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SECURITYFOCUS JOBS - NEW OPPORTUNITY
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JOB DESCRIPTION
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Position: Sr. Security Analyst
Location: Arlington, Virginia, , United States
Type: Permanent F/T
Closing Date: 2006-06-21
Securicon, LLC has a Control System’s Analyst position available in the
Arlington, Virginia area supporting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
US-CERT Operations Center in coordinating defense against and responding to
cyber attacks against our nation’s critical infrastructures (regular
workday hours).
Control systems, which consist of computers, process control equipment, and
process interface systems, monitor and manage our nation’s most critical
infrastructure processes, such as electricity generation, transmission and
distribution; natural gas production and distribution; petroleum products
refining; transportation systems monitoring and control, water supply;
wastewater treatment; chemical processing; discrete manufacturing; and numerous
other critical functions. Names often associated with control systems are:
SCADA – Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition; DCS –Distributed
Control System; PCS – Process Control System; EMS – Energy Management
System; SIS –Safety Instrumented System; and MC&S – Manufacturing and
Control System.
The position will reside in the US-CERT Operations Center and will involve
facilitating the US-CERT capability to coordinate control systems incident
management, provide timely situational awareness information for control
systems, and manage control systems cyber vulnerability and risk reduction
activities. Specific responsibilities will include:
1. Maintaining a high level of situational awareness of events impacting the
control systems community through outreach, research, and daily review/analysis
of numerous information/data feeds available to US-CERT.
2. Liaising between the US-CERT and National Laboratories, Federal agency
partners, vendors, academia, and control systems owners and operators.
3. Serving as control systems specialist within US-CERT watch and supporting
all efforts involving control systems cyber security.
Securcion, LLC is fast-growing security consulting company comprised of
highly-skilled information security professionals brought together from
numerous industry leading security organizations and public sector agencies.
Securicon professionals have provided years of advanced security consulting to
hundreds of commercial, federal and state organizations in developing
comprehensive security strategies and implementing risk-appropriate security
solutions to directly address each client’s unique security needs.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
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1. Top Secret Clearance (capable of obtaining SCI)
2. Experience working in a Security Operations Center or equivalent.
3. Control systems experience/knowledge – preferred; however, control
systems training would be provided to candidate with strong computer
networking/cyber security skills.
4. Incident Analysis experience preferred.
5. Strong Computer Security background.
6. Self-starter with the ability to work independently.
7. Strong Writing and Presentation Skills.
8. Ability to work well in a team setting.
9. Industry Certifications a plus.
10. Degree preferred.
11. Ability to work in an operational environment, establish relationships with
control system community participants, and ability to communicate with control
system community contacts on short notice in response to real-world events.
CONTACT
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Please send resume or questions about position to careers@securicon.com
Securicon, LLC
Michael Flemming
careers@securicon.com
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