Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

This is an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated individual to gain practical experience in cybersecurity. The following is a list of cybersecurity related areas that you might be introduce to during the internship program:

1. Cybersecurity Policy

· Reviewing, and implementing changes to policies, standards, and procedures

· Updating and monitoring the Policy SharePoint site.

· Monitoring compliance with security policies across the State of TN

2. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR):

· Assist in the maintenance and improvement of BCDR security policies, procedures, and guidelines

· Support the implementation and monitoring of BCDR security controls and technologies

· Contribute to the development and implementation of business continuity and disaster recovery plans

3. Data Privacy

In an increasing digital world, Tennessee state government handles vast amounts of sensitive data. Building a robust data privacy program is crucial to protect this information and maintain public trust.

· Will be part of the building process, working on the data privacy website by keeping it populated with knowledgeable information to help state employees protect citizen data.

· Will be part of daily meetings with agencies and legal teams as we discuss how state data needs to be handled if they are dealing with outside vendors who will store our data.

· Work closely with security to ensure that data classified as sensitive is being secured with proper data protection controls.

· Review any industry trends regarding types of data breaches we are seeing in the government space that we may need to be concerned about.

· Help to rebuild the data privacy SharePoint with data privacy audits. 

4. Vulnerability Management and Application Security

· Scan enterprise systems for vulnerabilities and compliance settings, research impact of new vulnerabilities, ensure awareness of vulnerabilities to agency partners 

· Perform application assessments and penetration testing 

· Provide general security guidance and consulting to agency partners 

5. Security Incident Response

· Threat intelligence and threat hunting, using security tools and resources for investigating security incidents, and assisting the team with Security related projects.

· Assisting the team with analyzing log events for Security offenses, events, and incidents generated by either Security tools and/or reported by State of Tennessee Customers.

6. Compliance and Audit

· Will work with internal and external personnel to facilitate roll out of compliance processes and train end users to interact with the system and educate them on the processes.

· Process administrative tasks using Microsoft Word and Excel at the direction of the Compliance Officer.

7. Cybersecurity Program Management

The intern will support the team on a number of process improvement initiatives including:

· Cybersecurity content repositories and websites improvement

· Coordination with internal and external stakeholders

· Reviewing of service requests and assist in prioritization

· Coordinate process improvement related project activities

For over 16 years, Brooksource has established and maintained relationships that are designed to meet your IT staffing needs. Whether it’s contract, contract-to-hire, or permanent placement work, we customise our search based upon your company’s unique initiatives, culture and technologies. With our national team of recruiters placed at 21 major hubs around the nation Brooksource finds the people best-suited for your business. When you work with us, we work with you. That’s the Brooksource promise.

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