Senior Threat Hunter (Lead)

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

Job Description
The Threat Assessment and Incident Response Expert leads the development and execution of cybersecurity threat assessments, penetration testing, and incident response plans and procedures for multiple areas; directs forensic and technical investigations, and advises governance, technical, and business leadership on results, vulnerabilities, and solutions to mitigate.

The Allstate Information Security (AIS) department is responsible for managing cyber security at Allstate. This includes Governance/Risk/Compliance, Access Management, Network Security, and Threat Response Services. The department is responsible for ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Allstate systems.

We are seeking an experienced Threat Hunter to perform intelligence-driven network defense supporting the monitoring and incident response capabilities. The role will involve analysis of large amounts of data from vendors and internal sources, including various indicator feeds, Splunk, and several threat intelligence tools, etc. The candidate will perform the functions of threat hunting and serve as a liaison for Threat Services for the Global Security Fusion Center, and mentor the incident handling and forensics teams.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design and run custom analysis models on security event information to discover active threats
• Identify (hunting) security nuances and abnormalities in the environment
• Providing mentorship and support to teammates to help enrich and develop others in the team and within other areas of the GSFC regarding threat hunting
• Develop use cases and actionable content to identify security variants that are currently not alerted within the environment
• Lead projects and assignments
• Custom tool design to assist in analysis and investigations
• Perform as an Information Security SME in four of the following areas:

• Threat Intelligence
• Incident Response
• Log analysis (statistical modeling, correlation, pattern recognition, etc.)
• Microsoft platform (Server, workstation, applications)
• Open Systems platforms (Linux, UNIX, VM Ware ESX)
• Web Application
• Networking (firewalls, IDS/IPS, packet capture)
• Databases (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, IMS)
• SIEM
• Reverse Engineering / Malware analysis

• Bachelors and/or Masters Degree in Engineering, Computers Science, or related field/experience (4+ years)
• 4+ years overall technical experience in either threat hunting, threat intelligence, incident response, security operations, or related information security field
• Deep understanding of common network and application stack protocols, including but not limited to TCP/IP, SMTP, DNS, TLS, XML, HTTP, etc.
• Advanced experience with security operations tools, including but not limited to:
  • SIEM (e.g. Splunk, ArcSight, Sentinel)
  • Network analysis/information (e.g. NetWitness, PaloAlto, Shodan, Censys)
  • Signature development/management (e.g. Spunk rules, Snort rules, Yara rules)
  • EDR solutions (e.g. CrowdStrike, Tanium, Carbon Black)
  • Malware Analysis (e.g. Sandbox, Disassembler, IDA Pro, Ghidra, Debugger, OllyDbg, ReversingLabs, Secure Malware Analytics)
  • Threat Intelligence (RecordedFuture, ThreatConnect, Maltego, ZeroFox)
• Broad experience with various common security infrastructure tools (NIDS, HIPS, EDR, etc.)
• Experience hunting in AWS and/or Azure environments

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, a passion for research and puzzle-solving
• Strong communication (oral, written, presentation), interpersonal and consultative skills
• Deep understanding of large, complex corporate network environments
• Knowledge or experience in penetration testing, ethical hacking, exploit writing, and/or vulnerability management
• Knowledge or experience in application design/engineering, including but not limited to programming/scripting, Windows/Linux system administration, RDBMS/NoSQL database administration, etc.
• Scripting experience related to system administration and security operations (Python, Bash, PowerShell, Perl, C/C++)
• Recent experience with malware analysis and reverse engineering
• Strong organization and documentation skills
• Obtained certifications in several of the following: SANS GIAC courses, CEH, CISSP, OSCP, or tool-specific certifications