The Mid-Level Cyber Systems Analyst

Evaluate the cybersecurity posture of USMC defense programs, ensuring assessments reflect evolving cybersecurity best practices and prioritize threats based on comprehensive cyber analysis.

Assess foreign capabilities to detect, disrupt, deny, degrade, or exploit USMC emissions and signals across the cyber kill chain. This includes emissions associated with targeting, communications, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), and other tactical systems, as well as reversible and non-reversible attacks.

Monitor and assess emerging and commercial technologies that state and non-state actors could leverage to detect, disrupt, exploit, or compromise the network infrastructure supporting USMC acquisition programs.

Identify and assess critical environmental and network risk factors, including network classification, baseline activity, system architecture, operating systems, services, connectivity, and bandwidth.

Define network boundaries and identify connected or supporting networks that may require intelligence collection.

Evaluate existing intelligence databases and other sources to identify intelligence gaps and collection requirements.

Conduct open-source research and collect relevant Publicly Available Information (PAI).

Analyze the physical and cyber battlespace to determine how environmental conditions may affect tactical operations and characterize resulting operational impacts.

Assess battlespace information, services, and networks with a focus on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, including mechanisms to protect, detect, respond, restore, and review.

Evaluate additional battlespace characteristics, including security controls, auditing procedures, backup systems, asset locations, architecture, automation capabilities, security policies, baseline activity, and vulnerabilities.

Develop analytic conclusions relevant to Rules of Engagement (ROE), Information Assurance (IA), Computer Network Defense (CND), and Computer Network Attack (CNA).

Identify potential adversary Courses of Action (COAs), including likely objectives, desired outcomes, and the full range of available options, with particular emphasis on the most likely and most dangerous COAs.