Associate Cybersecurity Analyst, Intern - GRC Austin, TX

Visa • Austin, TX

350d • $27 - $31 • Hybrid

About The Position

Visa is looking for an Associate Cybersecurity Analyst, Intern candidate to join our Cybersecurity Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) team, which works with several stakeholders to ensure appropriate processes, procedures, and controls are adequately designed and implemented to meet Visa security requirements and mitigate any risks that are associated with engagement of third parties. Also, oversight, coordination, and delivering the activities that support successful internal audits, external audits and compliance, regulatory activities, and external customer/client requests while effectively balancing the individual elements of these activities.

Requirements

• Students pursuing a Bachelor's or Masters degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, CIS/MIS, Cybersecurity, Business or a related field, with less than 2 years relevant work experience, graduating December 2025 or later.
• Strong communications skills, specifically, the absence of repeated grammatical or typographical errors, clear and concise written and spoken communications that demonstrate professional judgment.

Nice To Haves

• University or internship experience in cybersecurity, IT audit, or IT risk management.
• Experience in cybersecurity, IT audit, risk management, compliance, or related fields.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks and standards such as NIST, ISO, PCI, etc.
• Experience working with multiple individuals on internal and external delivery.
• Ability to synthesize a variety of data points, problem solve and formulate comprehensive and effective execution and risk mitigation plans.
• Excellent Data Analysis skills using Microsoft Excel, SQL, or other scripting languages.
• Review and provide feedback on development code, test designs and test cases.
• Experience in Audit/Compliance/Regulatory discussions and proactive readiness activities in a large global financial institution or a matrix organization.
• Experience in Risk and Control Self-Assessment activities related to Cybersecurity function.
• Strong ability to collaborate.
• Highly driven, resourceful and results oriented.
• Good team player and excellent interpersonal skills.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and navigate through ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Assist with oversight, coordination, and delivering the activities that support successful internal audits, external audits and compliance, regulatory activities, and external customer/client requests.
• Assist with validating the ongoing effectiveness of Cybersecurity controls across Visa (both automated and manual), working with a variety of control owners within the Cybersecurity organization, and evaluating control design and standards in a variety of program areas.
• Assess the security on various platforms and technologies from attacks like Payment processing platforms, Payment Wallet solutions, Consumer facing applications, COTS products deployed in house, SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS public cloud offerings, Mainframe, Linux, Windows, and virtual machines, IDS, SIEM, WAF, Firewalls, HSMs, Tokenization systems, data encryption solutions, APIs, Web technologies, Relational and noSQL databases, Access Management solutions.
• Assist with data points into Information Security risk management reporting activities, including dashboards, metrics, and executive reporting content.
• Assist with risk/security assessments of Suppliers and Third-Party relationships to identify, validate and remediate risks Cybersecurity Risks.
• Participate and conduct onsite assessments of Third Parties against Visa's security framework and industry security standards.
• Support PCI-related activities relevant to third parties to ensure compliance with PCI requirements.
• Update Cybersecurity leadership on the status of technology risk and compliance issues based on assessment results and information from various monitoring and control systems.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401 (k)
• FSA/HSA
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Wellness Program

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Industry: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree