Cybersecurity Analyst

Siskinds LLP is a leading law firm located in Southwestern Ontario. We are a team of over
240 lawyers and staff covering personal legal services, business law, personal injury law,
and class actions law as well as over 25 specialized practice areas. We help clients make
the right legal choices, manage their legal affairs, and resolve complicated matters. Our
culture and working style strive to make our clients’ experiences comfortable, reassuring,
and productive while delivering excellence in the services we provide.

Cybersecurity Analyst - Full-time

What are you looking for?
- Be part of a cohesive team that promotes collaboration and teamwork
- Work in a technologically advanced environment with exposure to many specialized- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Professional development opportunities
- Strength of a big firm with the culture of a small firm
- Subsidized downtown parking
- Working within a state-of-the-art building

Who are we looking for?

Siskinds is growing and we are currently seeking a Cybersecurity Analyst. This position will
require you to ensure the secure operation of the organization’s internal and external
and reviewing security logs, reports, data, network traffic and analytics to identify
suspicious activity and threats along with scanning, configuring, deploying, maintaining and
will use the collected data to develop protections and provide advice to leadership on best
practices to improve security and organize training programs for non-technical employees
for better understanding and adherence to the organization’s policies. This role is
responsible for keeping the company’s security systems up to date, creating
documentation and planning for all security related information. Tasks may include
involvement in the implementation of new security solutions, participation in the creation
and/or maintenance of policies, standards, baselines, trainings, guidelines and procedures
as well as conducting vulnerability and compliance audits and assessments. This role will
assist in the identification, investigation and timely resolution of security-related incidents
and alerts detected by IT systems. The Cybersecurity Analyst will research industry trends
along with in-the-wild security threats and will work collaboratively to recommend, develop
and implement mitigation techniques, processes and/or deploy hotfixes and patches to
protect IT assets.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information

Technology or similar
- Preferred cybersecurity certification: CISSP Certification
- 2
- 5 years experience in cybersecurity in an enterprise environment including: security

tool deployment and support, security risk, vulnerability analyses and remediation
- Advanced understanding of TCP/IP, common networking protocols, traffic flow,

system administration, OSI model, defense-in-depth and common security elements
such as NIST and other industry relevant cybersecurity frameworks
- Demonstrated experience with conducting security assessments, implementing

information security recommendations, analyzing technical controls, and applying
security control standards.
- Must have demonstrated experience with applicable Industry Standards and

Frameworks; specifically, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL),
Centre for Internet Security Critical Security Controls (CIS CSC), NIST Cybersecurity
Framework (CSF) and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
- One or more of the following certifications: CompTIA Security+, Microsoft Certified

Systems Administrator: Security, Certifications in one or more of the following areas
is preferred: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified
Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and/or SANS GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC),
Additional certifications from Palo Alto, VMware, or Citrix will be seen as an asset.
- Hands-on experience analyzing high volumes of logs, network data and other attack

artifacts
- Experience with vulnerability scanning solutions
- Proficiency with antivirus and security software including Carbon Black Cloud
- Sensor and Windows Defender- Experience with SIEM solutions such as AlienVault considered an asset
- Experience working with 3rd parties to engage, conduct, deliver assessments and

recommended remediations

**Responsibilities**:
Strategy & Planning
- Assist with the design and implementation of business continuity,

incident response and disaster recovery plans for operating systems,

collaboration with internal systems stakeholders.
- Assess need for ongoing proactive security reconfigurations (minor

or significant) and execute them as required.
- Conduct research on emerging threats, products, services, protocols,

and standards in support of security enhancement and ongoing
development efforts.
- Acquisition & Deployment
- Maintain up-to-date detailed knowledge of the IT security industry

including awareness of new or revi