Cybersecurity & Tech Risk Intern — Summer 2027

Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH); Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 28,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

BBHcares volunteering

Mentorship by industry leaders

Professional development workshops

Job summary

BBH’s 2027 Technology Summer Internship – Cybersecurity & Technology Risk offers a hands-on 10-week program designed to illuminate how technology supports fast-paced financial markets and BBH’s critical business needs. You’ll be fully immersed in BBH’s culture, work on meaningful projects, and be mentored by industry leaders who invest in your growth.

Join BBH to gain experience in threat intelligence, incident response, secure coding, and risk prioritization, while collaborating with Security

Qualifications

• Current junior in college, entering senior year in fall of 2027 with a background in and passion for Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related field
• Strong academic achievement, with a GPA of 3.3 or higher preferred
• Strong analytical, research, and problem-solving skills
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical issues clearly
• Leadership, curiosity, initiative, sound judgment, collaboration, and the ability to manage multiple priorities
• Intermediate proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint

Responsibilities

• Use scanning, monitoring, detection, and analytics tools to identify vulnerabilities, suspicious activity, configuration risks, and emerging cyber threats
• Support security investigations, alert triage, incident documentation, escalation, containment, recovery, and prevention activities
• Analyze threat actors, campaigns, malware, phishing, identity attacks, vulnerabilities, indicators of compromise, and adversary techniques
• Contribute to threat intelligence assessments, briefings, threat hunting preparation, and risk-based prioritization
• Support web and network defense through proxy and Secure Web Gateway controls, URL filtering, traffic analysis, content inspection, and data exfiltration prevention
• Assist with application and configuration security, including secure coding, code vulnerability analysis, control testing, hardening, and remediation tracking
• Collaborate with Security Operations, Cyber Incident Management, Vulnerability Management, Red Team, infrastructure, application, risk, and vendor teams
• Help document controls and procedures and support audit, regulatory, metrics, and evidence needs
• Recommend practices that strengthen defenses, reduce risk, and improve cybersecurity program maturity

Skills

Analytical skills

Research skills

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Leadership

Excel

PowerPoint

Education

Pursuing Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Cybersecurity, or related field

GPA 3.3+ preferred

Entering senior year Fall 2027

Tools

SIEM

EDR

IDS/IPS

Firewalls

Proxies

DLP

Job description

BBH’s 2027 Technology Summer Internship – Cybersecurity & Technology Risk offers a hands-on 10-week program designed to illuminate how technology supports fast-paced financial markets and BBH’s critical business needs. You’ll be fully immersed in BBH’s culture, work on meaningful projects, and be mentored by industry leaders who invest in your growth.

Join BBH to gain experience in threat intelligence, incident response, secure coding, and risk prioritization, while collaborating with Security