The Information Security Intern role requires a very motivated goal driven individual with strong interpersonal, communication and organizational skills. Must be detail oriented, with a strong work ethic, able to work with minimal supervision. The role also requires an individual who will act as a security liaison with groups within and outside of JobTarget IT. The Information Security Intern primary job role is to reduce risk to JobTarget Information Systems, Platforms and Applications through the understanding and the adherence to a risk management framework and to provide governance through the drafting and socialization of security standards, guidelines, policies, and procedures.
Responsibilities:
Reducing risk through governance and education:
- Responsible for being the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Information Security Incident
- Response Actions, ensuring incidents are properly triaged, addressed, tracked, and closed.
- Create Incident Response Playbooks and help in developing Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
- Responsible for performing internal and external security assessments/testing to validate the effectiveness of current security infrastructure using commonly available security assessment tools and make recommendations to remediate identified risks or vulnerabilities.
- Responsible for review and audit of assets such as VPN, Firewall, & IDS/IPS Configuration & Management.
- Responsible for assisting in the development of appropriate security related policies, procedures, guidelines, standards, benchmarks/metrics and/or processes for network infrastructure, servers, firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention (IDS/IPS) appliances and software.
- Responsible for monitoring, management and review of network security components and event management applications, as well as the ability to make prudent recommendations for improving overall network security.
- Responsible for assisting in various projects to ensure corporate governance of security and compliance with applicable regulations.
- Generates Information Security metrics and reports for executive leadership
- Liaisons with Legal for vendor management, e-discovery, and basic forensics
- Directs Security Awareness Training for employees
- Develops policy documentation
Qualifications:
Core Skills
- Acts responsibly with sensitive and confidential information
- Is creative and resourceful as a problem solver
- Consistently demonstrates the drive to deliver successfully even under difficult timelines
- Has strong analytical, methodical, investigative and auditing skills
- Knows when to make practical rational decisions that reduce risk to JobTarget information and Information systems
- Good written and verbal communications skills
- Good technical writing skills
- A critical logical thinker who is efficient and methodical
Job Type: OJT (On the job training)
Contract length: 4 months
Work Location: In person