AT A GLANCE

• You're a motivated rising junior or above student with a 3.0 GPA or higher seeking a degree in one of the following areas listed below from an accredited college or university:

  • Information Technology

• This is a learning-intensive program designed to give you essential business insights and hands-on experience in your field of choice. It's a full-time, 10-week commitment from JUNE 2, 2021 through AUGUST 6, 2021.

• Benefits include professional development sessions, networking opportunities, and mentorship.

THE SPECTRUM INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE

You have clear aspirations and are seeking a summer internship program that will help you meet them. Find it at Spectrum, named one of the Top 100 Internship Programs in the United States by WayUp.

Our internships are designed to provide:

• Opportunities to gain new skills and elevate the ones you already have, all in a robust and forward-thinking business setting.
• First-rate, hands-on experience in the telecommunications industry.
• Opportunities to connect you with people who can give you a better understanding of the industry and help you accomplish real goals you can add to your résumé, this includes assigning you a formal mentor and interactions with senior executives.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT IN THIS ROLE

As a Spectrum Intern, you'll be essential to two teams - your respective department and your Intern peer group. Department and team-focused projects account for about 80% of your schedule. You'll spend the other 20% on professional development sessions and networking activities, including the Kickoff Conference on June 2, webinars, community service, cross-functional project, and final presentations.

Internship responsibilities may include

This position will be working with Spectrum's IT Security Incident Response team. They will have the opportunity to survey security info and produce a daily bulletin of the items that are most important for Spectrum and that they feel will be most helpful to the team. They will shadow Tier II and Tier III in responding to and remediating security alerts on workstations and servers. They will create a quiz for the team on the Incident Handling Guide. They will sit on the phone bridge when we have a live incident that we are fighting as a team. They will shadow our Tier IV on conducting computer forensics. They will participate in the morning sync up everyday in which we review current issues and look for opportunities to collaborate on investigations. They will research relevant threat actors and malware and conduct threat hunting. They will present their research to the team and through leadership up to the VP level.

HERE'S WHAT IT TAKES TO GET STARTED

Required qualifications

• Must be currently enrolled in an accredited College or University completing a Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Degree
• Must have at least a 3.0 GPA or greater in current program
• Ability to travel locally to Spectrum Intern development events and activities throughout the program
• Authorization to work in the U.S. without restrictions or need for future sponsorship

Preferred qualifications

• Knowledge of basic security principles (Confidentiality, Availability, Authentication, Integrity, Access control, Privacy, Non-repudiation
• Knowledge of vulnerability and vulnerability management (physical security, network protocol vulnerabilities, software vulnerabilities, configuration vulnerabilities)
• Knowledge of network protocols (OSI model, IP/TCP/UDP/ICMP/ARP etc, TFTP/FTP/HTTP/SNMP/SMTP/SSH/SMB/DHCP/DNS etc)
• Knowledge of Operating Systems, Windows/Mac/Linux (security configuration options, logging and audit abilities, permissions)
• Knowledge of Malicious code (methods of delivery, propagation, persistence, communication, analysis methods)
• Programming/Scripting (Powershell, Python, Shell/Bash)
• Forensics (memory analysis, filesystem forensics, operating system artifacts, application artifacts)

For more information on Spectrum's benefits, please click here .

Charter Communications, Inc. is a leading broadband connectivity company and cable operator serving more than 32 million customers in 41 states through its Spectrum brand. Over an advanced communications network, the company offers a full range of state-of-the-art residential and business services including Spectrum Internet®, TV, Mobile and Voice.