Job Description

Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader, helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information across enterprises, governments, and consumers.

Fueled by decades of security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, Trend harnesses AI to protect organizations and individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints.

The Trend Vision One™ enterprise cybersecurity platform accelerates proactive security outcomes by predicting and preventing threats across the entire digital estate and environments like AWS, Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA.

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The Incident Response Analyst is a senior position that supports TrendAI efforts to provide incident response for TrendAI and its customers. This role blends technical knowledge and experience performing incident response, network monitoring, and performs related malware analysis.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Investigate, triage, and respond to security incidents for TrendAI customers across endpoints, networks, and cloud environments, including leading efforts related to containment, eradication, and forensic analysis.

• Conduct thorough root cause analysis and document findings in clear, actionable reports that support both technical teams and stakeholders.

• Perform proactive threat hunting activities to identify adversary behavior that may have evaded existing detection mechanisms.

• Communicate timely and effectively with internal teams and customers.

• Provide timely, actionable updates to customers or internal stakeholders.

• Partner with detection engineering and security operations teams to improve visibility.

Required Qualifications

• 2–3+ years of experience in incident response, forensic analysis, and security operations.

• Strong English communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to clearly convey technical findings.

• Strong understanding of operating systems (Windows, Linux, macOS) and enterprise environments.

• Familiarity with threat intelligence frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.

• Availability for occasional on-call support and after-hours incident response.

• Willingness to travel as needed to support engagements or customers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Industry certifications such as GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

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