Vulnerability Assessments Analyst - Red Team, AVP (C12)

The Role:

The Vulnerability Assessments Analyst - Red Team, AVP will participate in the Adversary Emulation program by emulating cyber and criminal threat actors targeting Citi. The candidate will conduct Intelligence-led Red Team Testing and Penetration Testing targeting people, process, and technology. The candidate may also conduct regulatory driven Red Team Testing. To be successful in this role, the ideal candidate will have some experience in the following:

Responsibilities

• Support Citi’s Red, Blue, and Purple Teams during the execution of offensive security assessment operations

• Participate in advanced exploitation operations against a large global enterprise, including Red and Purple Team operations

• Identify opportunities to automate and standardize information security controls and for the supported groups

• Resolve any vulnerabilities or issues detected in an application or infrastructure

• Analyze source code to mitigate identified weaknesses and vulnerabilities within the system

• Review and validate automated testing results and prioritize actions that resolve issues based on overall risk

• Scan and analyze applications with automated tools, and perform manual testing if necessary

• Reduce risk by analyzing the root cause of issues, their impact, and required corrective actions

• Assist the development and delivery of secure solutions by coordinating with business and technical contacts

• Assist in assessing risk when making business decisions

• Demonstrate particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency

Qualifications

2+ years’ experience or equivalent knowledge and exposure are required with most of the following:

• Assisting in attack surface management

• Leveraging the MITRE ATT&CK Framework

• Helping to conduct Adversary Emulations or Assumed Breach Exercises

• Familiarity with industry Adversary Emulation Frameworks like PTES, CBEST, iCAST, GFMA

• Knowledge of tools and processes used to expose known and undocumented vulnerabilities in various different systems

• Assisting with Purple Team Testing

• Participation in Cyber Tiger Team operations

• Helping with Vulnerability Assessments and Penetration Testing (application and/or infrastructure) and articulating security issues to technical and non-technical audience

• Identifying, researching, validating, and exploiting various different, known, and unknown security vulnerabilities on the server and client side

• Red Team testing tools: Cobalt Strike, Red Team Toolkit, etc.

• Vulnerability Assessment tools: Nessus, Qualys, etc.

• Exploitation frameworks: Metasploit, CANVAS, Core Impact

• Social Engineering campaigns: email phishing, phone calls, SET

• An understanding of OSI model

• Security devices: Firewalls, VPN, AAA systems

• OS Security: Unix/Linux, Windows, OSX

• Understanding of common protocols: HTTP, LDAP, SMTP, DNS

• Web application infrastructure: Application Servers, Web Servers, Databases

• Web development and programming languages: Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, .Net

• Reporting information security vulnerabilities to the business

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

• Industry-accredited security certifications highly preferred but not required (e.g. PNPT, OSCP, OSCE, GXPN, GPEN, GCIH, GWAPT, GCFA, or CISSP)

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.