Qualys

Senior Security Research Engineer

Qualys  •  Pune, IN (Onsite)  •  4 months ago
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Job Description

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!

Responsibilities

  • Research, analyze, and assess attack surface and vulnerabilitydata

  • Develop tailored and actionable mitigation strategies and plans to address vulnerabilityrisk

  • Work with new and emerging vulnerability data toidentifypotential attack paths in critical systems.

  • Document, developand present mitigation strategiesinweb applications,databases,standalone applications, etc.

  • Analyze the root cause of vulnerabilities and support the prioritization of mitigations based on risk and return on mitigation

  • Provide mitigation strategies that prioritize risk against level of effort for multiple systems ororganizations

  • Catalog mitigation advice, challenges, and trends and patterns

  • Patchdiffing andreverse engineeringwith tools such asGhidra, IDA, etc.

  • Provide subject matterexpertiseon tailored mitigations to resolve and remediate vulnerabilities on targetedtechnologies

  • Work in fast-pacedstartuplikeenvironmentwith shifting priorities to handle andmaintainbalance with multiple stakeholders.

  • Conduct research to assess and create software patches and configuration changes to be applied to varied software,middlewareandhardware

  • Provide assessment including security, system, and business impact ofvulnerabilities

  • Must be able to think ahead to avoid business outages based on the labresults

  • Analyze vulnerability data and support management of identified vulnerabilities, including tracking, remediation, andreporting

Desired Skills

  • Excellent understanding of network,systemand application security

  • Experience with IDA Pro,Ghidra, or similar binary analysis tool

  • Knowledge of various vulnerability scanning solutions is aplus

  • Excellent written and verbal communication

  • Graduate with preferable 4 years degree or at least 3-year degree with computer science and information technology background

  • Secure architecture designs and use of detection/protection mechanisms (e.g., firewalls, IDS/IPS, full-packet capture technologies) to mitigaterisk

  • A solid understanding of industry best practices for Patch Management

  • Specific demonstrated experience mapping business processes and comparing those processes to industry bestpractices

  • Background around using or understanding of security tools would beplus

  • Solid understanding of the security implications of a patch on web applications, Windows, Linux, Mac OS operating systems

  • Thorough testing of patches in a non-production environment

  • Have working knowledge of basic operation systems commands and tooling - Windows, Linux, Mac OS

  • Should havevery goodcommunication and articulationskills

  • Ability and ready to learnnew technologyand should be a good teamplayer

What you get to do

Work within Threat Research, detection and response teams and analysts to define the priority, design the solution, and contribute to build framework for patchingvulnerabilities

Qualys

About Qualys

Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS) is a leading provider of disruptive cloud-based security, compliance and IT solutions with more than 10,000 subscription customers worldwide, including a majority of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. Qualys helps organizations streamline and automate their security and compliance solutions onto a single platform for greater agility, better business outcomes, and substantial cost savings.

The Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform leverages a single agent to continuously deliver critical security intelligence while enabling enterprises to automate the full spectrum of vulnerability detection, compliance, and protection for IT systems, workloads and web applications across on premises, endpoints, servers, public and private clouds, containers, and mobile devices.

Founded in 1999 as one of the first SaaS security companies, Qualys has strategic partnerships and seamlessly integrates its vulnerability management capabilities into security offerings from cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services, the Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, along with a number of leading managed service providers and global consulting organizations. For more information, please visit http://www.qualys.com.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Foster City, CA
Year Founded
1999
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