Penetration Testing Intern

About Chennai Cybersecurity:

Products include endpoint protection, email security and a cloud posture management platform. Large incident response engagements can involve 20 or more responders working in shifts for weeks. We started in 1986 and have grown to about 240 people.

About the role:

Remote internship on the Governance and Compliance team. You will work on our own systems only, with written permission and a clear scope for any testing. Remote within India. The team meets in Chennai once a quarter, travel covered.

Day to day:

• Write clear findings with severity, impact and steps to fix
• Update security policies and runbooks in Confluence
• Triage phishing emails reported by staff and update block lists
• Track open vulnerabilities in Jira and follow up with owners on fixes
• Monitor dependency alerts from Dependabot and Snyk
• Review alerts in our SIEM (Wazuh or Splunk) and escalate anything suspicious

Requirements:

• Can commit full time, from home, for the whole internship
• Have a working laptop and a stable internet connection
• Own laptop that can run a virtual machine, and a stable internet connection
• Comfortable on the Linux command line
• Pursuing a degree in Computer Science, IT, Cyber Security or a related field, graduating in 2027
• Basic knowledge of common web attacks such as XSS, SQL injection and CSRF
• Strong sense of ethics. You will see sensitive data and must stay strictly within scope

Preferred:

• Experience with Wireshark, Nmap or Burp Suite

What you get out of it:

• You will work on real security alerts and vulnerability findings, not lab exercises
• How audit evidence, policies and technical controls fit together
• Mentoring from a security engineer with weekly check-ins
• Writing findings that engineers can fix without a long back-and-forth

Duration: 1 month

Start date: Within 2 weeks

Stipend: ₹26,000 - ₹36,000 monthly

What we offer:

• Mentorship from senior team members
• Performance bonus
• Certificate

Candidates must be eligible to work in.

Duration: 1 month. Start: Within 2 weeks.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Chennai Cybersecurity.