DFIR Senior Analyst

Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth. This position supports the Data & Technology practice - one of six practices focused on client delivery services across the Firm.

Practice Overview

Ankura’s Cyber Security and Privacy Practice is a full-service suite of Cyber Security and Privacy solutions, regardless of industry or size. Our global team of over 100 professionals includes former federal law enforcement personnel, in-house security experts, Big 4 consultants, federal regulators, threat intel and dark web experts. We have helped clients and partners for 10+ years across industries and geographies with the following services:

• Incident Response, Intelligence, and Investigations.
• End Point & Managed Detection & Response.
• Technology, Privacy, and Cyber Risk Advisory.

The EMEA Cyber Security & Privacy practice is growing and has ambitions to expand its capabilities from a strong base in incident response, intelligence and investigations into additional proactive security, AI security and managed detection & response services.

Why Join Ankura

• Have the opportunity to get involved in challenging client projects with both Proactive and Reactive work.
• We can support and develop individuals who aspire to be an expert.
• Vast opportunities for career development, with a formal development process, training programmes and the internal e-learning training platform, Ankura Academy.
• Work with a collaborative environment, whereby our professionals have the freedom to innovate which promotes curiosity, learning and communication.

Role

We are seeking a Manager level candidate with Incident Response and project management experience gained in professional services.

Responsibilities

• Respond to cyber incidents reported by clients.
• Manage cyber incident responses and incident response teams.
• Lead cyber investigations.
• Understanding of incident analysis workflow and tools.
• Quality control reviews of team members deliverables and work processes.
• Perform project management and engagement risk management activities.
• Support financial management of individual projects and cyber incident response team.
• Manage time, tasks and resources to meet internal and external deadlines.
• Lead client communications, both written and oral, throughout the lifecycle of the project.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science or Cyber Security, or related equivalent.
• Experience at Manager level within management consulting and the Incident Response field is essential.
• Able to communicate effectively and concisely with high level management and C-suite clients on a frequent basis.
• Adept in setting up new engagements to support clients in responding to incidents.
• Capable of managing both short term and long-term projects.
• Understanding of engagement risk.
• Exposure to responding to incidents including Ransomware, ATP attacks, BEC, Cloud etc a plus.
• Experience of managing teams and performance management of individuals.
• Ability to identify opportunities within existing and potential clients.
• Experience working with non-Windows systems (such as Linux, Unix, Mac).
• Scripting/programming experience (specifically Python, C#, VBA, or Powershell).
• Experience working in a consultancy environment.
• Exposure to AI technologies, techniques and approaches within the DFIR domain.
• Strong desire to work in a team in a collaborative environment to achieve common goals.
• Exceptional organisational skills.
• Passion for Cyber Incident Response, and a desire for continuous improvement in expertise.
• Ability to correlate events from multiple sources to create a timeline analysis across end points of an incident.
• Understanding of how to leverage existing security applications and appliances to address a compromise or malware/ransomware outbreak.
• Experience working with Enterprise networks.
• Understanding of mitigation and clean-up strategies.
• Proficient in log analysis of multiple types.
• Ability to analyse complex network packet captures.
• Understanding of memory, how to capture, data available and analysis skills.
• Understanding of how to take malware apart from a virtual machine, dynamic malware analysis, and reverse engineering perspective.
• Ability to travel (including occasional international travel) at short notice.
• Available to be on-call 1 in 4 weekends each month.