Palo Alto Cortex XDR-SOC Analyst

Position: Palo Alto Cortex XDR/SOC Analyst

Location: Alameda, CA (Onsite)

Duration: 6+ Months (With possible extension)

Job Description:

• Bachelor s degree in related discipline and 10+ years of related experience; or Equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Proficiency with SOC tools and technologies such as SIEM (Splunk), EDR (Cortex), and IDS/IPS (e.g., Snort, Suricata).
• Extensive experience in Palo Alto Cortex XDR and a deep understanding and practical application of XQL queries is required.
• Extensive experience in a SOC environment, with a strong background in threat detection, incident response, and threat hunting.
• Experience in proactive threat hunting to identify and neutralize emerging threats using Cortex XDR.
• Ability to develop and refine correlation rules within Cortex XDR to detect complex attack patterns, leveraging the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Ability to configure and fine-tune Cortex XDR to maximize their effectiveness by integrating various log sources and data feeds to enhance visibility and detection.
• Experience with threat intelligence platforms and integrating threat intelligence feeds to security tools to enrich threat detection.
• Ability to work with various data sources to create high-fidelity alerting.
• Strong analytical skills to correlate events and make informed decisions based on data.
• Ability to analyze user behaviours and network traffic to detect suspicious activities.
• Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships with security vendors.
• Experience with Cloud APIs.
• Experience with any threat Intelligence platform like cortex XSOAR, Crowdstrik Adversary, ThreatConnect etc.
• Good to have experience with Cortex XSIAM.
• Experience or working knowledge of cloud, network, and application security.

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Position: Palo Alto Cortex XDR/SOC Analyst

Location: Alameda, CA (Onsite)

Duration: 6+ Months (With possible extension)

Job Description:

• Bachelor s degree in related discipline and 10+ years of related experience; or Equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Proficiency with SOC tools and technologies such as SIEM (Splunk), EDR (Cortex), and IDS/IPS (e.g., Snort, Suricata).
• Extensive experience in Palo Alto Cortex XDR and a deep understanding and practical application of XQL queries is required.
• Extensive experience in a SOC environment, with a strong background in threat detection, incident response, and threat hunting.
• Experience in proactive threat hunting to identify and neutralize emerging threats using Cortex XDR.
• Ability to develop and refine correlation rules within Cortex XDR to detect complex attack patterns, leveraging the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Ability to configure and fine-tune Cortex XDR to maximize their effectiveness by integrating various log sources and data feeds to enhance visibility and detection.
• Experience with threat intelligence platforms and integrating threat intelligence feeds to security tools to enrich threat detection.
• Ability to work with various data sources to create high-fidelity alerting.
• Strong analytical skills to correlate events and make informed decisions based on data.
• Ability to analyze user behaviours and network traffic to detect suspicious activities.
• Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships with security vendors.
• Experience with Cloud APIs.
• Experience with any threat Intelligence platform like cortex XSOAR, Crowdstrik Adversary, ThreatConnect etc.
• Good to have experience with Cortex XSIAM.
• Experience or working knowledge of cloud, network, and application security.

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.