Cyber Security Intern

Forrester Research, Inc.•Cambridge, MA

50d

About The Position

At Forrester, we're trusted to work on trailblazing, mission critical problems that business and technology leaders face today. That's why we're always looking to empower talented individuals to perform at their best every single day. We're proud of our community of smart people and vibrant voices who come together to do what's right by our clients and each other. Our success is driven by curiosity, courage and customer obsession. The confidence and drive to be bold at work. Join us and build an extraordinary future. About This Role: The Cyber Security Intern will assist in performing ongoing cyber security operations tasks and help engineer and maintain security solutions across the enterprise. The intern will learn and help improve Forrester's cyber security posture by both proactively and reactively responding to security incidents, data breach incidents, phishing attempts, malware attempts, and system's availability compromise by monitoring and analyzing logs and alerts from different log sources. The intern will learn and perform threat and vulnerability analysis on Forrester IT infrastructure including cloud networks in AWS and Azure. The intern will learn and help investigate incidents. The CSE must stay current with emerging cyberthreats through security bulletins, external peer groups, and information security circles.

Requirements

Interested in network, host, and cloud-based security, attack techniques, analysis, and investigation.
Interested in performing SIEM analytics.
Willingness to analyze a variety of logs coming from cloud, network or endpoint devices, including logs from AWS and Azure.
Some knowledge of cloud security monitoring and in advanced cloud log analytics.
Strong curiosity and ability to continuously question every process and technology to identify security risk and provide mitigations.
Passionate about vulnerability, intrusion, and incident assessment, remediation, and management skills.
Some knowledge of security technologies (e.g., AV, IDS/IPS, NGFW, SIEM, WAF, DLP, encryption certification management and malware analysis and protection), with a commitment to keep current with the latest developments in this field.
Some understanding of identity management/authorization and authentication (e.g., SSL, IPSec, PKI, SAML, Kerberos, LDAP).
Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills driven by a logical, methodical approach.
Degree or certification in cyber security preferred.
Must have a thirst for exploring new technologies to understand both the risks and rewards.
Willing to occasionally work late hours/weekends and be on call for incidents or urgent projects.
Someone who is transparent and open to feedback.
A sense of urgency without sacrificing quality.
A collaborative team player with high standards and ethics.

Nice To Haves

Degree or certification in cyber security preferred.

Responsibilities

Detect, triage, analyze, and respond to cyberattacks and other malicious activities such as intrusion attempts, DDoS, malware distribution, phishing attacks, etc. originating from OR targeted toward Forrester.
Examine malicious code (malware), attack vectors, network communication methods, analyze threats against target systems and networks, and determine vulnerabilities
Proactive threat hunting, blue teaming, performing exploit and vulnerability research, all to find and close loopholes exploited by bad actors.
Contribute to designing, implementing, and managing security incident and vulnerability management and reporting.

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