Senior Information Security Analyst - Insider Risk Team Lead

Company Description

At Western Digital, we are on a mission to unlock the potential of data so people, companies and organizations everywhere can create what's next. To fulfill our vision, we are always on the lookout for potential team members who share our passion for solving problems to empower others.

When you join Western Digital, you join a legacy more than 50 years in the making. Across our Western Digital®, SanDisk®, SanDisk® Professional, WD® and WD_BLACK™ brands, we have brought some of the most storied advancements in memory and data storage technology to market-and our best, most innovative work is yet to come.

From energizing gaming platforms, to enabling systems to make cities safer and cars smarter and more connected, to powering the data centers behind many of the world's biggest companies and public cloud, Western Digital is fueling a brighter, smarter future.

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.

Qualifications

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.

Additional Information

Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person's gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person's assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the 'Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal (/ eeoc. gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6. 12. pdf) ' poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here: Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision (dol. gov) (/ dol. gov/sites/dolgov/files/OFCCP/pdf/pay-transp_%20English_formattedESQA508c. pdf)

Western Digital thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.

Western Digital is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at jobs. accommodations@wdc. com to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 03/17/2025 (3 months from posting), although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.

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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 participat.