Department of Civil Service

Description:

1.Cyber Security

ITS is responsible for safeguarding state government information assets and infrastructure; identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities; detecting, responding and recovering from cyber incidents; and promoting cyber awareness and education.

Internships focus on security mission areas such as:

* Enterprise Governance, Risk Management and Compliance;
* Platform and Network Security; Web Application Security;
* Cyber Command Center;
* Awareness and Training; or
* Portfolio Management.

Students placed in cyber security internships may assist with projects, activities and tasks related to the above mission areas, which may include but not be limited to:

· Performing risk management activities
· Facilitating risk and compliance assessments
· Developing security policies and standards
· Identifying and analyzing malicious code
· Vulnerability scanning
· Forensics analysis
· Incident handling
· Intrusion detection and prevention

Students may also:
· conduct research on security related topics;
· assist with the development of presentations, materials for training, or documents for distribution; and
· collect and track information.

Preferred candidates would be enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree program in an accredited university with a major in Information Assurance, Information Technology, Cyber Security Management, Digital Forensics, Computer Science, or related field and possess the following skills:

* Strong analytical and problem solving skills
* Organizational skills
* Strong written and verbal communication skills

Note: Please indicate your specific skills in your cover letter to be considered for internships with matching requirements.

2. Application Development

Students placed in internships with an application development focus may participate in research, design, development, testing, modification, consolidation, re-engineering/modernization, and/or maintenance, of applications essential to improving services to the citizens of New York State. Many of these systems you may be familiar with from the user perspective such as:

· NYS Department of Motor Vehicle systems
· Electronic Health and Medical Record systems
· NYS Parks Operations Management system
Preferred candidates would have a concentration in Computer Science or a related field and possess the following skills:

* Strong analytical and reasoning skills
* Strong written and oral communication skills
* Knowledge of any one or more of the following:
- .NET Client programming (VB, C#)
- .NET Web programming (C#)
- Oracle Database programming (PL/SQL)
- MS SQL Server (T-SQL)
- SQL language
- HTML
- JQuery
- Java
- Javascript
- COBOL
- Mobile applications
- Technical writing

Note: Please indicate your specific skills in your cover letter to be considered for internships with matching requirements.

Skills:

Data administration/sciences

Business insight

Organizational skills

Strong interpersonal skills

Strong Communication skills

Internship Areas: Engineering, Information Technology