Required Senior Technical Research Auditor (Cortex Research)
Your Career
As a Senior Technical Research Auditor for Cortex Research, you will be honing and communicating high-quality, groundbreaking cybersecurity and threat intelligence research for Palo Alto Networks XDR & XSIAM Cortex Research Department. This is a highly technical role, and a strong research/technical background is a key qualification. Your goal is to work closely with Cortex researchers and the Unit 42 publishing team to ensure our research is clearly communicated in well-produced research articles and other written, recorded and visual materials. You will also engage in communication with external vendors and industry partners. Constant collaboration with various research groups, Corporate Communications, Legal, and Content Marketing teams is essential to help raise the profile of our research and improve our brand visibility.
Your Impact
Work with researchers to ensure high-quality, accurate, well-written pieces that are ready for publication through our Threat Research Center, social media and other properties.
Assist researchers with understanding how to translate complex technical research into clear storytelling that resonates with media and other non-technical audiences.
Review and fact-check the data and claims in our threat research publications.
Weigh in on technical research topics, such as: threat intelligence, malware analysis, reverse engineering, threat hunting, threat actor attribution, cloud and identity related attacks, endpoint security, and more.
Make necessary corrections and/or coordinate with other teams to identify who can resolve outstanding issues in a piece.
Maintain awareness of when additional notification and coordination is necessary in order to responsibly disclose our findings, including vulnerabilities.
Work with the publishing team in our ongoing effort to improve our guidelines, processes and scheduling.
Requirements: Proven experience writing and/or reviewing cybersecurity research content, including topics, such as: malware, APT, vulnerabilities, incident response, penetration testing, cloud security, threat intelligence briefings.
Deep familiarity with cybersecurity-related technical terms, and common frameworks such as the MITRE ATT&CK framework and demonstrate a good understanding of attack lifecycles.
Familiarity with key concepts and terms in endpoint security, network security, identity and cloud security.
Able to understand highly technical cybersecurity content and improve how it is communicated to a broad audience.
Strong communicator with extraordinary writing, communication and editing skills.
Strong attention to detail.
Experience in online content production.
Proven ability to manage communications and meet deadlines across complex, global stakeholder groups, with experience working in a multicultural environment and coordinating across different time zones.
Native English speaker or English level equivalent to CEFRs C2 level requirements.
Advantages
Proven experience or relevant certifications in any of the following disciplines: penetration testing, threat intelligence, threat hunting, incident response, malware analysis, SOC analysis, cloud security.
Experience in technical writing or editing in a research publication environment (academic, nonprofit or corporate).
Reasonable command of Python, SQL or other coding languages.
This position is open to all candidates.