Listing Description

Information Security Co-Op/Intern

Job location: our office in Ottawa, Canada

Term length: 4 months starting September 2023

About the team

In this role, you will be part of the Global Security Operations within Kinaxis. You will be monitoring network and application performance to identify and irregular activity. Perform regular audits to ensure security practices are compliant. Researching threats and escalating events as needed. Overall, you will assist and contribute to the global team in day-to-day analysis tasks and in fun wider team projects. This will allow you to learn and gain experience, in both, analytical and interpersonal skills.

What you will do

• Review security logs from all systems.  Correlate and identify intrusions or areas of risk


• Conduct vulnerability and penetration tests against defined infrastructure to identify weakness


• Identify compromised systems on the network and assist with containment and mitigation


• Identify and propose key information security program priorities, initiatives, plans, practices and tools


• Provide guidance (e.g., information security risk severity assessments / relative cost benefit analysis etc.) and provide recommendations regarding prioritization of investments and projects that mitigate risks, strengthen defenses and reduce vulnerabilities


• Implement and support approved information security projects and internal/external security audits


• Collaborate across the company to ensure information security risks in both ongoing and planned operations are properly considered and that all compliance matters are being adhered to as required


• Monitor information security trends and evolving technologies and keep senior management informed about related information security issues and implications for the Company


• Understand potential and emerging information security threats, and vulnerabilities and communicate this information to appropriate team members throughout the Company on a timely basis


• Participate in the Security Incident Response Process


• Assist with disaster recovery and business continuity planning


• Performs technical risk assessments and reviews of new and existing applications and systems, including data center physical security and environment


• Train users and promote security awareness to ensure system security and to improve server and network efficiency


• May perform additional projects upon request

What we are looking for

• Currently enrolled in a program where information security is the primary focus


• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills


• Excellent verbal and communication skills


• Self-starter with strong initiative


• Basic networking / security knowledge