Threat Analyst University Graduates

About Microsoft

Microsoft develops, manufactures, and licenses computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and services. Its best-known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers.

Your role

Job Description

• The Security, Compliance, and Identity Management (SCIM) team is committed to defending Microsoft customers from cyber-attacks as well as providing sophisticated tooling for securing important data.
• SCIM fosters an agile development environment, continuously gathering and analyzing data to combat evolving threats.
• The mission is to help protect customers with truly innovative proactive protection, advise customers on emerging trends, and engage in valuable partnerships.
• As the Research organization within SCIM, it’s my job to stay one step ahead of malicious adversaries and predict the threats of the future.
• They work with partners across Microsoft to innovate new approaches for detecting and tracking threats, attacker techniques, tools, and infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• They build innovative security and data compliance products.
• The security products are brought together in the Microsoft 365 Defender (M365D) suite.
• M365D enables Microsoft’s enterprise customers to detect, investigate, understand, and respond to advanced threats on their networks via a combination of behavioral sensors, cloud security analytics, and threat intelligence.
• The Microsoft Threat Experts Team is looking for threat hunters! No matter how sophisticated attacker behaviors become, Microsoft 365 Defender (M365D) will help enterprises detect, investigate, and respond to advanced attacks and data breaches on their networks.
• The team uses deep knowledge of the attacker landscape and rich telemetry from their sensors to perform root-cause analysis and generate custom alerts, ensuring that M365D customers are well-equipped to quickly respond to human adversaries identified in their unique environments.
• Ensuring that no human adversary can operate silently begins with experts harnessing the powerful optics provided by M365D, across the attacker kill chain, coupled with world-class detections. 
• They’re looking for a skilled hunter to harness the power of Microsoft’s trillions of security signals to quickly identify and report the latest human adversary behaviors, drive critical context-rich alerts, build new tools and automation in support of hunting objectives, and drive innovations for detecting advanced attacker tradecraft.
• Explore and correlate large data sets to uncover novel attack techniques, monitor and catalog changes in activity group tradecraft, to research and provide new detection mechanisms.
• Acquire new and leverage existing knowledge of attacker tools, tactics, and procedures to improve the security posture of customers.
• Self-driven and team-cooperated research on novel attack techniques to simulate them in the lab on endpoints and cloud infrastructure to identify required detection mechanisms.
• Identify the need for required tools for research and analysis and effectively engage and collaborate with partners in engineering and data science to develop and maintain them.
• Effectively engage and collaborate with partners in data science, and threat research to develop and maintain high-fidelity detection rules.
• Build hunting tools and automation for use in the discovery of human adversaries.
• You would be expected to support a 24/7 operation model that may sometimes involve working night shifts.

Training & development

The company's growth mindset culture begins with valuing learning knowing-seeking out new ideas, embracing challenges, learning from failure, and improving over time. To support this culture, they offer a diverse range of learning and development opportunities. They believe training can be more than formal instruction, and their philosophy focuses on providing the right learning, at the right time, and in the right way.

Employee benefits

They may provide the following benefits

• Job Training
• Gymnasium
• Free Transport
• Team Outings
• Cafeteria
• Soft Skill Training

To learn more about their benefits click here

Career Progression

Microsoft provides career opportunities to students and recent graduates. The interns are also provided with the opportunity to build community and explore their passions while working on real-world projects.

Work-life balance

Work days are usually from Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings). They also promote hybrid work culture depending upon your job role.

Culture & vibe

At Microsoft India Development Center, they strive to create an inclusive environment that is stronger for the diversity of its people. This in turn helps them understand the world better and deliver meaningful solutions and experiences.

About You

Qualifications

• University Graduates

How to apply

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