Students can complete a substantial project for your organization over the placement period. We suggest providing a starting project, but there may be other duties or projects the student is asked to complete as the work proceeds. Providing a central project creates structure for the internship/capstone, and gives the student (and company) a tangible goal.

Projects that we'd like to match with generally fall within these 3 categories:

1. Diagnose vulnerabilities through pen testing, thread analysis or mobile forensics
2. Remediate vulnerabilities that were identified in Project Type 1. Some student teams may be able to do both 1 and 2, but we've found that often, the remediation will need to be done by a future student cohort.
3. Evaluate a company's existing Cybersecurity policy and propose updates that will bring the company in line with federal, state and industry mandates. In cases where a policy doesn't exist, our student teams can draft a policy for approval.

Here are some other examples although many of these will end up as components of one of the 3 main project types listed above:

• Developing a project plan that utilizes commonly accepted project management techniques.
• Applying commonly accepted methods in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance to design, plan, and execute a Cybersecurity project.
• Evaluating the best method or framework that meets project goals for creating a Cybersecurity solution for the Cybersecurity project.
• Formerly presenting the project plan and proposal to project advisors and stakeholders for review.
• Develop a comprehensive risk matrix
• Researching new technology like quantum computing or the application of machine learning to cybersecurity
• Evaluation of security products (firewalls, Virtual Private Network (VPN) Systems etc)