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Focus on your career goals.
As a college student, thinking about your future can be daunting. We’re here to help. Adobe presents the Adobe Cyber Security internship program.
Designed for students looking to enrich their experience fostering an environment where security students can explore the security arena.
Cyber Security Teams.
As a part of our program, you will have the opportunity to partner closely with Engineering and Security teams. Take a peek at the teams you may work with.
Tech GRC
The mission of Adobe’s Technology Governance, Risk, and Compliance (Tech GRC) team is to create one voice for technology compliance across Adobe and to enable Adobe business exapansion through meeting global security compliance requirements. In order to achieve this mission, Tech GRC aims to mature our Common Controls Framework (CCF) adoption and implementation across all of Adobe through automation.
CCF Assurance: a) Solve security compliance challenges by participating in compliance evaluation efforts b) Get an understanding of Adobe Common Controls Framework and control environment c) Collaborate with core Tech GRC team members to contribute to process efficiencies and control testing for critical security compliance controls. d) Shadow in external audit engagements and learn audit processes.
CCF Automation: We utilize NodeJS, ReactJS, and incorporate some Python in our software development. The internship project offers a comprehensive development experience, encompassing tasks in front-end and back-end development, API integrations, and more. If the intern is ready to take on the challenge, they may even have the opportunity to lead the project with the guidance and support of the team.
Governance: Support program initiatives around Technology policy and standards. Learn and participate in the renewal process. Help with revamping existing policy/standards, gaining visibility into how large enterprises encourage alignment around company-wide operations.
Enterprise Resilience: Support program initiatives around BCDR and annual compliance requirements for Business Impact Analysis( BIA) and Business Continuity and Disaster Recover (BCDR) exercise.
Product and Software Security
"We make Security easy, effective and delightful... by removing the guesswork of adversaries." The Product and Software Security team was established in support of the cloud transformation at Adobe. The team is chartered to bring about a DevSecOps culture shift by enabling and empowering Adobe employees in their quest to make safer software sooner, increasing customer delight through transparency, and by providing a unique adversary perspective to increase remediation precision for all Adobe defenders to leverage."
DevSecOps Solutions: Support the Adobe Web Application Firewall (WAF) project. Applicants may be able to participate in activities related to a company-wide rollout of more secure web application firewalls, including research next-Gen WAF capabilities and make recommendations on how Adobe can adopt those effectively, work on automation to streamline WAF policies deployment and management, build a WAF adoption dashboard (backend and frontend).
Cyber Operations
Cyber Operations protects and defends Adobe Infrastructure, Data, and People by working on programmatic security governance. The Cloud Security Research team looks at how to keep Adobe's cloud footprint secure by conducting Research on in-the-wild threats to detect Indicator of Compromise (IOCs), Indicators of Attacks (IOAs) through data in our infrastructure environment.
Cloud Security Research: Participate in data-driven security initiatives and Cloud Security Research, focused on detecting Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) and Indicators of Attack (IOAs) in Adobe's cloud environment, then helping to derive meaningful security functional metrics to help Security Leadership and product teams understand security gaps in Adobe's cloud infrastructure.
Enterprise Security: Support delivery of our Stronger Authentication initiative. Potential projects: working on automation around vendor device security, using Caspian to correlate data around user authentication and device authentication to improve phishing-resistant MFA, they could be working on initial DLP deployment to devices and verifying policies.
Threat Hunt: Log data analysis via traditional or advanced analytical models. Work with Endpoint, network, cloud logs to develop forensic use cases and triage findings. Assist in the development of detections to further help Security Operations Center (SOC) operations identify future activity.
Eligibility criteria.
In order to apply, you must be currently enrolled in an engineering program, with a target graduation date between December 2024 - May 2025. Required qualifications: A) On track to complete at minimum a bachelor's degree; open to all computer science majors.
- Must be able to commit approximately 15 hours per week from March 25th, 2024 – May 3rd, 2024.
- Must be able to commit approximately 40 hours per week from May 28th, 2024 – August 16, 2024, for hybrid work (Students will be required to come into the office at least 2 times a week).
- Must be leaders on campus and show academic excellence. .
- Must be passionate about continuous learning and eager to take your student life to the next level.
- Must have great communication, organization, collaboration and problem-solving skills.
- Must have received a high school diploma.
Questions? We have answers.
When do applications close? Applications are open until Friday, November 10th at 11:59 pm ET.
How long is the internship? Our program has two parts. The spring portion will be 5-weeks virtually starting March 25th. The summer portion will start May 28th and will be 12 weeks. It is a paid internship.
Do students have to participate in both the winter and summer internships? To apply, students must be available/willing to participate in both parts of the internship.
Is this opportunity part-time or full-time? The spring portion of the internship is part-time (15 Hours). The summer portion is full-time.
Is this a paid internship? Yes, all our internships are paid. We offer competitive pay to all our interns.
Is this a virtual or in-person internship? The 2024 Adobe Internship Program will utilize both the virtual and hybrid models. The spring internship will be virtual, while the summer internship will be a hybrid model in Mclean Virginia, and San Jose California. Students will be required to come into the office at least 2 times a week.
Could this internship lead to a full-time role? Yes! Adobe has a robust university graduate program. Select interns who thrive at Adobe will be offered full-time roles.
Does Adobe provide any commuter benefits? Yes, Commute Alternatives provides all interns with a $450 commute subsidy card to take care of all your commuting needs while you are at Adobe
Future-proof your career and apply now for the Adobe Cyber Security Internship. The application is open until Friday, November 10, 2023 at 11:59pm ET.