INTERNSHIP - Cyber analysis and cloud porting of tactical functionalities - M/F

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Thales is a global high-tech leader specializing in three sectors: Defense & Security, Aerospace & Space, and Cyber & Digital. It develops products and solutions that contribute to a safer, more environmentally friendly, and more inclusive world. The Group invests nearly 4 billion euros per year in Research & Development, particularly in key innovation areas such as AI, cybersecurity, quantum, cloud technologies, and 6G. Thales has nearly 81,000 employees in 68 countries.

Our commitments, your benefits

• Our technological expertise
• Our attention to employee work-life balance
• An inclusive and benevolent environment
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment (Thales Solidarity, CAC 40 ESG index, etc.)

Your daily life

The Gennevilliers Campus is the heart of design, development, and support activities for major defense systems: radio communications, resilient infrastructure networks and systems, satellite communications, collaborative combat, and cybersecurity. Located north of Paris, it is quickly accessible by public transport.

The Cyberprotection Solution Engineering department conducts security engineering studies to protect its clients' (internal to Thales) systems or products. This engineering takes various forms: security expertise, security architecture, specification engineering, and applies to objects of very diverse sizes: from security components, to HW/SW products, up to systems, all for the purpose of protecting critical IT systems and communications. The department is heavily involved in security components.

In this context, the members of this department participate, among other things, in development work concerning the future of secure communications.

Internship topic:

Tactical interconnection networks ensure the transmission of critical information between units and a command center (C2). These networks, at the heart of military mission systems, carry sensitive data in real-time and are exposed to increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. Their evolution towards hybrid architectures, integrating the cloud for modularity, agility, and resilience, poses new cyber challenges, both technically and operationally.

Your missions

Internship objective

The internship will focus on analyzing cyber risks related to the migration of key functions of a ground-to-air interconnection network (communications, link supervision, etc.) into a secure cloud environment. The intern will also evaluate target architectures and propose a partial porting of functions to the cloud, in compliance with military cybersecurity requirements.

In this context, your missions will be:

• Understand the current architecture of the ground-to-air interconnection network.
• Identify compromise and attack risks associated with the cloud virtualization of certain functionalities (attack surface analysis, cloud/hybrid specific threats, etc.).
• Define and document applicable cybersecurity requirements.
• Prototype this porting in a representative environment, in conjunction with cybersecurity and engineering teams.
• Write technical documentation and recommendations for industrialization.

Your profile

You are currently pursuing a BAC+5 level higher education specializing in IT/Cybersecurity.

You have skills such as:

• Understanding of cyber issues in a military context
• Securing hybrid cloud environments
• Migration and virtualization of network functions
• Understanding of technical specifications
• Scientific English
• Synthesis and writing skills
• Linux OS
• Cloud/Virtualization
• Software security
• Network

A word from the team

This internship will be an opportunity for you to work in a team within an innovative company, to apply academic knowledge in an operational environment, and to develop new skills.

All our internships are conventional and subject to remuneration, the amount of which is determined according to your level of study.

Thales, a Handi-Engaged company, recognizes all talents. Diversity is our best asset. Apply and join us!