Nessus Vulnerability Research Engineer

Role Description

Reports To: Director of Research

The Vulnerability Research Engineer is part of the Research Department. Tenable maintains a staff of engineers who keep track of all new publicized vulnerabilities and then develop "plugins" for the Nessus vulnerability scanner. These "plugins" are short programs that efficiently and accurately test scanned systems for the presence of the vulnerability. Often, being able to accurately test for the vulnerability involves analyzing vendor-supplied security patches, manually configuring vulnerable targets in a virtual environment, analyzing the system or application to reliably understand the impact of the vulnerability then developing a method to test for the vulnerability remotely.

Key Responsibilities

• Keep track of the newest published vulnerabilities
• Analyze vendor-supplied security patches
• Reproduce the conditions to exploit a vulnerability
• Develop plugins to be utilized by Nessus that will recognize the presence of the vulnerability remotely
• Work with vulnerability data, log data and security events

Ideal Candidate Description

• 2-4 years of security research experience, reverse engineering experience a plus
• Basic system administration skills
• In-depth knowledge of network protocols, Unix and Windows internals
• Experience with several programming languages

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