Overview
The ConEd Red Team focuses on performing real-world attacks and adversarial simulation to protect some of the nation's most critical infrastructure by proactively identifying attack chains that lead to sensitive information or potential service disruption. Work activities range from traditional penetration testing to complex, custom scenarios with the intent of bypassing security controls, avoiding detection, and obtaining sensitive levels of access or information. This is a new initiative where all team members are expected to assist with maturing the program and developing creative attack scenarios. ConEd's cloud environments, publicly available services, internal IT and OT infrastructure, and customer-facing and internal applications are all within scope. Red Team members will monitor trends, scenarios, and the changing threat landscape and will coordinate with the broader cyber security and infrastructure teams to take appropriate actions on both immediate needs and regularly scheduled cadences. The team also has related responsibilities to provide guidance and direction to its blue team counterparts and bolster the overall security posture and capabilities of the organization's cyber security program.
Responsibilities
Core Responsibilities
- Act as a senior technical resource, mentor team members, and contribute to the development of the ConEd Red Team Program.
- With oversight from management and the lead analyst, competently perform a variety of penetration testing, red team, and social engineering assessment activities that are of comparable sophistication to real-world adversarial attacks.
- Develop assessment strategies with key stakeholders.
- Create accurate documentation that provides concise explanations and conveys informative descriptions of findings, including technical explanations/walkthroughs, root causes, impact, and remediation/mitigation strategies.
- Continuously learn, improve, and hone your skills to deliver advanced assessments.
- Develop scripts and tools to automate tedious processes and increase efficiency.
- Stay abreast of TTPs, global security incidents, industry trends, advisories, publications, research, talks, and other relevant developments
- Effectively communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Coordinate with business owners to remediate/mitigate findings and verify changes are successful.
- Represent the department in the company and industry with research, talks, publications, articles, posts, training, etc.
- Assist with developing internal methodologies and process improvement for the team, including mentoring and transferring knowledge across team members.
- Collaborate with blue teams to bolster detection and response capabilities.
Qualifications
Required Education/Experience
- Master's Degree and Minimum of five (2) years in information security, with a minimum of one (1) years in a red team or penetration testing role. Utility industry experience preferred. or
- Bachelor's Degree and Minimum of five (3) years in information security, with a minimum of one (1) years in a red team or penetration testing role. Utility industry experience preferred. or
- Associate's Degree and Minimum of five (5) years in information security, with a minimum of one (1) years in a red team or penetration testing role. Utility industry experience preferred. or
- High School Diploma/GED and Minimum of five (7) years in information security, with a minimum of one (1) years in a red team or penetration testing role. Utility industry experience preferred.
Preferred Education/Experience
- Master's Degree and Minimum of five (2) years in information security, with a minimum of one (1) years in a red team or penetration testing role. Utility industry experience preferred.
Relevant Work Experience
- Perform OSINT/Reconnaissance to identify publicly damaging information, misconfigurations, and interesting targets Required
Skills And Abilities
- Develops and delivers effective presentations
Licenses And Certfications
- Driver's License
- Other: OSWP, OSCP, OSCE, OSEP, OSWE, OSED, OSEE, GPEN, GCIH, GPXN, GWAPT, GMOB, GAWN, GCPN, and/or similar certifications are preferred Preferred
Physical Demands
- Ability to push, pull, and lift up to 25 pounds
- Sit or stand to use a keyboard, mouse, and computer for the duration of the workday
Additional Physical Demands
- Must be able to respond to Company emergencies by performing a System Emergency Assignment to restore service to our customers.
- Must be able and willing to travel within Company service territory, approximately quarterly, but also as-needed.
