The opportunity
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era.
What you'll do
Define and drive the technical direction for major threat research initiatives.
Identify emerging attack surfaces, adversary behaviors, and areas where: additional research can materially improve Okta's understanding of the threat landscape.
Lead complex and open-ended research efforts into novel adversary behaviors,: attack techniques, campaigns, and security risks.
Develop research hypotheses and identify the telemetry, artifacts,: intelligence, and other inputs necessary to investigate them.
Develop new research methodologies, analytical approaches, prototypes, and: tooling that improve the organization's ability to identify and understand threats.
Analyze security telemetry and technical artifacts to identify attacker: behaviors, infrastructure, techniques, trends, and previously unknown activity.
What they're looking for
- Translate threat research into actionable outcomes, including detections,: threat hunts, intelligence, product capabilities, tooling, research publications, and customer protections.
- Establish and improve research methodologies, technical standards, and: processes that enable the Threat Research organization to operate effectively at scale.
- Partner closely with Threat Hunting, Detection Engineering, Data Science,: Product Management, and Engineering to ensure research findings are incorporated into the broader Okta security ecosystem.
- Provide senior technical leadership during complex investigations and significant customer security events.