Consulting Director, Offensive Security, Proactive Services (Unit 42)- Remote
Santa Clara, California, United States
Company Description
Company Description
At Palo Alto NetworksÂŽ, everything starts and ends with our mission: Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These arenât easy goals to accomplish â but weâre not here for easy. Weâre here for better. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and weâre looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.
Weâre changing the nature of work. Palo Alto Networks is evolving to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, weâve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.
Job Description
Your Career
The Consulting Director, Offensive Security will lead a team focused on assessing and challenging the security posture of Unit 42's clients across a wide array of industries, geographies, and organizational structures. They will be the clientâs advocate for cybersecurity risk management and will provide strategic and technical leadership in this area. Â
Your Impact
- Assist in the development of internal infrastructure design for research, development, and testing focused on offensive security
- Conducts periodic scans of networks to find and detect vulnerabilities
- Performs client penetration testing to find any vulnerabilities or weaknesses that might be exploited by a malicious party, using open-source, custom, and commercial testing tools
- Ability to assist in scoping engagements by clearly articulating various penetration approaches and methodologies to audiences ranging from highly technical to executive personnel
- Report generation that clearly communicates testing and assessment details, results, and remediation recommendations to clients
- Develop scripts, tools, and methodologies to automate and streamline internal processes and engagements
- Conducts IT application testing, cybersecurity tool and systems analysis, system and network administration, and systems engineering support for the sustainment of information technology systems (mobile application testing, penetration testing, application, security, and hardware testing)
- Conduct threat hunting and/or compromise assessment engagements to identify active or dormant indicators of compromise (IoCs) using Crypsis and Palo Alto Networksâ threat hunting tools (and/or client owned hunting instrumentation where âŚ
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- Conduct cyber risk assessments
- Cyber risk assessments
- Incident response
- Infrastructure design
- Penetration Testing
- Report Generation
- Technical expertise
- Threat hunting
- Travel as needed
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