Help Wanted: Biden campaign hiring cyber professionals - FCW.com

Help Wanted: Biden campaign hiring cyber professionals - FCW.com

Cybersecurity


Help Wanted: Biden campaign hiring cyber professionals


  • By Derek B. Johnson

  • Jul 08, 2020

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    Joe Biden is looking for cybersecurity help.


    The presidential campaign for former vice president and current Democratic nominee put out a job notice for a senior cyber incident response and threat analyst. According to the notice, the position would work out of the campaign’s Philadelphia headquarters and “collaborate with a team of engineers to identify potential threats and investigate anomalous activity.”


    The analyst would help prevent, investigate and remediate digital security threats to the Biden campaign. Other duties include log analysis, conducting host-based and network forensic investigations of cybersecurity incidents, tuning security controls to improve the efficacy of security sensors, and developing use cases based on adversarial tactics, techniques and procedures.


    The campaign is looking for someone with more than five years of experience in a technical role and who is proficient in Python, Powershell, Bash and other programming languages. Applicants would also need to have experience with cloud architecture, incident response strategy and Security Information and Event Management tools like Splunk.

    The campaign is also looking to hire a senior cloud security architect with a background in threat modeling, core cryptography concepts and experience working with Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud applications.


    The notices state that both positions would “work closely with the Chief Information Security Officer,” but it’s not clear who that would be. The Biden ..

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