What's Great About Sophos?
· Sophos operates a remote-first working model, and working remotely is the primary option for most employees
· Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit
· Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy
· Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities
· Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint
· Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp
· Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge
· Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing
Role Summary
Threat hunter? Programmer? Data-driven? We have a fantastic opportunity here at Sophos Labs for a Threat Researcher to join our global team of behavior-based detection engineers, to hunt, to research, and to add real-time detection for suspicious activity across our customer environments. Our team of skilled security experts combine their passion to detect & disrupt cyber-attacks with their capability to develop classification rules that can cut through the noise in modern computing environments to tease out attacker’s nefarious activities. You are intrinsically motivated to understand the core logic behind malware and hacking attacks, to find & predict new ways attackers will modify their techniques and take great satisfaction in developing robust detection logic that is immune to evasive actions. You will be responsible for writing rules that are able to signal early to late-breaking IOCs that highlight customers under attack, which are the foundation of Sophos next-gen approach. Above all - you enjoy thinking creatively; combining your deep technical knowledge, your tenacity for innovation, and your can-do attitude to solve complex and challenging problems on a daily basis.
Our team is active in the wider threat research community. Take a look at some recent publications:
What You Will Do
- Understand malware kill chain & hands-on-keyboard attacks
- Accurate & efficient classification of malicious & suspicious behavior
- Mapping IOCs to MITRE Att&ck matrix
- Author classification rules, for both Endpoint & Cloud scenarios, to identify malicious & suspicious use of TTPs
- Analyze real-world kill chains to discover new TTPs and gaps in coverage
- Measure and tune TTP coverage through data mining, customer telemetry & internal sandbox feeds
- Build & maintain playbooks on threat actor TTPs
What You Will Bring
- Strong knowledge of Windows operating system, internals & forensic tools
- Programming experience, Python/Lua
- Excellent grasp of MITRE Att&ck tactics, techniques & simulation
- Familiar with computational cost analysis & problem solving to minimize impact
- Bachelor degree in Computer Software (Computer Security preferable)
- Big data experience, Elastic Search, Kibana, Redshift
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Ready to Join Us?
At Sophos, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives to fuel innovation. Research shows that candidates sometimes hesitate to apply if they don't check every box in a job description. We challenge that notion. Your unique experiences and skills might be exactly what we need to enhance our team. Don't let a checklist hold you back – if you're passionate about cybersecurity and ready to contribute, we encourage you to apply. We're excited to explore how your individuality can shape the future of our company.
About Us
Sophos is a worldwide leader in next-generation cybersecurity, protecting more than 500,000 organizations and millions of consumers in more than 150 countries from today’s most advanced cyber threats. Powered by threat intelligence, AI, and machine learning from SophosLabs and SophosAI, Sophos delivers a broad portfolio of advanced products and services to secure users, networks, and endpoints against ransomware, malware, exploits, phishing, and a wide range of other cyberattacks. Sophos provides a single integrated cloud-based management console, Sophos Central – the centerpiece of an adaptive cybersecurity ecosystem that features a centralized data lake that leverages a rich set of open APIs available to customers, partners, developers, and other cybersecurity vendors. Sophos sells its products and services through reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide. Sophos has major hubs around the globe. More information is available at
www.sophos.com.
Our Commitment To You
We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.
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