Cybersecurity Threat Researcher (Hybrid)

The role

The Cybersecurity Threat Researcher works in the KnowBe4 Threat Research Lab. This person will deploy and configure security products such as endpoint, email, web and network protection.

What you will do

• Analysing trends and patterns in large data-sets to establish threat trends.
• Investigate phishing emails and perform Malware Analysis.
• Use Threat Actor Tools and techniques.
• Share knowledge with team members and external stakeholders.
• Communicate threat knowledge in a customer facing environment.
• Assist and enable various departments with Threat Intelligence.
• Triage, investigate, and respond to alerts from the Knowbe4 email platform.
• Conduct independent research projects for external-facing Threat Labs content like blogs.

Required qualifications

• BS or equivalent plus 3 years experience
• MS or equivalent plus 1 year experience
• Well versed with IOCs, reverse engineering and threat campaign tracking
• Experience in malicious URL and phishing Email analysis
• Experience in customer-facing environments
• Experience with triaging complex customer queries
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Python automation
• Experience with databases (SQL or MQL)

Benefits

• Company-wide bonuses based on monthly sales targets
• Employee referral bonuses
• Adoption assistance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Certification reimbursement
• Certification completion bonuses

Before you apply

• An applicant assessment and background check may be part of your hiring procedure.

About the company

KnowBe4 is the pioneer of digital workforce security, securing both AI agents and humans. The company provides attack simulation and training, collaboration security, and agent security.