Consulting Associate/Cybersecurity & Incident Response (Forensic Services practice)

About Charles River Associates

Charles River Associates is a leading global consulting firm that provides economic, financial, and business management expertise to major law firms, corporations and governments around the world. CRA advises clients on economic and financial matters pertaining to litigation and regulatory proceedings, and guides corporations through critical business strategy and performance-related issues. Since 1965, clients have engaged CRA for its combination of industry experience and rigorous, fact-based analysis that provide clients with clear, implementable solutions to complex business concerns.

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Position Overview

CRA’s Forensic Services practice supports companies’ commitment to integrity by assisting them and their counsel in independently responding to allegations of fraud, waste, abuse, misconduct, and non-compliance. We are noted for deploying cross-trained teams of forensic professionals to assist our clients in gaining deeper insights and greater value more quickly. We provide accounting and forensic services as well as cybercrime investigation services.

We are looking for curious, analytical, highly motivated candidates with 3-5 years of experience who have majored in Computer Science, Digital Forensics, Information Security, and/or Information Systems. We value knowledge of cybersecurity concepts, research experience, quantitative ability, exceptional written and oral communication skills, and a high level of initiative. We expect Consulting Associates to use data to solve client problems, work collaboratively with a team, effectively manage their time, prioritize tasks, and take pride and ownership in their work.

The opportunities to contribute to the Forensics team in this role may include (but are not limited to):

• Executing security and privacy investigations for CRA clients, in preparation of, and in response to, data security matters, which may include ongoing breach detection, threat analysis, incident response and malware analysis;

• Providing expert digital forensic support for counsel and clients in support of data security incidents, such as data breaches or fraud;

• Assisting in the drafting of forensic reports, affidavits and testifying as an expert in the field of digital forensics and incident response;

• Engaging in problem-solving and forensic analysis of digital information using standard evidence handling techniques and computer forensics tools;

• Identify, research, and organize information to assess the appropriateness and sufficiency of available data to facilitate effective data access and analysis;

• Developing familiarity with data that serves as input to this analysis, including threat intelligence, logging data, as well as contextual clues;