夏季，学习进步和网络安全

Childhood summers are often full of simple days spent soaking up the sunshine and getting your feet wet in the swimming pool.

For a college student, summers are a great time to prepare for your future. 今年, 我还能在阳光下待上一段时间, my days were also full of soaking up knowledge and getting my feet wet, 可以这么说, 有网络安全实习生咨询经验. 因为施耐德唐斯网络安全团队, this internship was both a valuable and enjoyable way to spend my summer.

The beginning of my internship was filled with attending orientation, 设置帐户和虚拟机, 了解公司, 了解我的团队成员. 很快, many of my days were spent shadowing team members as they conducted pen tests and blue team engagements. 在影子机会之间, I read through procedures and utilized resources to expand my technical knowledge. I also got to conduct a practice pen test and write a report on my findings. Each of these preparations eased me into the world of cyber consulting so that I was more confident and ready when I got to help with the early stages of some real pen tests. 团队分享知识的意愿, 回答问题, and provide great learning opportunities added so much value to this experience.

因为这是我毕业前的最后一次实习, I knew entering the position that I wanted it to be not only a chance to strengthen my cyber skills but also a way to help me decide what I want to do after graduation. 每学期, professors and guest speakers would share different career paths to take with a cybersecurity degree, and I would ponder which path would best fit with my personal goals and strengths. Before I fully understood penetration testing and consulting, 我把它们从可能性列表上划掉了. 然而, when I happened upon the Schneider Downs cybersecurity intern posting last fall, 我觉得这是我这个夏天注定要做的事情. 通过这次机会, I better understand the world of consulting and can more clearly consider cybersecurity consulting as an option for my career.

My experiences over the past several weeks serve as a reminder not to be intimidated by what I do not know and to be open-minded about possibilities for the future. I could not have predicted all the ways I would grow and benefit from this internship, and I am so glad that I spent this summer as an intern on Schneider Downs’ 网络安全 Team.