Cybersecurity Threat Researcher (Position located in Bangalore, India)

KnowBe4 empowers the modern workforce to make smarter security decisions every day. Trusted by more than 70,000 organizations worldwide, KnowBe4 is the pioneer of digital workforce security, securing both AI agents and humans. The KnowBe4 Platform provides attack simulation and training, collaboration security, and agent security powered by AIDA (Artificial Intelligence Defense Agents) and a proprietary Risk Score. The platform leverages 15-years of behavioral data to combat advanced threats including social engineering, prompt injection, and shadow AI. By securing humans and agents, KnowBe4 leads the industry in workforce trust and defense.

Please submit your resume in English.

The Cybersecurity Threat Researcher works in the KnowBe4 Threat Research Lab, and is responsible for deploying and configuring various security products and solutions such as endpoint, email, web and network protection.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy, configure, maintain various cybersecurity products in a lab environment. This includes endpoint, web, email and network protection products
• Maintains product inventory such as licenses, updates and multiple versions of the same
• Recommend solutions for security product deployment and configurations
• Analysis of PHISHING emails.
• Analysis of malicious URLs and PHISHING URLs
• Tracking and identifying new and existing PHISHING campaigns
• Trend identification for latest phishing emails.

Requirements:

• BS or equivalent plus 3 years experience
• MS or equivalent plus 1 year experience
• Well versed with IOCs, reverse engineering and threat campaign tracking
• Experience in malicious URL and phishing Email analysis
• Script enabled for scripting automations for handling huge volumes of threat artifacts like files, emails, URLs etc
• Email analysis skills to determine PHISHING, Clean and Spam emails
• Ability to identify PHISHING email campaigns
• Ability to work with high volume of emails for accurate email classification
• Expertise in static and dynamic analysis of URLs and Files
• Expertise in URL analysis for identification of PHISHING and scam URLs
• Well versed with creating Yara rules for email grouping and clustering
• Ability to automate daily email classification through automation and scripting
• Keep up to date with emerging threats & security technologies
• Ability to think analytically & work collaboratively

Our Fantastic Benefits

Note: An applicant assessment and background check may be part of your hiring procedure.

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