Staff Security Researcher

Bitsight is a cyber risk management leader transforming how companies manage exposure, performance, and risk for themselves and their third parties. Companies rely on Bitsight to prioritize their cybersecurity investments, build greater trust within their ecosystem, and reduce their chances of financial loss.
Built on over a decade of technological innovation, its integrated solutions deliver value across enterprise security performance, digital supply chains, cyber insurance, and data analysis.

• We invented the cyber ratings industry in 2011
• Over 3000 customers trust Bitsight
• Over 750 teammates are dispersed throughout Boston, Raleigh, New York, Lisbon, Singapore, and remote

This position is part of our broader Data & Research team, and as a security researcher, you will focus on data analysis and research that shapes the industry’s discourse on cybersecurity and cyber risk best practices. Through crafting compelling narratives built upon data-driven research, you will elevate Bitsight’s brand and continue to build on its reputation as a thought leader in the cybersecurity space. In addition, you will collaborate with fellow internal and external researchers, and product and engineering groups to support new data sets and analytical capabilities. 

Objectives & Responsibilities

• Write and publish responsive content whose topics are sourced from the current cybersecurity and threat landscape, delivered through our blog and webinars.

• Develop and build engaging narratives through research, writing, and presentations in support of marketing activities, product development, and customer engagements to promote key findings and capabilities.

• Perform data analysis with the purpose of understanding new and existing ways to gain information about the cybersecurity risk profiles of companies and organizations relevant to further enable effective research of newsworthy cybersecurity events.

• Promote and present research through industry and cybersecurity conferences.

• Partner with product marketing, data science, vulnerability research, and malware research teams to determine viable research marketing strategies and initiatives.

• High attention to detail and ability to assure data quality by developing methods for data curation, cleaning, and modeling.

• Review and provide feedback on product and research content produced by other members of the data & research teams.

• Establish a strong understanding of how data records are collected and what they imply, becoming a subject matter expert in our observables.

• Be contextually aware of changes in first-party and third-party data feeds, and capable of suggesting enhancements to shape the data collection roadmap and partnerships. 

Skills

• Strong communication and analytical skills, including ability to identify and solve ambiguous problems, and present results clearly in …