Principal Windows Threat & Detection Security Researcher (Cortex)

We are looking for a highly technical individual to join the Threat and Detection team in our Tel-Aviv R&D center.

The team is dedicated to PANW Cortex Security & Security Assurance Features on multiple Operating systems including but not limited to Windows and Linux, simulating and developing POCs for known threats and offensive tools to determine New features security Coverage & Detection quality across the Kill Chain /MITRE ATT&CK Framework and real threats.

In this role, you will identify unique ways to solve problems by creating custom ATTACK Infrastructure, tooling, and advancing in-house Security capabilities. We are looking for someone who can bring new ideas and perspectives to Simulate , Code and react to new threats, Malware, and Exploits. The position will expand our XDR, Malware, and Exploit sensors and capabilities, that utilize heuristics and ML technologies.

More information about Cortex XDR can be found here .

Your Impact

Learn new security features, technologies, and platforms in a relatively short amount of time
Gain hands-on experience with scalable, extensible, and real-time detection/prevention systems
Learn to analyze and identify real-world vulnerabilities, Malware, and exploits
Learn to leverage data-driven approaches to identify threats and mitigations automatically
Reproduce and analyze security issues, that either came from the field or have been found during the Security validation cycle
Enrich our Security automation Coverage and infrastructure to protect against known and unknown threats
Partner with Research and Low-Level engineering groups to identify security issues and gaps
Scale-out existing security tooling and infrastructure for both on-prem and Cloud workloads
Research and develop new tools and capabilities that emulate real-world adversary behavior.
Define and lead adversary emulation engagements to show cyber defensive teams how to respond to real-world adversaries