Security Researcher - Bengaluru, India - Lookout Inc

Description

As a member of this team, you will contribute to Lookout's ability to protect its customers' security and privacy by assessing risks posed by web apps, tracking and creating detection logic for web-based threats and threat actors, as well as contributing to platform improvements to scale the intelligence output of the team.

• Enable Cloud risk management solutions by performing risk analysis of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) apps in corporate environments.
• Assess security, privacy, and compliance risk levels of cloud computing services based on multiple factors to help enterprises protect sensitive information and intellectual property.
• Research malicious web sites, actors, their methods, tools, and targets.
• Stop contentbased attacks against Lookout users by creating detection logic.
• Identify risk propagation between connected cloud computing platforms to protect security and privacy of enterprise users.
• Contribute to and evaluate tools to automate acquisition, verification, and updating risk levels of cloud computing services in a rapidly changing environment.

• Knowledge of security and privacy risks faced by enterprises in cloud environments.
• Highlevel understanding of concepts such as data ownership, business continuity and disaster recovery and legal issues related to privacy.
• Familiarity with one or more programming languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, Java) to automate research tasks and contribute to tooling.
• Knowledge of the Domain Name Service (DNS), whois system, and a solid understanding of HTTP(S) is an asset.
• Ability to read and interpret common web technologies and languages such as HTML, JavaScript, PHP etc.
• Familiarity with cloud PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS preferred.
• Curiosity and a strong drive to learn Enterprise Risk management and Cyber security.
• Analytical and critical thinking mindset.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Collaborative attitude and interest in research.