Education Horizons - Cybersecurity Intern
Perth, WA
About Us
Education Horizons is a leading Australian EdTech provider that provides K-12 schools with integrated, end-to-end teaching, learning, and school management software solutions. Our solutions support students, parents/guardians, staff, and the broader school community globally.
Role Responsibilities
- Acts as an SME in the application security space
- Partners with engineering and product teams to ensure adequate consideration of modern application security techniques at all stages of the product pipeline
- Keeps track of vulnerabilities and threats
- Conducts risk analysis in collaboration with the Head of Information Security and other key stakeholders
- Contributes to security and related policies
- Manage DAST program across multiple products
- Perform CIS benchmarking and remediation across cloud estate
Required skills/knowledge
- A keen interest in App Sec, Pen Testing, and ethical hacking
- Understanding of modern application security practices, SAST, DAST, SCA, API testing
- A good understanding of security standards such as OWASP, NIST, CIS, and the Essential 8
- Knowledge of key web application risks (XSS, CORS, Outdate libraries, SQL Injection, HSTS, etc)
- Ability to perform analysis of security risks and develop mitigation strategies
- Understanding of incident management, including security incidents
Desired Skills
- User empathy for finding hidden use cases and facilitating collaboration between the teams
- Proven ability to communicate technical issues with non-technical and non-security focused people
- Ability to prioritise competing work priorities
- Ability to research complex technical solutions
Qualifications
Must be working towards an Australian Computer Science Degree, preferably majoring in Cybersecurity.
This role amounts to $34,000 tax-free for an Undergraduate working full-time for six months.
