Western Digital Senior Information Security Analyst - Insider Risk Team Lead 

United States, California, Irvine 

335831474

Here’s how you can help.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Insider risk team lead takes responsibility for digital forensic investigations, interfacing with legal, and mentoring insider risk team members.
• It's a hands-on position that will allow you to express your investigative, computer forensics, and analytics skills.
• You will lead investigation of threat signals, develop your own indicators, mentor and coach more junior team members.
• You will be in frequent communication with business leaders, legal, and members of other teams.
• Analytical skills and thorough understanding of technologies, including operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Linux), network communication protocols, and data formats are essential for this job.

REQUIRED:

• Ability to independently complete assigned responsibilities, drive forensics investigations, oversight and mentor international team, deliver investigation reports to managers, legal, and executive management.
• Working knowledge of DLP: able to explain and articulate events and user activity
• Understanding of user behaviors that endanger company’s intellectual property: able to explain possible methods of IP egress from company computers.
• Understanding of system behavior and artifacts associated with using removable media and file shares: able to explain what artifacts present themselves when a removable media is connected and removed from a system, including Windows, MacOS, and Linux.
• Understanding of firewall and DNS logs for identification of data leaks to cloud storages and other services: should be able to read firewall and DNS logs and explain communication details.
• Be able to communicate in written and spoken English with managers (up to C level) and Legal team to explain DLP events and provide escalation information.
• Working understanding of technical terms related to DLP events and ability to explain them to non-technical people.
• Able to read and interpret basic scripts in Python and PowerShell.

PREFERRED:

• Previous law enforcement investigation background is a big plus.
• Understanding of machine learning principles is a plus.

Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be

Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.
• You will be eligible to participate in Western Digital’s Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance. Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Western Digital’s Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program, employee stock purchase plan, and the Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.