Staff Threat Researcher

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Corporate Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.
Protection Starts with People.  Proofpoint.

As a Proofpoint Threat Researcher, you will combine your infosec experience with your data analysis skills to make threat information meaningful for customers and available through products and intelligence reports.

You’ll interpret malware analysis results, identify and analyze campaigns, hunt through massive amounts of data to discover previously unknown threats, and develop tools to enable the analytic process.

You’ll be a part of a global team of dynamic and creative threat researchers focused on effectively identifying and communicating customer-relevant threats.

Your day-to-day

• Analyze threat data from internal and external sources in a proactive self-directed fashion as well as in response to customer inquiries
• Analyze campaign activity and author customer-specific threat reports Interpret malware analysis results to assess and accurately communicate risk
• Stay abreast of and periodically report on the threat landscape Investigate and publish research results on threats targeting specific verticals or geographies Investigate and publish research results on malware families, malware variants, and emerging malware Investigate and publish research results on TTPs, security developments, and current infosec-related events
• Proactively hunt through data to discover and report on previously unknown threats
• Develop scripts and leverage data science tools to access, retrieve, parse, correlate and analyze massive amounts of threat data from multiple sources
• Participate in customer meetings to inform hunting and research activities
• Document your amazing work so that others may learn and leverage
• Collaborate on research projects with the broader threat research team Work effectively as part of a remote team using chat, video chat and conference calls

What you bring to the team

• A well-rounded understanding of the malware and information security threat landscape.
• You should love this field and have a passion for learning The ability to accurately interpret the results of dynamic malware analysis from sandboxing environments
• Experience developing scripts in Python to automate the collection and processing of data for subsequent analysis
• Experience with one or more essential Python libraries such as NumPy, Pandas, Jupyter, or Matplotlib; or equivalent such as R
• The ability to install, setup, configure and maintain a Python-based Data Analysis environment
• The ability to develop analytical hypotheses based on your background; prove (or disprove) those hypotheses through your research; communicate that information to customers both verbally and in writing
• Outstanding communication skills and the ability to present complex technical topics to less technical audiences
• Creative ideas for discovering threats and the ability to manifest those ideas using data analysis techniques
• Deep curiosity and a drive to understand malware and the techniques used to deliver it.
• Self-directed and accountable.

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success.  We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you’ll enjoy your career with us!