Cybersecurity Intern: Audit, Hardening & Vigilance

Whisker; Auburn Hills (MI); On-site; USD 25,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Whisker in Auburn Hills, MI is seeking a Cybersecurity Intern to support audits, identify security gaps, and collaborate with IT and Engineering to propose improvements.

You will gain hands-on experience with assessments, baseline hardening, centralized logging, and vulnerability management, while helping document procedures and train teammates.

The role emphasizes learning, rapid adaptation, and maintaining confidentiality in a fast-paced environment and is onsite 4+ days a week.

Qualifications

• Pursuing or recently completed a degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Understanding of information systems security principles and technologies, including networking protocols, data encryption, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems.
• Strong problem-solving abilities to investigate and resolve security breaches or potential threats.
• Exceptional focus to monitor and analyze logs and alerts from various technologies.
• Effective verbal and written communication to collaborate with security teams and other IT departments, and to clearly report findings and recommendations.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to new technologies and evolving security standards and regulations.
• Basic understanding of programming languages and software development to identify potential vulnerabilities in code and application.
• Willingness to stay updated on the latest cyber threats and preventive measures.
• Maintains confidentiality of proprietary information.
• Ability to maintain a professional atmosphere in a fast-paced environment with numerous interactions and interruptions.
• A high degree of initiative, self-motivation, and ability to motivate others.
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with Team Members and colleagues.
• Comfortable with office pets (cats, dogs)

Responsibilities

• Assist cybersecurity audits to understand the environment, critical assets, current controls, and ownership.
• Identifies and documents security gaps and weaknesses based on audit results, assessments, and reviews.
• Works with the Cybersecurity team and IT/Engineering teams to develop proposed remediation approaches, implementation plans, and success measures.
• Supports security program initiatives as directed, such as baseline hardening efforts, centralized logging/monitoring evaluation, cloud coverage governance support, and configuration/vulnerability management activities.
• Assists with solution and vendor evaluation activities as directed, including documenting requirements, comparing options, and summarizing tradeoffs.
• Assists in implementing and validating security improvements, including monitoring/reviewing alerts and producing status updates or reports as needed.
• Supports the creation, maintenance, and organization of security documentation (findings, procedures, standards, runbooks, evidence, and reporting) to prove diligence, accountability, and consistency.
• Helps develop and deliver training or awareness content to educate team members on cybersecurity best practices, including phishing-awareness support and onboarding enablement.
• Stays updated on emerging cybersecurity threats, trends, and defensive practices to recommend practical improvements.
• Will perform additional responsibilities when required

Skills

Log analysis

Threat detection

Problem solving

Communication

Adaptability

Programming basics

Confidentiality

Team collaboration

Education

Computer Science

Cybersecurity

Information Technology

Tools

IDS

Firewalls

Data encryption

Job description

Whisker in Auburn Hills, MI is seeking a Cybersecurity Intern to support audits, identify security gaps, and collaborate with IT and Engineering to propose improvements.

You will gain hands-on experience with assessments, baseline hardening, centralized logging, and vulnerability management, while helping document procedures and train teammates.

The role emphasizes learning, rapid adaptation, and maintaining confidentiality in a fast-paced environment and is onsite 4+ days a week.