Our industrial placement is a 12-month immersive program based in London. It's designed to give computer science and cyber security students real-world experience in a cyber security role and exposure to areas such as: Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR), Cyber Threat Analysis (CTA), Incident Management (IM) and Managed Detection and Response (MDR).
The 2025 program will run from July 2025 - July 2026. You will be paid an annual salary and get staff benefits.
APPLICATIONS CLOSE JANUARY 5, 2025
About the placement and what to expect..
You will join CFC Response, our award-winning cyber security and incident response team. With more than two decades of experience, our global team of cyber security engineers, incident responders and forensic specialists successfully prevent and remediate thousands of cyber events for our customers each year.
You'll work in our London office and be fully integrated into life as a full time employee. You will gain exposure to different specialist teams within CFC Response:
- The DFIR team are set-up to investigate the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of an incident, assisting the client in understanding the scope of compromise and potential impact.
- The CTA team’s primary responsibility is to reduce cyber risk for our policyholders, by first detecting and then helping remediate known vulnerabilities.
- The IM team triage the incident to understand the big picture, enabling and co-ordinating all of the resources required to support the incident to final closure.
- The MDR team conduct monitoring, detection, threat hunting and initial response for clients both proactively and during a cyber incident.
Along the way you'll develop your technical skills and experience, learning from our high-performance teams who are experts in their field and tackle cyber threats day-in-day-out. You'll also receive an introduction to the insurance industry, develop your stakeholder management skills and be exposed to some of the latest and greatest technology and techniques. We pride ourselves on our friendly and supportive culture and you will get to experience a collaborative and innovative environment first-hand.
How to apply and who should apply?
Cyber security or Computer Science students looking for an industrial placement:
- Want to explore different areas of cyber security
- Interested in professional or managed services
- Innovative and creative mindsets
- Willing to deliver results and achieve goals
- Act with integrity
- Attention to detail
- Desire for continual improvement
- Great in a team
- Self-motivated
- Eligible to work in the UK
- Currently in year two of an appropriate sandwich year degree course
Please complete the application form with your CV and a blurb about yourself. You will then receive a link to undertake an online technical assessment to assess your current knowledge, reasoning, and skills. This testing will take up to 1 hour maximum and is comprised of 10 questions.
Once applications have closed and we have reviewed all the assessments, you will be notified of next steps. Successful applicants from the first stage will then be asked to submit a brief video to introduce themselves and tell us why they have chosen to apply for this opportunity.
