Cyber Investigations Intern

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Job Description

MITRE leverages deep technical knowledge to perform defensive cyber operations, enable offensive objectives, and conduct adversary emulation. We develop technologies, practices, and approaches to protect critical infrastructure from malicious cyber or non-kinetic attack or disruption. We help our customers architect, assess, and acquire safe, secure, and resilient cyber systems that meet their operational needs

As an Intern working in cyber or information security, you will work with a team to apply your knowledge and gain experience with one or more of the following:

• Adversary emulation
• Deception and adversary engagement
• Cyber effects and reverse engineering
• Cyber forensics
• Cyber threat intelligence
• Operational technology engineering and response
• Internet of Things and mobile device security
• Engineering and architecting safe, secure, and resilient systems
• Cyber policy
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• Must be a student enrolled full-time in an accredited degree-seeking program in Cyber or Information Security or a related degree and continue to be enrolled full-time the semester following the internship.
• Knowledge of cyber security principles, tools and devices, such as WireShark, ELK, and Splunk.
• Knowledge of cyber security systems and products
• Knowledge of cyber security operations
• Background and experience in various cybersecurity related areas, including but not limited to networking, programming, IoT devices, cyber operations and cryptocurrency
• Sustained excellence in academic performance
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of programming languages such as Python, Java or C
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience having applied cybersecurity learning to an internship or research/lab position
• Experience working with design recovery, software analysis, and/or reverse engineering tools
• Experience using cyber security systems and products
• Experience in cyber security operations
• Experience developing cyber policy
• Proficiency in one or more of the following--Java, Python, XML, HTML, C#, Objective C; database design & development including SQL
• Demonstrated problem-solving abilities
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret data effectively
• Demonstrated interest in serving the public
  
  

Clearance: In addition to passing MITRE’s employment background check, you may be submitted for a U.S. Government Security clearance. This is determined by the Department of Defense’s adjudicative guidelines for receiving a clearance, to include U.S. citizenship. Other jobs may require vetting for various levels of agency public trust, fitness, suitability, controlled access, and special programs access determination consistent with the work program to which you are assigned.

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Secret

Work Location Type:

Onsite

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