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description: Proofpoint (Posted 19 Jan 22)
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# Threat Analyst

We’re looking for a highly intelligent, self-motivated person to join the team of talented individuals to combat with various threats that are coming through with emails. As a threat analyst, you will have direct impact to protect our customers from getting malicious emails by stopping unique or wide-spread threats. If you’re interested in combatting threats by analyzing email that is a number one threat vector, this is the role for you.\
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This role is a remote role for anywhere in Australia, Japan or Singapore.\
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**Your day-to-day**&#x20;

* Analyze emails and classify them as spam, phish, malware, impostor or legitimate for heuristic engine by updating spam definitions which may contain regular expression.
* Respond to attacks by monitoring traffic and creating signatures/rules to stop them from being delivered to customer environment.
* Communicate with customers by providing written responses to their inquiries through a ticketing system.
* Be on-call to respond to urgent issues and attacks.
* Provide feedback to reputation system to influence direction of emails.
* Develop, test and deploy rules for static detection for URLs and attachments.
* Work with feeds to identify threats and create rules for proactive measure.\


**What You Bring To The Team**\


* BSCS or equivalent, or equivalent technical experience.
* Minimum of 2 years of experience with email threats such as spam, phishing, malware and impostor.
* Knowledge of how email delivery mechanism works including SMTP protocols, DNS, MTA.
* Knowledge of email headers, body, attachments, mime-type.
* Understanding of social engineering, 419, BEC.
* Familiarity with Unix environments and command line tools for manipulating, extracting, and analyzing text files.
* Ability to identify suspicious characteristics of email, URLs, and attachments.
* Great analytical and problem solving skills.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills to respond to customers to help resolve issues.
* Sufficient data mining skills for text extraction.
* A hard-working, self-directed team player.
* Ability to work independently and remotely.
