Cyber Incident Responder Specialist

Description

Summary: This role involves investigating, analyzing, and responding to security incidents to protect the organization's technology assets from cybersecurity threats. Highlights: 1. Lead or execute complex incident response activities with evolving threats 2. Plays a critical role in protecting organizational technology assets 3. Contributes to continuous improvement of incident response processes ### **Cyber Incident Responder Specialist** ### **About Abbott** ### **Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.** ### **Working at Abbott** ### **At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to:** * ### **Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.** * ### **A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.** * ### **A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.** ### **The Opportunity** ### **This is a role based in Bogotá, Colombia. Responsible for investigating, analyzing, and responding to security incidents across the organization’s environment.Leads or executes complex incident response activities, adapts standard procedures to evolving threats.Plays a critical role in protecting the organization’s technology assets by identifying, analyzing, and responding to cybersecurity threats that may result in unauthorized access, misuse, or disruption of services.** ### **WHAT YOU’LL DO** * ### **Monitor security alerts and events from various tools (SIEM, EDR, IDS/IPS, etc.) to identify potential incidents.** * ### **Perform triage, correlation, and in\-depth analysis of security events, including indicators of compromise (IOCs), malware activity, phishing attempts, and suspicious network behavior.** * ### **Conduct forensic analysis on systems, networks, and endpoints to determine root cause and scope of incidents.** * ### **Develop and implement response strategies to mitigate immediate threats and prevent recurrence.** * ### **Support the implementation, tuning, and monitoring of security tools such as SIEM, EDR, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems.** * ### **Ensure security controls are effectively detecting and preventing malicious activity.** * ### **Validate and enhance alerting mechanisms to reduce false positives and improve detection accuracy.** * ### **Document incidents thoroughly, including timelines, impact assessments, and remediation actions.** ### **Position Accountability \& Scope** * ### **Accountable for timely detection, analysis, and response to cybersecurity incidents to minimize organizational risk and business disruption.** * ### **Works under moderate supervision but exercises independent judgment when handling incidents and escalating issues.** * ### **Responsible for maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of organizational systems and data.** * ### **Collaborates cross\-functionally with IT, network, security engineering, and business teams during incident response activities.** * ### **Contributes to continuous improvement of incident response processes, playbooks, and detection capabilities.** * ### **Ensures compliance with internal security policies, standards, and regulatory requirements.** ### **Required Qualifications** * ### **Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or similar area; or equivalent work experience.** * ### **2 years of technical experience in a Security Operations Center (SOC), incident response, or cybersecurity\-related role.** * ### **Demonstrated experience with security monitoring and investigation tools (e.g., SIEM such as Splunk, EDR platforms, email security tools).** * ### **Strong understanding of network protocols, operating systems, enterprise security controls and frameworks such as MITRE ATT\&CK.** ### **Apply now** ### **Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.** ### **Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.**