What you can expect

The Global Information Security (GIS) team is responsible for protecting bank information systems, confidential and proprietary data, and customer information. The Cyber Security Defence (CSD) team aims to protect the bank by having an end-to-end view and influence over all security controls at the Bank. The CSD Malware Prevention team specifically aims to reduce risk across the Bank of America by using leveraging multiple methods of malicious code detection and containment activities for the security, safeguarding, continuity and confidentiality of information at Bank of America. The Malware Prevention Analyst role undertakes incident response activities with a primary focus on malware analysis.

What you will do

• Analyse various malware alerts and corresponding events
• Respond to actions by threat actors and disrupt their attempted actions
• Perform static and dynamic forensic analysis of malware
• Perform disk based and memory based analysis of systems
• Execute and improve relevant risk management strategies

• Strong direct experience of analysing malware
• Must have a solid understanding of dynamic/static analysis of malware
• Background in network traffic analysis related to malware
• Experience in encryption/obfuscation and how to reverse engineer (desirable)
• GCIH, GREM, GCFA or CISSP desirable
• At least 3+ years of direct experience analysing malware (or show equivalent competency)
• Able to work independently on tasks
• Able to work well within a team environment
• Can create innovative ways to track progression of malware families, infrastructure and campaigns conducted by various threat actors
• Knowledge of networking protocols:  TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPs, FTP, IRC etc.
• Ability to create scripts and other forms of automation
• Excellent communication skills, able to adapt a message to various audiences