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COFENSE

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2011

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

Cybersecurity • SaaS • B2B

COFENSE is a cybersecurity company that specializes in phishing detection and response. Its platform combines expert-supervised AI, real-time threat intelligence, security awareness training, and managed services to find and remediate email, SMS, voice, and chat phishing attacks that bypass traditional defenses. The SaaS solution integrates with existing security controls to reduce dwell time, automate remediation, and continuously train employees to lower phishing risk for enterprise customers.

📋 Description

• Monitor systems for customer-reported emails • Analyze phishing campaigns and related threats to identify patterns • Gather intelligence from analyzed malware for dissemination to customers • Assess reported emails to determine whether they pose a threat or are benign • Identify malicious threats and provide customers with mitigation details and guidance • Initiate threat analysis tickets for email threats • Maintain ownership of customer tickets, including updating, communicating, and documenting resolutions • Write rules, signatures, and descriptors for data-sharing and automation technologies • Leverage malware analysis platforms and technologies to identify malware infrastructure and tactics • Assist in producing monthly customer reports • Identify process improvements to increase service efficiency and effectiveness • Perform other duties as assigned • Report to the Manager of Threat Analysts

🎯 Requirements

• 1+ years of IT security experience or security education • Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or equivalent experience preferred • Demonstrated experience performing phishing and malware analysis • Certification in one major technology provider or Malware Analysis and Incident Response preferred • Working knowledge of networking, operating systems, email infrastructures, antivirus programs, and advanced threat detection systems • Skilled with common end-user applications, web browsers, and productivity applications such as MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint • Basic understanding of email protocols, headers, and formats • Ability to apply critical thinking to threat investigations • Ability to recognize the need for prompt escalation of malware review • Ability to learn new techniques for conducting malware analysis • Ability to learn and quickly implement tradecraft standards • Ability to exercise independent judgment and creative problem-solving techniques • Strong verbal and written communication and organizational skills • Strong critical thinking and operational judgment skills • Ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment • Flexibility to work evening hour shifts as necessitated • Regex and YARA rule creation nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal employment opportunity protections • Employment benefits mentioned as an area covered by nondiscrimination commitments; no specific benefits listed