Senior Data Protection Analyst
At a glance
Senior role at Cyberhaven. Remote, United States · full-time · $150,000–$165,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Review Cyberhaven DDR events to tune alerts and policies, directing attention to places where customer data may be at risk
- Update datasets and protection rules as each customer's data-risk plans and business needs change
- Remove misleading or duplicate signals from analytics so incident detection is more accurate
- Investigate people, groups and unapproved data-exit destinations when requested, then document incident findings
- Share analysis through reports for internal teams and handle incident-response project coordination
What you bring
- At least five years using data-protection or related security tools, including EDR, SIEM or SOAR
- Two or more years focused on insider threat or information security
- Working knowledge of endpoint safeguards and incident response, plus DLP, insider-threat, CASB and sensitive-data controls
- You can analyze with SQL, maintain dashboards, edit XML-based DLP rules, and work with scripts and APIs
Who this fits
This senior role suits someone who can investigate endpoint incidents and insider-threat risks while delivering technical analysis and clear customer-facing incident work. The position is remote within the USA.
From the employer
About the role
This is an ideal opportunity for a highly motivated individual to get in on the ground floor as we build out our Professional Services and Managed Services functions at Cyberhaven. The Senior Data Protection Analyst holds a key position in providing continuous value for our customers and is responsible for advancing the mission of identifying potential insider threats and investigating endpoint forensic incidents. You will be responsible for performing technical analysis of data security incidents, finding and exposing risk in a customers environment as well as handling documentation and project management aspects of incident response. You will also perform analysis of events and incidents.
What you’ll do
Provide insight into DLP analytics and related issues.
Analyze Cyberhaven’s Data Detection and Response (DDR) platform event data to improve policies and incidents/alerts and bring focus to areas where data loss risk may exist.
Refine datasets and policies and manage them as customers’ data risk strategy matures and business needs evolve.
Prepare and present summaries and reports to internal team members.
Eliminate noise and false-positive information from analytic results to enhance detection accuracy.
Conduct forensic analysis on people, groups, and non sanctioned egress destinations as requested.
Who you are
5+ years with data protection or adjacent security tools (EDR, SIEM, SOAR) and 2+ years in Insider Threat/InfoSec.
Strong grasp of endpoint protection best practices and incident mitigation workflows.
Experience with DLP, Insider Threat, CASB and controls for handling sensitive data.
Comfortable across macOS, Linux, Windows and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
Data & automation: SQL for analysis; build/maintain dashboards; edit XML-based DLP rules; script and use APIs.
Excellent problem-solving and communication skills; collaborative on a global team; customer-centric with a passion for cloud security and emerging tech.
Joining Cyberhaven means joining the team building Data Security for the Agentic Enterprise. Traditional tools fall short. Cyberhaven traces the full lifecycle of your data, adapting protection to changing context, so protection moves with the way people actually work, not against it. AI Changed Work. We Protect It.
Backed by $250M from leading investors like Khosla and Redpoint, our team includes leaders who built industry-defining technologies at CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Meta, Google, and more. This role lets you shape the future of data security, working alongside people driven to protect workflows, not just data, for customers who cannot afford to slow down to stay safe.
AI Tools Disclosure: As part of Cyberhaven's hiring process, we use recruiting tools that include AI-powered features to help with tasks like scheduling, note-taking, workflow automation, and other recruiting activities ("AI Tools"). The AI Tools may process information you provide during the application and interview process. When AI-assisted interview note taking is used, candidates are notified in advance and have the option to opt out of the AI-assisted interview note taking.
Cyberhaven is committed to creating a diverse environment and is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
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