Cyber Security, Senior Incident and Threat Responder

Company: News Corporation
Location: New York
Posted on: April 1, 2025

Job Description:

Cyber Security, Senior Incident and Threat Responder - News CorpCyber Security, Incident and Threat ResponderLocation - NYC or Princeton NJHybrid - In office 3 days a weekThis role will work West Coast PST hoursAbout News CorpNews Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content to consumers throughout the world. The Company comprises leading businesses across a range of media, including: news and information services, digital real estate services, book publishing, digital education, and sports programming and pay-tv distribution.Team: News Corp - Cyber DefenseAs a Cyber Security, Incident and Threat Responder you will play a key role within our Cyber Defense team. This work includes effectively handling cyber security events and incidents, investigation and response to incidents, documentation and communication of relevant incidents to appropriate stakeholders, developing response plans, and conducting exercises to test response plans.Primary objectives for the role will be to minimize the impact of active security incidents through innovative approaches to incident response and to minimize the probability of security incidents through proactively improving our ability to prevent, detect, disrupt, investigate, respond to, and recover from those cyber risk events.Responsibilities

• Support internal incident response engagements to understand, mitigate and remediate threats and risks impacting News Corp Business Units.
• Perform complex incident response technical analysis and develop technical conclusions based on analysis of evidence; review analysis and conclusions of other team members.
• Monitor for and investigate internal and external threats leveraging best of breed technologies.
• Contribute to the Security Mission - correlating multiple data sources, analyzing the facts, determining best remediation strategy, and remediating until the incident is contained and resolved.
• Set standards for the documentation of activities during an incident, creation of security incident reports, and for conducting post-incident reviews.
• Drive continuous improvement through active collaboration with threat simulation, security architecture, detection and response engineering, and business unit teams.
• Spearhead the development of innovative approaches to detect, respond to, and eradicate advance threats; improve overall time to respond and eliminate threats; and increase effectiveness of analysts, including, but not limited to integration of innovative methodologies to understand attacker behavior, adoption of automation to support decision analysis, and implementation of orchestration.
• Engage in ongoing research in security tools, techniques, and procedures, as well as advanced Threat Detection initiatives based on aggressive security principles, machine learning algorithms, and threat mitigation techniques.
• Communication (both written and verbal) of incidents to appropriate stakeholders; targeting discussions to appropriate technical depth dependent on the audience.Skills
• The ideal Incident and Threat Responder will have a proven track record of working within the Security Incident Response space.
• A broad range of Cloud Security expertise is of interest.
• Familiar with tactics, techniques, and procedures commonly employed by threat actors, and their motivations.
• Strong technical communication skills (oral and written) including experience briefing executive management and desire to work with clients to solve complex security issues, including at times in crisis situations.
• Experience briefing senior-level leadership, and conveying technical subject matter to audiences of varying backgrounds and skill levels.
• Full-stack knowledge to understand modern attacks that involve networks, infrastructure, compute and applications.
• Familiarity with scripting/developing in modern languages like Python, Go, Ruby.
• Understanding of modern application architectures (serverless, mobile, distributed---).
• Demonstrated experience in Cloud incident response either as a senior security support engineer or SOC Engineer / Analyst.
• Public/Private Cloud Experience (preferably AWS).
• In-Depth OS Experience (RHEL, Ubuntu, Windows Server).
• Understanding of host based security and tooling.
• Ability to identify network attacks and systemic security issues as they relate to threats and vulnerabilities, with focus on recommendations for enhancements or remediation.
• Strong analytical skills/problem solving/conceptual thinking/attention to detail.
• Ability to work effectively with peers and multiple levels of management.
• Well organized, thorough, with the ability to balance and prioritize competing priorities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills across multiple levels of the organization.
• Highly self-motivated with the ability to identify areas of focus and tackle new challenges with or without direction.Experience
• Multiple years of cyber security experience.
• Preferably 5 years specializing in incident response and system monitoring and analysis, leading investigations and coordinating security response team activities.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information assurance, MIS or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Experience with security frameworks and privacy compliance requirements (ISO 27001, NIST CSF, GDPR, etc.).
• Knowledge of multiple computing platforms, including Network, Windows, OSX, Linux, Unix, networks and endpoints.
• Expertise using Security Correlation and Analytics platforms / SIEM platforms.
• Preferred certifications: GCFA, GCFE, CFCE, CDFE, CHFI or other forensic related certifications.Job Category:Pay Range: 110,000 - 145,000We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.Equal Opportunity EmployerAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets
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