Internship: Security Operations Center

The internship at Philips' Security Operations Center (SOC) in Best, Netherlands, focuses on enhancing operational capabilities by testing existing use cases and optimizing threat detection. The intern will conduct Breach and Attack Simulations (BAS), design cyberattack scenarios, analyze results to improve security policies, and provide mitigation recommendations. This role requires a basic understanding of security use case development, BAS concepts, attack vectors, and familiarity with BAS tools.

Must Have

• Conduct Breach and Attack Simulations (BAS) across various environments
• Design and execute realistic cyberattack scenarios to simulate the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by real-world adversaries
• Analyze and report on BAS results to help improve existing security policies, procedures, and controls
• Provide recommendations for threat mitigation and defense strategies based on simulation outcomes
• Develop and maintain documentation for BAS methodologies, procedures, and processes
• Stay up to date with the latest cybersecurity threats, attack vectors, and BAS tools
• Basic understanding of security use case development
• Basic understanding of BAS concepts
• Understanding of attack vectors, tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)
• Familiarity with BAS tools such as Cymulate, SafeBreach, AttackIQ, or similar platforms

Perks & Benefits

• Monthly full-time allowance ranging from €500 to €700 gross
• Housing compensation for relocation near the office: €300 net for locations near Amsterdam, and €255 net for other Philips locations
• Travel compensation of up to €145 net if you are not eligible for a free public transport card
• Paid holidays for the duration of the internship term
• Opportunity to purchase Philips equipment at our Philips shop

Starting Date: ASAP

Duration: 6 (with possibility to extend)

Location: Best, Netherlands

Hours: 32-40h per week

Security Operations Center primary objective is providing 24x7x365 detection and response capability to security incidents, as well as proactively hunting for advanced security incidents and use case development for Philips enterprise.

The goal of this internship is to help enhance the operational capabilities of the SOC by testing our existing use cases. As part of the assignment, you will contribute to the optimization of our threat detection.

Your role:

• Conduct Breach and Attack Simulations (BAS) across various environments
• Design and execute realistic cyberattack scenarios to simulate the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by real-world adversaries.
• Analyze and report on BAS results to help improve existing security policies, procedures, and controls
• Provide recommendations for threat mitigation and defense strategies based on simulation outcomes.
• Develop and maintain documentation for BAS methodologies, procedures, and processes.
• Stay up to date with the latest cybersecurity threats, attack vectors, and BAS tools.

You're the right fit if:

• Have a basic understanding of security use case development
• Have a basic understanding of BAS concepts
• Understanding of attack vectors, tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
• Familiarity with BAS tools such as Cymulate, SafeBreach, AttackIQ, or similar platforms

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.

What we offer you

• Monthly full-time allowance ranging from €500 to €700 gross, depending on your educational level. Part-time internships will receive a pro-rata allowance.
• Housing compensation for relocation near the office: €300 net for locations near Amsterdam, and €255 net for other Philips locations. To qualify, you must provide a rental contract from your landlord, and your regular home-to-work travel distance must be at least 50 km or your one-way travel time must be 1.5 hours or longer.
• Travel compensation of up to €145 net if you are not eligible for a free public transport card.
• Paid holidays for the duration of the internship term.
• Opportunity to purchase Philips equipment at our Philips shop.

Important

• Part of our selection procedure is a HireVue online interview recording. We are not able to share the outcome of this HireVue interview but will use this as extra selection criteria.
• In order to be considered, you must be registered as a student during the entire internship period. Formal documentation will be requested.
• Students from outside the EU enrolled at a Dutch university will need to fill in a NUFFIC agreement – which will need to be signed by the student and the university. Students receiving ECTS credits for this internship will need to fill in a UNL agreement – which will need to be signed by the student and the university.
• Please note that the contents of our regular internship assignments are not suitable for professionals (and/or MBA students) with professional work experience.

About Us

At Philips, we believe that every human matters. As a global health-tech leader, we focus on improving people’s health and wellbeing through meaningful innovation. The people who work here share our passion and are motivated to bring this purpose to life.

For more than 130 years, we have been creating technologies and innovations that improve people's lives and support healthcare practitioners. Headquartered in the Netherlands and operating in more than 100 countries globally, we focus our advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights on Precision Diagnosis, Image Guided Therapy, Enterprise Informatics, Monitoring/ Connected Care, Sleep & Respiratory Care and Personal Health.

Together, we deliver better care for more people because we believe that every human matters. That's why we're taking steps to create an environment where we acknowledge and embrace our differences and uniqueness and listen to and value each other's views. When people feel cared for and listened to, they bring their best qualities to work, leading to better collaboration, communication, innovation and success.

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