Threat Researcher

Bitsight is a cyber risk management leader transforming how companies manage exposure, performance, and risk for themselves and their third parties. Companies rely on Bitsight to prioritize their cybersecurity investments, build greater trust within their ecosystem, and reduce their chances of financial loss.

Built on over a decade of technological innovation, its integrated solutions deliver value across enterprise security performance, digital supply chains, cyber insurance, and data analysis.

• We invented the cyber ratings industry in 2011
• Over 3000 customers trust Bitsight
• Over 750 teammates are dispersed throughout Boston, Raleigh, New York, Lisbon, Singapore, and remote

Bitsight’s Threat Research team develops and deploys strategies to discover systems compromised by malware and potentially unwanted applications through in depth research and analysis of malware families and infrastructure. As a Staff Threat Researcher, you will research how threats target systems and derive novel mechanisms to infer infections and trends in the threat landscape from our sensor networks. The output of your work will directly improve the world’s largest malware infections tracking system. This is one of the biggest differentiators of Bitsight, as its volume, accuracy and data quality allow for a unique capability when measuring security ratings.

We are looking for candidates who are passionate about cybersecurity and are able to research a threat with limited supervision, derive datasets in meaningful intelligence, develop tools and scripts to assist in threat hunting and tracking.

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