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Security Associate

Pittsburgh, PA
Full-time
Onsite
$45K/yr - $98K/yr
Entry Level
PNC is a financial services company that values its employees as its greatest asset. The Security Associate role involves evaluating and mitigating security alerts, assisting with security technologies, and conducting security assessments to enhance the organization's security posture.
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Responsibilities

  • Evaluate, respond, and mitigate alerts that originate from the SIEM and the Cyber security product suite, e.g. NGFWs, IDS/IPS, Anti-virus, Web Application Firewalls, NAC Solution, EDR, etc
  • Demonstrate use and understanding of security technologies such as Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) & Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
  • Assist with tuning the SIEM events to reduce the false positives
  • Extract the IOCs and behavioral characteristics of malicious samples and implement the proper mitigation (Sandboxing)
  • Demonstrate the ability to scope an event to ensure the proper remediation steps
  • Ability to demonstrate subject matter expertise on the one or more functions performed by the SOC
  • Perform operational support for the institution as a representative of the security organization
  • Participates in activities, processes, and utilizes tools needed to improve overall security posture of the organization
  • Applies security concepts, reviews information, executes defined tasks, analyzes requirements, reviews logs, and creates documentation
  • Performs investigation and data loss prevention, data manipulation, and coordination of activities
  • Performs actions to address or mitigate risks and vulnerabilities
  • Reviews and defines controls
  • Advises on less complex security procedures and products for clients, security administrators and network operations
  • Participates in enforcement of control security risks and threats
  • Conducts security assessments and other information security routines consistently, with supervision

Qualification

Required

  • Evaluate, respond, and mitigate alerts that originate from the SIEM and the Cyber security product suite, e.g. NGFWs, IDS/IPS, Anti-virus, Web Application Firewalls, NAC Solution, EDR, etc
  • Demonstrate use and understanding of security technologies such as Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) & Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
  • Assist with tuning the SIEM events to reduce the false positives
  • Extract the IOCs and behavioral characteristics of malicious samples and implement the proper mitigation (Sandboxing)
  • Demonstrate the ability to scope an event to ensure the proper remediation steps
  • Ability to demonstrate subject matter expertise on the one or more functions performed by the SOC
  • Perform operational support for the institution as a representative of the security organization
  • Participates in activities, processes, and utilizes tools needed to improve overall security posture of the organization
  • Applies security concepts, reviews information, executes defined tasks, analyzes requirements, reviews logs, and creates documentation
  • Performs investigation and data loss prevention, data manipulation, and coordination of activities
  • Performs actions to address or mitigate risks and vulnerabilities
  • Reviews and defines controls
  • Advises on less complex security procedures and products for clients, security administrators and network operations
  • Participates in enforcement of control security risks and threats
  • Conducts security assessments and other information security routines consistently, with supervision
  • Roles at this level typically require a university / college degree, with 2+ years of relevant professional experience
  • In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education, job specific certification(s), and experience (including military service) may be considered
  • Bachelors

Preferred

  • Access Control (AC)
  • Building Architecture
  • Customer Solutions
  • Disaster Recovery Planning
  • Information Security
  • Network Security
  • Physical Security
  • Risk Assessments
  • Security Technologies
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Effective Communications
  • Information Assurance
  • Information Security Management
  • Information Security Technologies
  • IT Environment
  • IT Standards, Procedures & Policies
  • IT Systems Management
  • Problem Solving
  • Software Security Assurance

Benefits

  • Medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature)
  • Dental and vision options
  • Employee and spouse/child life insurance
  • Short and long-term disability protection
  • 401(k) with PNC match
  • Pension and stock purchase plans
  • Dependent care reimbursement account
  • Back-up child/elder care
  • Adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement
  • Educational assistance, including select programs fully paid
  • A robust wellness program with financial incentives
  • Maternity and/or parental leave
  • Up to 11 paid holidays each year
  • 9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law
  • Between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level and years of service
PNC is a financial service company providing bank deposits products and services to its community.
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PNC is a financial service company providing bank deposits products and services to its community.
Glassdoor
3.6
Founded in 1845
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
10001+ employees
http://www.pnc.com