Intern, Cyber Threat Intelligence

Location:

Parsippany, NJ, US, 07054

Property Name: Parsippany - 22 Sylvan Way

Req Id: 24081

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is now seeking a Intern, Cyber Threat Intelligence to join our team at the Parsippany - 22 Sylvan Way location in Parsippany, New Jersey.

Why Wyndham?

By joining Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, you will play an integral role in our mission to make hotel travel possible for all. You’ll be part of the largest hotel franchise company in the world, where we strive to deliver the best value to our owners and guests. Most importantly, you’ll be entrusted to live our unique Count on Me culture, set by our core values of integrity, accountability, inclusive, caring and fun. At Wyndham, we provide all team members the opportunity to grow through best-in-class training and career development, leadership training, mentorship opportunities and educational support. Supporting our team members is a top priority, which is why we offer competitive compensation and benefits, vacation, team member appreciation days, workplace flexibility and much more. At Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, we value and embrace a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion that supports team members of all backgrounds and experiences. We can’t wait to welcome you!

The Role

This internship will assist us with various tasks within the Advanced Threat team. The person selected will be exposed to best practices and get to use best-in-class tools to assist with the collection and production of intelligence products, triage and respond to security alerts, analyze malicious code, identify and classify threat actor activity and tradecraft and assist with the creation of custom detection rules to detect and prevent malicious activity.

What You'll Do

• Review alerts from various cybersecurity tools, classify the risk level and assist the Security Operations Center with triage and response playbooks.
• Be assigned events in our work queue and ensure any actions taken are properly documented per our standards.
• Assist the Detection Engineering team by leveraging various MITRE frameworks to classify threat actor Tools, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) leveraged during malicious operations and scams.
• Produce or deploy existing YARA, Suricata or SIGMA rules to counteract investigated threats in appropriate systems. Demonstrate how these toolsets work to detect suspicious or malicious activity.
• Perform threat intelligence research into cybercrime and nation state threat actor tradecraft, assist in the publication of threat intelligence products and profiles.
• Assist team in producing threat intelligence reports focused on informing key stakeholders on need to know activity and ongoing risk. Analyze historical threat actor activity and create reports with action items for the cybersecurity organization on steps to take to counteract the threat from the actor.
• Assist in engineering efforts to deploy new tooling and maintain sources of intelligence leveraged by the Cybersecurity Advanced Threat team.
• Analyze malicious artifacts using various tools by leveraging static and dynamic analysis techniques both in a lab environment and with malware sandbox tools.
  
  

You'll be successful if you have

• Knowledge of technical innerworkings of Windows or Linux preferred. Hands-on experience in setting up and securing a computer or home network, or has experience with dealing with malware cleanup of a computer or recovering a compromised account is a plus.
• Secondary language skills, specifically Russian or Spanish would be a big plus. Must be a capable note taker and technical speaker and writer.
  
  

Required Qualifications/Experience

• BS/MS in Cybersecurity or related fields.
• Traditional IT and cybersecurity fields as a must but someone with knowledge/interest in current events and geo-politics would be a huge plus.
• Be enrolled in an accredited college, university or trade school undergraduate or graduate degree program.
• Be a rising undergraduate senior or pursuing a graduate degree.
  
  

Company Overview

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is the world’s largest hotel franchising company by the number of properties with approximately 9,200 hotels across over 95 countries on six continents. Through our network of approximately 872,000 rooms appealing to the everyday traveler, Wyndham commands a leading presence in the hospitality industry. Headquartered in Parsippany, N.J. with offices around the world in London, Shanghai, Buenos Aires, Dubai and more, Wyndham employs more than 2,000 corporate team members worldwide who are dedicated to the Company’s mission of making hotel travel possible for all. Supporting thousands of franchisees and a growing global portfolio of 24 hotel brands—think household names like Wyndham, La Quinta, Ramada, Days Inn and Super 8—Wyndham team members are a widespread group of individuals with diverse interests and backgrounds. Our unique Count on Me culture, commitment to flexibility and core values of Integrity, Accountability, Inclusivity, Caring and Fun are just part of what continues to make Wyndham an award-winning best place to work.

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.

Job Location: Parsippany - 22 Sylvan Way, 22 Sylvan Way, Parsippany, New Jersey 07054

Employment Status: Full-time