Threat Hunter Intern, Summer 2023 (Remote)

#WeAreCrowdStrike and our mission is to stop breaches. As a global leader in cybersecurity, our team changed the game. Since our inception, our market leading cloud-native platform has offered unparalleled protection against the most sophisticated cyberattacks. We’re looking for people with limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to the customer to join us in shaping the future of cybersecurity. Consistently recognized as a top workplace, CrowdStrike is committed to cultivating an inclusive, remote-first culture that offers people the autonomy and flexibility to balance the needs of work and life while taking their career to the next level. Interested in working for a company that sets the standard and leads with integrity? Join us on a mission that matters - one team, one fight.

About OverWatch

On a daily basis, the OverWatch Elite Threat Response Team develops a meaningful partnership with clients by exchanging threat intelligence with clients, providing threat briefings to diverse audiences, drafting communication around threat detections, performing hypothesis & statistical driven hunts, leading customer meetings, and acting as liaison between customers and threat hunting teams. Threat Response Analysts on the team spend their time threat hunting and engaging with clients on emerging threats, hunting operations, and what OverWatch is seeing in the threat landscape.

The OverWatch Elite team delivers a ‘White Glove’ service to augment OverWatch threat hunting and provides a personal consultative threat response experience to customers that want to engage with proactive, professional, helpful threat hunters.

To succeed as an OverWatch Threat Hunter intern you must be an adaptable team-player who loves learning. You must be familiar with threat hunting operations and possess the technical problem-solving skills that enable our customers to stop breaches. Customer service skills are critical to this role’s success.

What You'll Do

• Conducting ongoing customer environment assessments
• Hunting for threats, anomalies and cyber-related disruptions on customer endpoints
• Conducting research and presenting threat briefings to a large audience
• Performing threat analysis, deep-dives and incident assessments
• Develop high-quality customer deliverables that meet the expectations of the service OverWatch Elite provides its customers. This includes:
• Researching and assessing customer’s threats and IOCs

What You'll Need

• Knowledge of Data Science Concepts and tools is a plus
• You have basic knowledge of operating systems fundamentals (Windows, Linux, MacOS)
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Actively pursuing undergraduate or graduate degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science or related field
• Interest in Cybersecurity and\or AI
• Although CrowdStrike is a primarily remote company, collaboration is intrinsic to the success of our mission. Therefore, the strongest applicants will be those who can communicate effectively and frequently, and work well with fellow interns and employees.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• You are curious and keep up-to-date across the cybersecurity landscape
• You have the ability to think analytically and possess basic critical thinking skills to assess activity quickly and accurately

Bonus Points

• Intrusion analysis
• Threat response
• Threat hunting
• Endpoint incident response (MAC, Linux, and/or Windows)
• Prior cyber experience in any of the following:
• Basic understanding of MITRE ATT&CK techniques / sub-techniques
• Experience with big-data processing tools such as Splunk, Humio, Logstash, Kibana, etc.
• Penetration testing
• Intelligence
• Information security consulting
• Malware analysis

We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone feels seen, heard, valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. Our approach to cultivating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture is rooted in listening, learning and collective action. By embracing the diversity of our people, we achieve our best work and fuel innovation - generating the best possible outcomes for our customers and the communities they serve.

CrowdStrike is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.