Hi M***y, I hope you’re doing well. I’m J*****e, an HR Recruiter at StrategyBrain. I came across your profile and was impressed by your 3+ years leading incident response efforts at A***n A***s, as well as your hands-on experience with SIEM, packet analysis and SANS training. I’m currently partnering with G***d S***y S***s to find a Cybersecurity Incident Response Engineer who can drive end-to-end investigations and help build out their playbooks. Would you be open to a brief chat to explore if this role aligns with your career goals? Looking forward to hearing from you. Best regards, J*****e HR Recruiter, StrategyBrain

Hi M***y, Great to hear you’re interested! I’m available for a quick call this week,would any of these slots work for you? • Wednesday (5/3) at 10:00 AM MST • Thursday (5/4) at 2:00 PM MST • Friday (5/5) at 9:00 AM MST If none of these fit, just let me know your availability. In the meantime, here’s a brief overview of the Cybersecurity Incident Response Engineer role at G***d: Company & Culture • G***d is a growing cybersecurity firm specializing in managed detection and response for global clients. • We pride ourselves on a collaborative, innovation-driven environment and invest heavily in continuous learning and professional growth. Key Responsibilities 1. Lead end-to-end incident response: detection, triage, containment & recovery. 2. Analyze security events via SIEM, logs & packet captures,exactly the kind of work you’ve excelled at in your current role. 3. Conduct digital forensics on compromised systems and coordinate remediation with cross-functional teams. 4. Develop and maintain IR playbooks, processes & training materials,leveraging your playbook experience. 5. Perform threat hunting exercises and vulnerability assessments to proactively mitigate risks. Why This Role Fits You • You’ll own critical incidents from start to finish and help shape playbooks that scale across the organization. • G***d’s culture of learning means you’ll have access to training (SANS, certifications) and mentorship. • Clear paths for growth into senior IR leadership or threat-hunting specialties. Let me know which call time works best, and feel free to ask any questions about the role or the company beforehand. Looking forward to our conversation! Best, J*****e HR Recruiter, StrategyBrain

Hi M***y, Great,Thursday at 2:00 PM MST is confirmed. Our Incident Response team today is a tight-knit group of six full-time engineers: one team lead, two senior IR analysts and three incident responders. We’re in the process of scaling as our client base grows, so you’d have clear opportunities to help shape and expand the team. For day-to-day monitoring and analysis we leverage an enterprise-grade SIEM platform (integrated with our packet-capture and forensic toolsets) to ingest, correlate and triage events across all environments. We’ll dive into the specifics of how we use it, as well as our playbooks and threat-hunting workflows, when we chat. Let me know if you have any other questions before Thursday. Looking forward to our conversation! Best regards, J*****e HR Recruiter, StrategyBrain

Hi M***y, Great questions,here’s a bit more color ahead of Thursday’s call: 1. SIEM Platform & Rules • We run Splunk Enterprise Security as our core SIEM, tightly integrated with our packet-capture and forensic toolsets. • We started with many out-of-the-box correlation rules to accelerate coverage, but over time we’ve built a library of custom detections and playbooks tuned to our clients’ environments. That customization is a key differentiator for us,and something you’d help evolve further. 2. On-Call Rotation & Shift Coverage • We maintain 24/7 IR support via a primary/secondary on-call model. Each engineer picks up one full week of primary on-call, backed by a secondary responder for escalations. • To smooth handoffs and reduce fatigue, we also stagger shifts Monday,Friday (roughly 8 AM,8 PM MST), with overnight incidents handled by on-call only. • This structure keeps the team lean but ensures coverage around the clock. Feel free to let me know if you’d like any tweaks or deeper details before our discussion. Looking forward to talking through how your background in SIEM tuning and IR playbooks can make an impact at G***d! Best, J*****e HR Recruiter, StrategyBrain

Hi M***y, Great questions,here’s a snapshot of how we handle Splunk rule development and incident management at G***d: 1. Rule Development Pipeline • Dev & Coding: Engineers build and tune new correlation searches in a dedicated Splunk dev instance, using Git for version control. • Testing & Validation: We replay historical logs and simulated threat data in a staging environment, measuring key metrics (alert volume, false positives, detection latency) and refining rules. Peer reviews ensure quality and consistency. • Deployment: Once vetted, rules are pushed to production via our CI/CD process, with change tickets tracked end-to-end. Post-deployment, we monitor rule performance and adjust thresholds as needed. 2. Incident Load & SLA Tracking • Average Load: During a primary on-call week, an engineer typically handles around a dozen medium- to high-severity incidents, though volumes ebb and flow with client activity. • SLA Management: Our Splunk alerts feed directly into our IR ticketing system. We track time-to-acknowledge, time-to-contain, and time-to-resolve in real time on automated dashboards. Weekly reports highlight SLA compliance and help us zero in on any bottlenecks. Let me know if you’d like any more detail before Thursday’s call. Looking forward to discussing how your Splunk tuning experience can take our detection capabilities to the next level! Best regards, J*****e HR Recruiter, StrategyBrain

Hi M***y, Great questions,here’s how we handle both scenarios: 1. Rollbacks on False-Positive Spikes • Automated Alerting: If a new search suddenly floods with alerts, it triggers an ops notification (Slack/email) and flags the CI build. • Emergency Disable & Revert: The on-call engineer can immediately disable the correlation search in Splunk Enterprise Security and revert to the last stable Git commit. • Post-Mortem & Tune: We then replay logs in our dev/staging environment, adjust thresholds or logic, peer-review the fix, and redeploy once the search passes our validation metrics. 2. Pruning/Retiring Rules • Quarterly Health Reviews: Every quarter the team reviews rule performance dashboards,rules with no firings or consistently low precision over a 90-day window are flagged. • Retirement Backlog: Flagged searches move into a “retirement backlog” where we either re-tune them (if still relevant) or archive them in Git with notes on why they were retired. • Ad-hoc Cleanups: We also spot-check rules monthly during our incident post-mortems to catch any that have gone stale between formal reviews. Let me know if you’d like any tweaks or have other questions before our call on Thursday at 2:00 PM MST. Looking forward to digging into more details then! Best, J*****e HR Recruiter, StrategyBrain