Security Analyst

Are you a HACKER?

We are looking for new colleagues (both junior and experienced) to reinforce our team of security specialists. In our informal work environment you will be given ample opportunity to use a variety of techniques, including penetration testing, hardware hacking and software reverse engineering, to discover a product’s fraud risk profile in order to improve its security.

Riscure is an internationally acknowledged company specialising in the security analysis of smart cards and embedded devices. Our thorough and specialist knowledge in the field of data security brings customers to us from all over the world. They include major microchip manufacturers, financial institutions such as Visa and MasterCard, and specialist government service departments. As a front-runner in security research we attend and publish at international conferences to share knowledge with the academic community.

Your job

• Evaluating the security of products that use smart-card and embedded technologies. The main activities of the evaluation process include analysing threats and weaknesses, defining and implementing (i.e. programming) the appropriate tests, running the tests, and analysing the results.
• Carrying out various types of security analysis, including architecture evaluation, logical and hardware penetration tests, source code evaluation, and side channel analysis.
• Reporting the results of your work describing any weaknesses you find and their impact, and you will give recommendations for solving these problems.
• In addition to security analysis work you will also carry out other projects, including consultancy work, research, tool development, and training.
• Recording the knowledge you gain during a project in the Riscure knowledge database to ensure it is preserved and shared within Riscure.
• Collaborating on internal R&D projects such as the development and improvement of Riscure’s evaluation tools, research into possible security risks of new technology, and the development of new forms of attack.
• You will work mainly at our offices in Delft. All communications with our customers are in English.

Your qualifications

• You have completed an academic course in Information Technology or Electrical Engineering.
• You have a broad interest in information security issues and electronic equipment.
• You have a well-developed sense of proportion to enable you to correctly assess the value to the customer of any problems you detect. Your focus is on the customer.
• You have a good command of the English language, both verbally and written.
• You have good social skills and you are a pleasant co-worker who likes to collaborate in a multidisciplinary team of security specialists.

Contacts

• You are supervised by the project manager.
• You will receive directions from two technical directors.
• In many cases you will collaborate with one or several of the other Security Analysts when working on a project.

What Riscure offers

• Most of our customers are large, international organisations based in North America, Europe, and Asia. It is very important for us to be able to provide these customers with high-quality, professional services. In our daily work this entails rating content over appearances, and creating an open and sincere work environment with ample room for fresh ideas.
• Riscure is one of the world’s most advanced players in the field of side channel analysis techniques and embedded technology evaluation. This makes for a unique workplace with fascinating customers.
• At Riscure you will be working together with people who are passionate about their job. Each of them is eager to learn and willing to share knowledge. We have weekly lunch meetings during which we take turns to keep one another up to date about the latest developments.
• You will form part of a small, highly specialised company with an informal working environment, ensuring that your work is varied and that you have direct contact with every layer within the organisation.
• Riscure is a young and growing company. In addition to attractive terms of employment, you will be given the chance of letting your own responsibility and personal development grow with the organisation.