Meet the Team

Creating leading threat intelligence is the focus of the Cisco Talos Security Intelligence and Research Group (Talos). Talos is comprised of leading threat researchers supported by sophisticated systems. Talos researchers create and modify threat intelligence for Cisco products to protect customers from both known and emerging threats. Talos provides the content and logic for Cisco Secure Firewall, Cisco Secure Email, Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense, Cisco Secure Web, Cisco Umbrella, ClamAV, Snort, and SpamCop.

Your Impact

The Research Escalation Engineer works as part of the Talos Escalations group and is responsible for handling efficacy critical issues for our intrusion prevention, anti-virus, email, and web security suites. You will support a wide range of solutions, including Cisco Secure Firewall, Cisco Secure Endpoint, Cisco Secure Email, Cisco Secure Malware Analytics, Cisco Umbrella, Talos Sender Domain/IP Reputation, and the Talos Reputation Service.

As a Talos Research Engineer, you will:




- Triage internal and external escalations related to security efficacy, coverage, scoring, listing, and reputation determinations made by our security systems.
- Provide third-tier response to intrusion prevention, anti-virus, email, and web security issues called out from customer support and other customer-facing teams.
- Manage ticketing queues and respond to alerts generated by monitoring systems.
- Contribute to the establishment of procedures and standard processes for internal and external use.
- Collaborate closely with tier-four detection content and engineering teams.

Minimum Qualifications (Provide up to five (5) bullet points –
- Solid base knowledge of networking, transport, and application layer protocols (e.g., IP, TCP, UDP, HTTP).
- Good communication and teamwork skills, with sound judgment regarding the handling of proprietary information.
- Extremely robust analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Customer-focused attitude with a

📌 Security Research Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 123 Cisco Systems (India) Private
📍 Bengaluru