Malware Analyst

Your Team

As part of our focus to provide the best real-time threat prevention service to our customers, our team works on analyzing current cyber security threats and developing protections within Check Point Threat Prevention products. Precise intelligence regarding current activity is crucial in order to provide excellent protection from broadly distributed threats, as well as targeted attacks.

Your Impact & Responsibilities

Analyze new threats, and provide real-time protection against them within Check Point threat prevention products:

• Analyze cyber activity worldwide, based on Check Point’s thousands of sensors, to identify current campaigns and potential detection gaps
• Monitor open sources (OSINT), including security blogs and publications, and report on trends in the threat landscape
• Provide technical analyses of suspicious and malicious files and communications
• Address alerts and requests coming from internal field representatives and customers regarding threat coverage, and provide immediate mitigation for active attacks
• Develop tools and automated processes for internal use, to improve coverage, speed, and efficiency of the various analytes

Your Knowledge & Skills

• B.Sc. in Computer Engineering / Computer Science.
• Strong understanding of malware analysis.
• Wide knowledge of former in-the-wild attacks and security trends.
• 2+ years of experience in analyzing cyber-attacks - from top to bottom.
• Ability to translate your findings into actionable detection signature recommendations.
• Knowledge of common hacking tools and techniques.
• Knowledge of advanced threat-hunting methodologies.
• Experience in writing technical blog posts and technical analysis reports.
• Experience in reverse engineering malware both dynamic and static - advantage
• Fluent English is required.