Cybersecurity student opportunities

In our Cybersecurity team, you’ll help organisations identify what technology assets are important to them, protect those assets, and detect, respond to, and recover from cyber security incidents all while building your career.
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What is Cybersecurity?

We help organisations reduce the likelihood and/or impact of a cyber incident. Our work enables organisations to focus on the business activities by protecting them to keep the lights on, as cyber security practices protect the organisation from business disruption caused by a cyber-attack.

We enable organisations to do the work they are designed to do. Businesses, government agencies, and non-profits all require cyber security services to ensure that they are able to operate without cyber intrusion.

We are the largest cybersecurity organisation in Australia and work across all key market sectors including financial institutes, telecommunications, healthcare, mining and metals, consumer markets and more.

You could be working in one of the following teams:

  • Core Cybersecurity
  • FSO Cybersecurity
    • Advanced Security Centre
    • Blue Team
    • AEET (Security Architecture, engineering and emerging tech)
    • EY Identity
    • SRCR (Security Strategy risk, compliance and resilience)
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What could you be doing?

  • Interact with clients to understand their cybersecurity capabilities and provide advice for ways to uplift their capabilities
  • Help clients understand their cyber threats and risks, and provide advice for ways to minimise threats and risks
  • Assess an organisation’s cybersecurity maturity and provide advice for ways to increase maturity
  • Work with project teams to research and recommend best practice cybersecurity
  • Design and implement cyber security tools and practices to protect the client’s technology assets
  • Help transform the cyber landscape of organisations through designing and implementing new tools to enhance their protection and detection capabilities
  • You may have the opportunity to travel to client sites in other parts of the country

What will you bring to the team?

  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Strong english writing (business writing) skills
  • Resilience
  • Eagerness to learn
  • Interest in cyber security and motivation to pursue certifications
  • Time Management skills and ability to meet deadlines

Your career journey in Cybersecurity

As a graduate, you’ll be part of our 12-month graduate development program that has been developed for graduates in all service lines, and is focused on connection, learning and celebration.

The program will provide you with the opportunity to network with your peers from other service lines and geographies. Running in parallel to your technical learning, you will develop leadership skills to become a successful graduate, and as you grow as a transformative leader.

As a Cybersecurity graduate, you’ll participate in our technology framework to assist with your career progression.

As a vacationer, after our company induction, you’ll start developing an understanding of how our Cybersecurity teams work and will be ready to work alongside teams on real client projects. You’ll meet other new vacationers from your office.

Your buddy and your counsellor will help you learn your way around the organisation, set your goals and plan your development while you’re here. You'll be well looked after with ongoing learning throughout the Vacationer Program with sessions facilitated by our Learning and Development team, Campus Recruitment team and service line specific training. The Vacationer Program is a great way to gain valuable audit experience, skills and networks to start building your career.

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