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Job Summary:
Accenture Federal Services is committed to enhancing the safety and security of the US federal government. They are seeking a skilled Cyber Forensic Specialist to support their Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) team, focusing on cybersecurity incident investigations, forensic analysis, and compliance with legal requirements.
Responsibilities:
• Collaborate with the Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT) to investigate and respond to cybersecurity incidents, including malware infections, unauthorized access, data breaches, and advanced persistent threats (APTs).
• Perform digital forensic analysis on devices such as laptops, desktops, servers, mobile devices, and network logs to identify the root cause and scope of incidents.
• Provide recommendations on containment, remediation, and recovery activities.
• Conduct internal investigations in collaboration with HR, Legal, and Insider Threat teams related to: Potential risks to organizational assets and operations.
• Inquiries requiring the collection and analysis of electronic evidence.
• Other internal matters involving digital investigations.
• Analyze electronic communications, file systems, and digital artifacts to uncover evidence.
• Prepare detailed, well-documented reports and findings to support decision-making and potential actions.
• Partner with the Legal team to ensure the timely and accurate implementation of litigation holds, including identifying, preserving, and collecting electronically stored information (ESI).
• Perform eDiscovery-related data captures, including on-premises and cloud-based systems, in alignment with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain thorough documentation of all eDiscovery activities for legal proceedings and audits.
• Serve as the central point for evidence intake, ensuring proper chain of custody and documentation for all collected digital evidence.
• Maintain and enforce evidence management protocols, including secure storage, tagging, and tracking for litigation holds and legal proceedings.
• Ensure compliance with data retention and destruction policies.
• Leverage forensic tools (e.g., EnCase, FTK, X-Ways, Magnet Axiom) to analyze and process evidence efficiently.
• Continuously improve and document forensic methodologies, workflows, and playbooks.
• Stay up to date with emerging forensic techniques, tools, and industry best practices.
• Provide guidance and training to the CIRT and other internal teams on forensic processes and evidence handling.
• Collaborate with outside counsel or external third-party forensic services, when required.
Qualifications:
Required:
• US Citizenship required.
• 3-5 years of experience in information security, or other equivalent combination of education or equivalent work experience.
• 3 + years of experience with performing digital forensics on physical and cloud systems.
• 2+ years of experience performing event and log analysis including one or more of the following: Anti-Virus, Intrusion Detection Systems, Firewalls, Active Directory, Web Proxies, Data loss prevention tools and other security tools found in large enterprise network environments; along with experience working with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions.
• 1+ years of experience investigating, containing, eradicating, and preventing current and future compromises i.e., implementing or requesting an IP/domain/URL block, file hash block, email purge, software removal, device reimage, etc.
• 1+ years of experience with collecting, processing, reviewing, and producing Electronically Stored Information (ESI) to legal teams.
• Work independently to deliver prompt solutions without direct supervision.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, attention to detail, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience presenting complex technical information to decision makers and leading them through the decision-making process.
• Experience with digital forensic imaging (FTK, Cellebrite, Paladin, etc.) and analysis tools (EnCase, Autopsy, Nuix, etc.)
• Experience with evidence preservation and chain of custody.
• Experience with TCP/IP, common application layer protocols, and packet analysis of the same.
• Experience performing static and dynamic malware analysis.
• Experience with indicators of attack and compromise.
• Experience with basic data parsing and analysis tools, i.e., Excel, grep, sed, awk, regex, etc.
• Familiarity with various network and host-based security applications and tools, such as network and host assessment/scanning tools, network and host-based intrusion detection systems, and other security software packages.
• Familiarity with detection design & engineering concepts to tune detections.
• Familiarity with Windows / Linux architecture and endpoint analysis of the same.
• Familiarity with the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) for ESI discovery, preservation, and production.
Preferred:
• DFIR related certifications including but not limited to: SANS (GCED, GCLD, GCIH, GCFE, GCFA, GREM), CFCE, EnCE.
• Knowledge of scripting languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell) to automate forensic tasks.
• Experience with eDiscovery toolsets such as: Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Standard/Premium) and Nuix.
Company:
Accenture Federal Services is a leading US federal services company and subsidiary of Accenture. Founded in 1989, the company is headquartered in Arlington, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.