Senior Staff Security Researcher

Job Title:

Senior Staff Security Researcher

About Trellix:

Trellix, the trusted CISO ally, is redefining the future of cybersecurity and soulful work. Our comprehensive, GenAI-powered platform helps organizations confronted by today s most advanced threats gain confidence in the protection and resilience of their operations. Along with an extensive partner ecosystem, we accelerate technology innovation through artificial intelligence, automation, and analytics to empower over 53,000 customers with responsibly architected security solutions.
We also recognize the importance of closing the 4-million-person cybersecurity talent gap. We aim to create a home for anyone seeking a meaningful future in cybersecurity and look for candidates across industries to join us in soulful work. More at https://www.trellix.com/ .

Role Overview:

Trellix Intrusion Prevention System (Trellix IPS) is a leading threat protection platform that offers multi layered protection leveraging its signature based and signatures less technologies against exploits, malware, Callbacks, Lateral Movements, APTs and so on across On Premise, Cloud and Hybrid environment. As an NDR offering, it extends detections leveraging Machine Learning models, supports investigations into post breach activities and offers response action for efficient SoC operations. The product is part of the Network Security and Cloud security portfolio of Trellix and has a broad customer base of Government, Large Enterprise and Medium Enterprise customers worldwide.

Trellix IPS has a global team of RD engineers engaged in software, hardware development as well as security research and the team has a significant presence in India-Bangalore.

Trellix is a USD 1.5 billion Cyber Security business with decades long heritage of products that protects its customers from financial, legal and reputation implications arising out of cyber threats from sophisticated cyber criminals and nation-state actors. You are being considered to join a global work force of 4000 plus innovators working tirelessly to secure the world.

- Develop cutting-edge IPS signatures that shield against emerging threats and Review signatures for other junior team members.
- Have sense of urgency for critical vulnerabilities and release it to customers.
- Analyze and reverse engineer cyber-attacks and new vulnerabilities (CVEs) and
effectively implement preventive measures to stay ahead of evolving threats.

- Align with Engineering stakeholders and identify Research topics for IPS roadmap, build POCs for them and mentor junior team members for various research topics.
- Identify areas of process improvement, prioritize them with senior leaders, look at new Attack Frameworks, like Empire, MSF.

- Drive Competitive Analysis strategy along with senior leaders to stay ahead of the competition.

- Publish technical blogs to spread awareness and help defenders with the
necessary resources to protect their organizations.
- Research various MITRE attack TTPs, replicate them in lab, build signatures and be represent IPS research team in MITRE evaluation process.
- Vulnerability RCA, reverse engineering and POC verification and signature development for MAPP program
- Capable of working with no supervision, represent IPS research team in various forums and come-up with new Research ideas.

Company Benefits and Perks:

We work hard to embrace diversity and inclusion and encourage everyone to bring their authentic selves to work every day. We offer a variety of social programs, flexible work hours and family-friendly benefits to all of our employees.

• Retirement Plans
• Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Support for Community Involvement

Were serious about our commitment to diversity which is why we prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other legally protected status.