Internship, Ethical Hacker (6 Months)

Prudential Hong Kong Limited; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 13,000 - 20,000; Full time

Job summary

Prudential Services Asia offers an internship in Ethical Hacking in Kuala Lumpur. You will learn end-to-end penetration testing, coordinating requests, and delivering quality reports under guidance. The role emphasizes automation, staying updated on threats, and responsible testing within a financial services context.

The program seeks candidates with strong English, analytical skills, and an eagerness to learn in a globally connected security team.

Qualifications

• Good reading, written and spoken proficiency in English.

Responsibilities

• Learn to coordinate, manage, and organize the incoming penetration testing requests
• Learn to review and deliver quality penetration testing report.
• Learn to automate boring routine tasks and make existing process faster & better.
• Learn to perform penetration tests on at least one of the domains - network infrastructure, web application/services, mobile applications, and wireless network
• Learn to search for weaknesses in common software, proprietary systems, and third-party libraries/dependencies.
• Learn to research, review, and provide feedback for security fixes
• Learn to be sensitive in corporate consideration when performing testing, ranking vulnerabilities, and reporting
• Learn to stay updated on the latest malware and security threats

Skills

Programming / Scripting

Job description

Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people’s career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed. Prudential Services Asia (PSA) group-wide shared services hub for the Prudential plc resides in Malaysia. Group Information Security and Privacy (GISP), is a function primarily focusing on IT Security and Privacy, across Asia, London and Africa. It has staff in Singapore, Malaysia, HK, London and more recently in Africa. Ethical-Hacking and Penetration Testing (EPT) team focus on delivering hacking and penetration testing (pentest) services to Prudential businesses. In this internship program, you would experience being part of the industrial-standard IT security services provider to business all over the world. Importantly, we giving the opportunity to hands-on the pentest process end-to-end from scoping to result delivery to business in one of the top leading IT security shared services in financial institution. We are very much welcome applicants who hate the boring routine tasks and capable do thing in the most simplest way yet align to the given rules.

Job Title

Internship in Ethical Hacker Prudential Services Asia: Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Role Purpose

Learn to manage and operate penetration end-to-end

Skills required

• Good skill in programming and/or scripting

Responsibilities

• Learn to coordinate, manage, and organize the incoming penetration testing requests
• Learn to review and deliver quality penetration testing report.
• Learn to automate boring routine tasks and make existing process faster & better.
• Learn to perform penetration tests on at least one of the domains - network infrastructure, web application/services, mobile applications, and wireless network
• Learn to search for weaknesses in common software, proprietary systems, and third-party libraries/dependencies.
• Learn to research, review, and provide feedback for security fixes
• Learn to be sensitive in corporate consideration when performing testing, ranking vulnerabilities, and reporting
• Learn to stay updated on the latest malware and security threats

Requirements

• Mandatory Language Skill: Good reading, written and spoken proficiency in English
• Attitude: Organized, good with analytical skill and problem solving

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.

We are Prudential. For every life, we are partners. For every future, we are protectors. Prudential plc provides life and health insurance and asset management to 17 million customers across 20 markets in Asia and Africa. We are headquartered in Hong Kong and have dual primary listings on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong and the London Stock Exchange. We are focused on four strategic regions: Greater China, ASEAN, India and Africa. Our customers are served by around 55,000 agents and more than 200 bank partners. Prudential plc is not affiliated in any manner with Prudential Financial, Inc., a company whose principal place of business is in the United States of America or with the Prudential Assurance Company, a subsidiary of M&G plc, a company incorporated in the United Kingdom. Find out more at www.prudentialplc.com