This position also requires analysis of cybersecurity threat indicators and their behaviors, and research and implement new security risk and threat mitigation strategies, tools, techniques, and solutions for the prevention, detection, containment, and correction of data security breaches; monitoring agency systems, reporting anomalous activity or malicious traffic, and perform cybersecurity incident detection, analysis, and prevention; assist in administration of security tools; and assisting in conducting vulnerability scans of networks and applications to assess effectiveness and identify weaknesses; assist in identifying and evaluating new cybersecurity technologies to identify and remediate vulnerabilities; and providing input on improving network, server, workstation and application security SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS . Preferred Certifications: Certification as a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), SANS GIAC Certification, Security+, Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), EC-Council Certified Incident Handler (ECIH), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), or comparative cybersecurity professional certification.