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JOB DESCRIPTION
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Position: Threat Analyst
Location: McLean, Virginia, United States
Type: Permanent F/T
Closing Date: 2007-09-13
Candidate will leverage FirstLight infrastructure and technology to identify
new threats and develop signatures for both known and unknown attacks.
Candidate’s regular duties will involve varying levels of proof-of-concept
exploit development, reverse engineering, signature development, and advisory
preparation.
Key Functions:
• Analyze Honeynet traffic to identify new threats
• Develop proof-of-concept exploits for partially disclosed
vulnerabilities
• Develop IDS/IPS signatures for threats
• Reverse engineer patched software
• Malware analysis
• Prepare security advisories and threat analyses
• Develop and extend automated unpacking tools
JOB REQUIREMENTS
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• 3 or more years experience with TCP/IP networking protocols
• 2 or more years experience with a high-level scripting language such as
Perl or Python
• 2 or more years experience with Snort or similar IDS/IPS product
• Advanced knowledge of vulnerability exploitation, including buffer
overflows, integer overflows, XSS, SQL Injection etc.
• 2 or more years experience reverse engineering with experience using
one of IDA Pro, PaiMei, OllyDbg or MS Detours.
CONTACT
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Endeavor Security, Inc.
Jason Royes
Director of Engineering
jroyes@endeavorsecurity.com
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