Beginning in July, students in groups of 4-5 will spend around 80 hours assisting your organization to synthesize theories and frameworks that can inform the understanding of your problem, analyze and test your organization's technical architecture to identify vulnerabilities, prevent exploitation, and protect it against any security breach.

Students have strong skills in coding, networking, vulnerability analysis, operating systems internals and exploitation, security policies, penetration testing, writing technical reports and basics of malware analysis, IoT and Wireless security.

At the end of the project, the students will submit their key findings and/or applications developed to your organization.

Project examples may include but are not limited to:

• Identify systems and applications vulnerabilities and generate reports
• Manage security incidents
• Automate processes to detect vulnerabilities, prevent exploitation and attacks and mitigate risks
• Networking and applications Penetration Testing
• Assist with reviewing and creating cybersecurity policies
• Design & deliver cybersecurity awareness training
• Research & deliver a risk assessment for the organization
• Analyze the technical architecture of an organization and deliver a report on how to improve it to mitigate risks
• Implement infrastructure and tools to log and monitor systems to detect threats and protect the organization against system and data breaches

Project Timeline:

The project is expected to go into two phases as follows:

1. Phase 1 (June 15 - July 8): Students are focused on completing coursework in their full-time training program. Once a project is matched with a student project team, we expect that during this phase the initial project communications and sharing of project materials/resources can begin to ensure project objectives are agreed upon before starting Phase 2.
2. Phase 2 (July 11 - 29): Students have completed their coursework and will now be focused and working full time on your project.

Important notes:

• Please set clear project objectives with your student project team. Given the short timeframes, the goal/objective of the proposed project should be relatively simple.
• Your organization must offer a Non-disclosure agreement (NDA). The agreement should allow the students to show what they have done in the project and demonstrate samples of the work done. Confidential information can be removed.
• An IP agreement should be provided by your organization and signed by the students and a representative from your organization.
• If no IP or NDA is required for the project, please offer this in writing to the students to avoid future conflicts.