Principal Researcher (Decoder and Common Service)

Your CareerYou will be part of the team that develops the Intrusion Prevention System to power the Palo Alto Networks’s next generation firewall. The content team is responsible for decoding network protocols, identifying applications and detecting threats on enterprise customers’ networks, providing common service to support a variety of network security services. As a member of the content team, you have the opportunity to work on our IPS content engine and other advanced threat prevention products, and collaborate with different intelligent teams on various advanced cybersecurity features. Your ImpactResearch protocol RFC and related application implementationResearch common file types for file identification, blocking, DLP, etc.Research and provide defense mechanisms against popular protocol/firewall evasionsDevelop protocol and file type decoders, and integrate the detection solutions into the IPS engine of the Palo Alto Networks next generation firewallBuild common services to support various network security servicesDevelop internal tools to monitor and support the cyber security productsCross-team collaboration, discover and integrate advanced cybersecurity features to inline product solutions