NYC Cybersecurity Advanced Externship

Industry Challenge: Threat Analysis

Welcome to your new cyber team! You and your classmates are joining an elite Cyber investigative team supporting governments, companies and citizens. You will be introduced to your cyber leadership and will be presented with major Cyber hacks that have real consequences.  Your team needs to work efficiently to understand which priorities to focus on and how best to mitigate the attacks.

Industry Challenge: System Hardening

Stay ahead of bad actors working to disrupt major company websites and their customers through malicious code. Working with your team under guidance from industry professionals, find out where potential threats exist and who tampered with the website source code. Debrief with your team and present a system hardening plan to leadership and ensure your client's systems are safe.

Industry Challenge: A New Danger

Just before the holidays, cyber teams across the globe are scrambling to address a dangerous new zero-day.  Nicknamed "Log4Shell," this vulnerability is ubiquitous and can be found in the darkest corners of an organization’s infrastructure. The Department of Homeland Security has said this is “one of the most critical cyber vulnerabilities ever encountered.” The threat is that hackers will use a reverse shell, allowing the attackers to remotely control a targeted computer. Threat actors are now scanning the internet looking for vulnerable machines. To mitigate this threat, you and your team must work together and enumerate where log4j exists.

Industry Challenge: Phishing Forensics

The Chief Information Security Officer is on vacation and it's up to you and your team to deal with a phishing email that's infiltrated the company. There's no telling the damages so you have to be thorough, confident, and quick-thinking to assess the scope of the situation. There's a lot of people looking for answers and they're all coming to you to figure this out. Learn how to navigate a crisis in this exciting Cyber Challenge.

Industry Challenge: Boardroom Conversation and Interviews

Your role on your elite investigative team is winding down. Your CISO and other leadership wants your team to join them in the boardroom for a formal debrief of each threat you’ve mitigated. They will want to know what happened, your thought process, and how your team solved the major problems. Compile your thoughts into a short presentation for your boardroom debrief and strategize with your team on how best to handle this conversation.