Cyber Security - Internship

Create your own future

Learning about Security Monitoring, SOC, our offensive side (red team), applying what you learn and continuously improving our cyber resilience through Purple teaming. That is how you will use your talents as a Cyber Security Intern at Van Lanschot Kempen.

Several assignments/tasks are possible for this internship:

• Threat hunting: We currently have a threat hunting process in place, but we want to increase this process's maturity with actionable cases. This internship can investigate how we can further improve our Threat Hunting based on best practices and provide a basis from where we start our new threat-hunting journey. This would include looking into what approaches we can take for some threats and implementing some hunting queries.
• Actionable Threat Intelligence: There is a lot of information available from different sources on cyber threats, attacks and vulnerabilities. But the question that we have is how we can transform this intel into valuable information that we can use in our day-to-day operations. This can help us further improve the knowledge of the actors that have an interest in VLK. This knowledge can serve as input for new detections and hunting cases.
• SOC Automation: The analysts in our Security Operations Center investigate cyber incidents daily. To improve the value of those incidents, we want to enrich the incident with valuable information or even go one step further and fully automate some incidents' investigation. The internship can investigate what we can automate and how we can most benefit from automation.
• MISP Implementation: MISP is a solution for sharing indicators of compromise and threats. The blue team likes to include this information in their day-to-day work to strengthen our defenses further and to act on specific IOCs. This internship would dive into what MISP is and how we can best benefit from this solution to implement some of those feeds.
• OpenAI & Malware development: As an intern on our Red Team, you will put yourself in the mind of an "attacker". You will collaborate with our team of security experts to use AI to create malware. In this assignment, you will work on developing technologies to circumvent antivirus products, using openAI.
• Mobile application pentesting: As an intern on the red team, you will work on improving our mobile pentesting methodologies and tools. The aim of this internship is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of our mobile pen testing, so that we can provide better security recommendations to our stakeholders.

Your talents

Curiosity, persistency and a touch of suspiciousness. This is how we can best describe you in the Cyber Security internship. Talents that you use to guide our customers in a constantly changing world every day. By thinking out of the box and asking questions. And all will be well if you also help us in the mission to safeguard the assets and information of our clients.

In addition:

• You are pursuing a relevant degree in computer science, cyber security or similar;
• You have basic knowledge of IT concepts, such as network technology, MS Active Directory, MS Operating systems and/or Azure;
• You have knowledge of (or want to learn) one popular query language (such as KQL);
• You have experience with the Linux operating system, for example: (Kali Linux) and are able to work from a console;
• For the malware development assignment, you have knowledge and (starting) experience with programming languages such as C#/,.NET, Python and or C++;
• For the password cracking assignment, you have knowledge and experience with programming/script languages such as Python and Bash;
• For the mobile application pentesting assignment, you need knowledge and experience with developing applications for iOS and/or Android;
• You are available for a minimum of 5 months for a minimum of 32 hours per week;
• You are a critical thinker;
• You have good mastery of English, both oral and written.

Move ahead at Van Lanschot Kempen

Investing in a more future-oriented, sustainable, and data-driven way with various clients. Both nationally and internationally. With over 300 years of experience, we make this ambition a reality at Van Lanschot Kempen. We do this with some 2,000 colleagues in various fields of expertise.

Within 'IT Platforms and Security' (ITP&S) there is an open culture, where talent is constantly given the opportunity to make an impact quickly. ITP&S offers challenges to ambitious professionals in an environment that reinvents itself every day. ITP&S is part of Digital, Advanced Analytics & Technology. The teams within ITP&S are technically oriented and constantly looking for added value to be relevant for our business. This makes us the link between IT and the business. We excel in our services and we are proud of it!

You will be part of our Security Operations Center (SOC). Our SOC is the early warning system of cyber security. It monitors for suspicious traffic or login attempts on our network, possible hacking attempts and everything in between.

An organisation's degree of innovation and agility also depends on the diversity of its workforce. Our differences make us stronger together. We promote an inclusive work environment where all colleagues feel at home. With us, you can be yourself. And we are proud of that.

Turning talent into value!

That's what we do! Because if you add value, then of course you can expect the same from us. A good work-life balance with our 'hybrid way of working' is a good example of that. In the Cyber Security internship, you will also be given:

• An internship allowance of € 650 gross per month, based on 40 hours per week;
• A company laptop and first access to the most innovative tools/products;
• Flexible working hours with the possibility to work from home with your supervisor’s agreement;
• An internship supervisor who personally guides you during your internship and is always ready to provide feedback;
• A lot of responsibility and a large amount of autonomy;
• An environment to learn, make mistakes and develop yourself;
• The opportunity to have an impact in one of the largest Wealth Managers in the Benelux.