New 
Security Researcher II
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Aug 07, 2025 | |
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OverviewThe Cloud & AI organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world. Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) is focused on discovering and tracking threats to customers. Create a more secure environment through the Secure Future Initiative. MSTIC focuses on reducing global harm and protecting Microsoft and its customers using threat intelligence. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. The External Attack Surface Intelligence (EASI) team within MSTIC focuses on creating an outside-in view of Microsoft's cyber-attack surface. We combine an attacker's view with internal data to enable security organizations to mitigate risk and identify gaps in security programs. We are looking for a Security Researcher II who can work with a team to write signatures to identify specified web components in our scanning database and develop Attack Surface Insights in order to inform Microsoft and our customers where vulnerabilities have been discovered across their digital estate.Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
ResponsibilitiesAs you Security Research II, you will:With guidance from other team members, evaluate infrastructure scan and crawl results to identify technology signatures.Write and deploy rules to identify and label components in attack surface data.Write Attack Surface Insights to provide context and relevant intelligence to Microsoft and our customers.Support additional functions related to attack surface intelligence including attack surface maintenance, delivery of insights to internal partners, and support for incident response teams.Understand interplay across Microsoft technologies and how they give rise to attacker opportunities.Work with others to synthesize findings into recommendations for mitigation of security issues. | |