others in conducting research into critical security areas, such as current attacks, adversary tracking, and the broader cyber security landscape. Partners cross-functionally (e.g., across disciplines, teams, or security versus non-security) research the latest attacks. Advocates priorities. Solicits feedback and evaluates results to incorporate into future research. Demonstrates judgment in identifying projects and priorities. Works with others to synthesize research findings into recommendations for mitigation of security issues. Shares across teams. Drives change within team based on research findings. Contributes to customer-facing products and professional community through publications. | |