DFIR Consultant

GuidePoint Security provides trusted cybersecurity expertise, solutions and services that help organizations make better decisions and minimize risk. By taking a three-tiered, holistic approach for evaluating security posture and ecosystems, GuidePoint enables some of the nation’s top organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, to identify threats, optimize resources and integrate best-fit solutions that mitigate risk.

General Description

The Senior DFIR Consultant is a seasoned technical contributor within GuidePoint Security’s Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) Practice. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, the Senior Consultant leads and executes complex investigations across a range of engagement types, delivers high-quality analysis and client communication, and helps the practice continuously evolve its methodologies and tooling in response to emerging threats.

The DFIR Practice performs reactive incident response investigations, forensic investigations, proactive threat discovery and threat hunting, and Purple Team exercises (as Blue Team in collaboration with the GuidePoint Red Team). In this role you will be a technical resource who leverages deep knowledge, skills, and experience to deliver results to clients across a variety of sectors, applying creativity and adaptability to mission-critical assessments.

Roles and Responsibilities: 

Technical Execution & Engagement Delivery

• Investigation Execution: Operate as a core technical resource within the Practice and actively lead and perform DFIR investigations, including host forensics, network traffic analysis, malware handling/triage, log review, and BEC analysis.
• Engagement Communication: Drive effective engagement communication, time management, and coordination throughout the investigative lifecycle.
• Deliverables: Author comprehensive engagement deliverables tailored to both technical and managerial audiences that fully detail technical findings, recommendations, business impact, and realistic remediation strategies.
• Mission-Critical Assessments: Apply creativity and adaptability to perform advanced, mission-critical assessments across reactive and proactive engagement types.

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Collaboration & Continuous Improvement**

• Peer Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with peers across concurrent engagements, sharing findings and coordinating to deliver consistent, high-quality results.
• Automation & Efficiency: Utilize automation, orchestration, and scripting to reduce manual processes, improve overall efficiency, and enable new capabilities that meet the rapidly changing needs of clients.