It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.Corporate OverviewProofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.Protection Starts with People. Proofpoint.As a Proofpoint Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) researcher focused on China-based threats you will spend time searching through data looking for threats, analyzing them, and making that information meaningful to our customers.Leveraging Proofpoint data, information from trust groups, and other sources, you will be responsible for covering the threat landscape with a focus on APT in general and China-based APT in specific.As an APT specialist you’ll communicate your findings to various groups including customers, internal threat researchers and teams who create detections in our products. You’ll be a part of a team of dynamic and creative threat researchers focused on the threat landscape, finding threats, understanding then, and using that knowledge to improve our products and protect our customers. This role is responsible for creating and presenting customer-facing and internal deliverables about their work. Making APT landscape research visible and useful for our customers is a large part of this role.Your day-to-day Analyze malware and threat data from internal and external sources, both self-directed and in response to questions from customers, and activity on the changing landscape.Conduct dynamic and static malware analysis on samples obtained from our customer data or threat hunting activity in order to assist in creating custom detection signatures Identify, extract, and leverage intelligence from APT data Expand upon existing intelligence to build profiles of adversary groups with focus on China-based APT Piece together threat campaigns, threat actors, and nation-state organizationsCreate and present written deliverables to multiple audiences, both external and internal.Provide threat detection findings to detection teams as they create and deploy detections in our productsAnalyze threat campaigns, author customer-specific threat reports, and publish research results around specific verticals or geographic locations as they relate to China-based APT Maintain a list of current events, threats, and other information that our customers should be aware ofReport and disseminate information to our most important customers on threats that may affect them, such as emerging malware, security developments and insightful summaries of current events.Leverage our threat database of millions of malware samples and produce data and reports that protect our customersWork effectively as part of a remote team using chat, video chat and conference callsWhat you bring to the teamA well-rounded understanding of the malware and information security threat landscape. You should love this field and have a passion for learning.Strong knowledge of Cyber Threat Intelligence principles to include indicators of compromise (IOC) types, indicator pivoting and indicator attribution strengthDeep experience and expert knowledge tracking China-nexus state affiliated actorsThe ability to make a hypothesis based on your threat research, prove it using our data, and communicate that information to our customers or internal stakeholdersPresent complex technical topics to senior managers, our customers, and internallyCreative ideas around threat research and using big data to manifest themAbility to comfortably communicate directly with customers and the security community Experience with Network and Host malware detection Demonstrable understanding of internet threat landscapeExcellent interpersonal, organizational, writing, communications, and briefing skillsMotivation to dig through internal and open source data to find threat information and use it to provide value to customersDeep curiosity and a drive to understand advanced persistent threat on the China landscapeStrong analytical and problem-solving skillsWhy ProofpointProtecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpointIf you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!
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