SOC Analyst

SOC Analyst About the Role We are looking for an Information Protection Analyst to support cybersecurity operations focused on protecting sensitive business information and reducing data leakage risks. In this role, you will investigate security events related to data movement and handling, assess potential policy violations, manage business exceptions, and help improve Data Loss Prevention controls. You will cooperate with security, compliance, data protection, application, and business teams to ensure that security requirements remain effective without unnecessarily disrupting business operations.

What You’ll Do Investigate alerts related to potentially unauthorized or suspicious handling of sensitive information. Analyze data transfers across email, endpoints, cloud applications, collaboration platforms, and removable media. Assess incidents based on severity, scope, business impact, and potential security or compliance risk.

Verify suspected policy violations and identify false positives. Escalate confirmed security incidents and support remediation activities. Document investigation findings, root causes, decisions, and corrective actions.

Review business requests requiring exceptions from existing data protection controls. Assess business justification and associated security and compliance risks. Coordinate exception approvals with relevant security, privacy, compliance, and business stakeholders.

Ensure approved exceptions are documented, time-limited, monitored, and