Job Description
Job Description
We are a growing cybersecurity team dedicated to advancing our cybersecurity capabilities in an ever-evolving digital landscape. Our team is passionate about protecting data and enabling organizations to protect themselves from complex cyber threats. We are looking for a motivated and curious Cyber Security Intern to join our growing team, make substantive contributions, and positively impact the security of Ridgeline, its people, and its customers.
As a Cyber Security Intern, you will work alongside experienced cybersecurity professionals and contribute to advancing our security capabilities. You will have the opportunity to support key disciplines like log analysis, detection engineering, security monitoring & remediation, and incident response. All team members, including interns, participate in activities like threat hunting, vulnerability management, and providing security recommendations to protect our and our clients' enterprise systems and networks. If you are passionate about cybersecurity and eager to learn, grow, and make a meaningful impact, we would love to meet you.
This internship will be ongoing and will blend with our summer internship cohort.
What You Will Do:
Analyze log data searching for indicators of anomalous or suspicious activity.
Create detection logic to alert on investigation-worthy activities or conditions.
Conduct research on existing and emerging cyber threats that may impact our infrastructure, information systems, or data.
Assist in evaluating external threat intelligence sources to determine company-wide risks and support threat detection efforts.
Support the team in analyzing logs and correlating data to identify suspicious or malicious behavior.
Collaborate in incident response activities, assisting with data collection and analysis during investigations.
Contribute to the development and maintenance of security documentation, policies, and procedures.
What You Will Do in the First Six Months:
Baseline log activity for a customer platform
Develop automated security alerts for a customer platform
Use machine learning algorithms to highlight deviations from baseline activity
Analyze log activity against known threat profiles
Conduct investigations into suspicious or anomalous activity
Continuously evaluate data collection strategy and recommend to improvements as necessary.
Participate in cross-training opportunities to learn about different roles within the cybersecurity team.
Assist in the development of incident response playbooks and procedures against specific adversary threats.
Collaborate with the blue team to support the development of defensive measures that help harden systems against adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
Job Tags
Part time, Summer internship,