Employer’s hire CCDAs to preform critical tasks which include:

• Use cyber defense tools for continual monitoring and analysis of system activity to identify malicious activity.
• Document and escalate incidents (including event’s history, status, and potential impact for further action) that may cause ongoing and immediate impact to the environment.
• Analyze identified malicious activity to determine weaknesses exploited, exploitation methods, effects on system and information.
• Perform event correlation using information gathered from a variety of sources within the enterprise to gain situational awareness and determine the effectiveness of an observed attack.
• Conduct research, analysis, and correlation across a wide variety of all source data sets (indications and warnings).
• Receive and analyze network alerts from various sources within the enterprise and determine possible causes of such alerts.