Information Security Specialist

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Base pay range

CA$60.00/hr - CA$65.00/hr

Ascend Learning, LLC ( is a global leader providing online education, assessment, remediation, certification, and e-learning solutions for the post-secondary academic market specifically serving the nursing, allied health, sports medicine, public safety, and the financial services industries. Ascend employs more than 900 employees in 35 states. Ascend's portfolio companies consist of Jones and Bartlett Learning, ATI Nursing Education, the National Healthcare Association, ExamFX, the National Academy of Sports Medicine, Boston Reed, Advanced Informatics, and ClickSafety.

Required skills:

• Mimecast tool expert, 3 years+ experience administering Mimecast environment with 100s of policies, in-depth understanding of Mimecast Targeted Threat Protection (TTP) policy configurations, and email analysis.
• Cofense Triage & Vision, 3 years+ experience building automated playbooks and workflows, in-depth understanding of threat analysis and investigation, including forensic analysis, root cause identification, and response recommendations.
• Proficient in email header analysis for enhancing email security, with expertise in identifying and mitigating threats through detailed examination of header information. Skilled in detecting anomalies, tracing email origins, and understanding routing paths to prevent phishing and spoofing attacks.
• Strong experience & skills performing incident triage and investigating attacks, malware, and suspicious activity at a process, command, and code-level.
• Strong Windows OS server infrastructure knowledge
• Technology experience 10+ years, 6+ years of information security
• Excellent English communication skills (written, verbal, and comprehension)
• Confident, energetic, driver, leader mentality
• Extremely detail-oriented
• Passionate about information security
• Good Judgement
• Proactivity
• Advanced problem solver

Experience

• Working in a SOC or providing incident support for a security team
• Leading multi-team incident investigations
• Experience identifying and mitigating web application attacks, C2 beaconing, and/or DPL/Data Exfil.
• Log/protocol analysis, writing RegEx, and experience efficiently analyzing and sifting through thousands of logs to quickly pinpoint/identify suspicious activity.
• Experience with searches in a SIEM (like QRadar or Splunk) and/or an EDR (like Carbon Black, CrowdStrike Falcon).
• Threat hunting in core security tools

Tool Experience

• Mimecast experience and expert skills are mandatory.
• Cofense Triage & Vision are strongly preferred.
• Regex is required.
• Experience administering other email security tools is a plus (O365, Proofpoint, Checkpoint Harmony).

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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