SOC Analyst (Vadodara)

Job Description: - Security Monitoring & Alert Triage: - Continuously monitor security alerts generated by various security tools (SIEM, EDR, IDS/IPS, firewalls, etc.) for suspicious activities, anomalies, and potential security breaches. - Perform initial triage and analysis of security events, correlating data from multiple sources to determine the severity and legitimacy of alerts. - Prioritize alerts based on risk and impact, escalating critical incidents to higher-tier analysts or incident response teams as necessary. - Incident Detection & Response: - Investigate detected security incidents, including malware infections, phishing attempts, unauthorized access, and data exfiltration, to understand their scope, root cause, and impact. - Execute incident response procedures to contain, eradicate, and recover from security incidents effectively, minimizing downtime and data loss. - Document all incident details, analysis, actions taken, and lessons learned for future reference and compliance. - Threat Analysis & Intelligence: - Stay up-to-date with the latest cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, attack techniques (TTPs), and threat intelligence. - Analyze threat intelligence to identify potential risks to the organization and proactively develop detection rules and countermeasures. - Contribute to threat hunting activities to proactively identify stealthy threats that may evade existing security controls. - Security Tool Management & Optimization: - Operate and maintain various security tools and technologies, ensuring their optimal configuration and performance. - Assist in tuning security tools to reduce false positives and improve the accuracy of threat detection. - Collaborate with security engineers to deploy and integrate recent security solutions. - Vulnerability Management & Compliance (especially for Tier 2/Senior): - Assist in vulnerability assessments and penetration testing activities to identify weaknesses in systems and applications .