高级威胁行为研究员（罗马尼亚）
Senior Threat Behavior Researcher (Romania)
关于公司
Sophos 是网络安全领域的领导者，通过人工智能驱动的平台和专家服务，保护全球 600,000 家组织。Sophos 会根据组织在安全成熟度上的不同阶段提供支持，并与之共同成长以应对网络攻击。其解决方案结合机器学习、自动化和实时威胁情报，以及 Sophos X-Ops 的一线人类专业知识，提供先进的 24/7 威胁监控、检测和响应。
Sophos 提供行业领先的托管检测与响应（MDR）服务，以及全面的网络安全技术组合——包括端点、网络、电子邮件和云安全，扩展检测与响应（XDR）、身份威胁检测与响应（ITDR）和下一代 SIEM。结合专家咨询服务，这些能力帮助组织主动降低风险并加快响应速度，具备必要的可见性和可扩展性，以应对不断演变的威胁。
Sophos 通过全球合作伙伴生态系统进行市场推广，包括管理服务提供商（MSPs）、管理安全服务提供商（MSSPs）、经销商和分销商、市场集成以及网络安全风险合作伙伴，使组织在保障业务时能够灵活选择值得信赖的关系。Sophos 总部位于英国牛津。更多信息请访问 www.sophos.com。
职位概述
恶意软件研究员？红队/蓝队/紫队成员？我们在 Sophos 实验室有一个绝佳的机会，招聘一名威胁研究员加入我们全球行为防护工程师团队，负责追踪、研究，并为客户的环境中的可疑活动提供实时保护。我们这支由技能娴熟的安全专家组成的团队，将他们对检测和破坏网络攻击的热情与开发能够穿透现代计算环境中噪音的防护规则的能力相结合，从而识别出攻击者的非法活动。你有内在动力去理解恶意软件和黑客攻击的核心逻辑，发现并预测攻击者可能修改其技术的新方式，并从开发出能抵御规避行为的稳健防护逻辑中获得满足感。你将负责编写能够阻止所有类型 TTP（即使尚未存在 Mitre 技术）的的行为防护规则。这是 Sophos 下一代方法的基础。最重要的是——你喜欢创造性地思考；将你的深厚知识与经验结合起来，推动创新解决方案。
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About Us
Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.
Sophos offers industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) alongside a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity technologies — including endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and next-gen SIEM. Together with expert advisory services, these capabilities help organizations proactively reduce risk and respond faster, with the visibility and scalability needed to stay ahead of evolving threats.
Sophos goes to market with a global partner ecosystem, including Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), resellers and distributors, marketplace integrations, and cyber risk partners, giving organizations the flexibility to choose trusted relationships when securing their business. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.
Role Summary
Malware Researcher? Red/Blue/Purple team member? We have a fantastic opportunity here at Sophos Labs for a Threat Researcher role to join our global team of Behavioral Protection engineers, to hunt, to research, and to add real-time protection for suspicious activity across our customer environments. Our team of skilled security experts combine their passion to detect & disrupt cyber-attacks with their capability to develop protection rules that can cut through the noise in modern computing environments to tease out attacker’s nefarious activities. You are intrinsically motivated to understand the core logic behind malware and hacking attacks, to find & predict new ways attackers will modify their techniques and take great satisfaction in developing robust protection logic that is immune to evasive actions. You will be responsible for writing behavioral protection rules that are able to block malicious activities across all types of TTP (even if a Mitre Technique doesn’t exist yet). This is the foundation of Sophos next-gen approach. Above all - you enjoy thinking creatively; combining your deep technical knowledge, your tenacity for innovation, and your can-do attitude to solve complex and challenging problems on daily basis. Additionally, you will also be supporting our remediation effort to remove artifacts left behind, by writing cleanup rules, and supporting our Sandbox development, such as (but not limited to) creating signatures, identifying evasion techniques that prevent the sandbox from running the threat smoothly.
Ready to Join Us?
At Sophos, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives to fuel innovation. Research shows that candidates sometimes hesitate to apply if they don't check every box in a job description. We challenge that notion. Your unique experiences and skills might be exactly what we need to enhance our team. Don't let a checklist hold you back – we encourage you to apply.
What's Great About Sophos?
· Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. While we are a remote first organization, applicants must have legal authorization to work in the jurisdiction where the position is posted, without requiring employer sponsorship.
· Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit
· Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy
· Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities
· Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint
· Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp
· Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge
· Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing
Our Commitment To You
We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.
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What You Will Do
- Conduct in-depth behavioral analysis of Windows threats.
- Develop Behavioral rules for various threat behaviors including hands-on keyboard attack, malware payloads, initial attack vectors and Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs).
- Produce quality threat analysis reports for both internal and external audience.
- Assist in sandbox improvements by analyzing malware that hinders the sandbox environment in running the threat, which deploys various anti-analysis techniques.
- Develop Cleanup rules to remove artifacts that are left behind by the behavioral protection rules.
- Collaborate with other cross-functional teams to improve behavioral protection capability based on the threat analysis.
- Guide and train junior team members in assisting malware analysis, peer code review.
- Assist in the development of tools wherever necessary to improve day-to-day task.
What You Will Bring
- Strong knowledge of Windows Internals including Memory management, Processes, Threads.
- Proficiency in both static and dynamic analysis of threats, using tools such as IDAPro, WinDbg.
- Demonstrated programming experience. Preferred: Python, Lua.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to demonstrate complex technical problem to peer researchers as well as to product engineering team.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to think strategically and creatively.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer software (Computer Security preferable) or equivalent experience.