Incident Response Analyst

Role Summary

TrendAI™, the global AI security leader and enterprise business unit of Trend Micro , empowers organizations with full AI visibility and consolidated security that inspires confidence, drives innovation, and eliminates risk.

At TrendAI™, we’re always seeking exceptional talent; people who want to collaborate with the best and push boundaries together. Here, your work goes beyond building a career. You will help protect what matters and play a vital role in shaping a safer, more trustworthy AI-powered future.

AI Fearlessly.

The Incident Response Analyst is a experienced position that supports TrendAI efforts to provide incident response for TrendAI and its customers. This role blends technical knowledge and experience performing incident response, network monitoring, and performs related malware analysis.

Responsibilities

• Investigate, triage, and respond to security incidents for TrendAI customers across endpoints, networks, and cloud environments, including leading efforts related to containment, eradication, and forensic analysis.
• Conduct thorough root cause analysis and document findings in clear, actionable reports that support both technical teams and stakeholders.
• Perform proactive threat hunting activities to identify adversary behavior that may have evaded existing detection mechanisms.
• Communicate timely and effectively with internal teams and customers.
• Provide timely, actionable updates to customers or internal stakeholders.
• Partner with detection engineering and security operations teams to improve visibility.

Requirements

• 1–2+ years of experience in incident response, forensic analysis, and security operations.
• Strong understanding of operating systems (Windows, Linux, macOS) and enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with threat intelligence frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
• Availability for occasional on-call support and after-hours incident response.
• Willingness to travel as needed to support engagements or customers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Industry certifications such as GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
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At Trend Micro , we embrace change, empower people, and encourage innovation in a connected world. Our diversity and multicultural workforce are key contributing factors to our success across the globe. Trend Micro provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. Trend Micro does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy and childbirth or related medical conditions, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care leave status, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

About the Company

Our Security Research & Development group sits at the frontier of AI-era cyber defense. We study how attackers are beginning to weaponize artificial intelligence, how AI is reshaping detection and response, and what durable capabilities defenders will need over the next several years. We are not a day-to-day operations team. Our charter is to research, prototype, and design the core capabilities that will anchor our platform and our customers' defenses for the next generation.