Prerequisites: BACS 3504 and BACS 3573
Recommended preparation: BACS 4503
6 Credit Hours | 20 Week Course Term
*Note: this internship can be taken concurrently with the elective courses in the program
Much like the World Health Organization and its global disease monitoring network, the SANS Technology Institute, through its research wing in the Internet Storm Center (ISC), maintains and operates the world’s leading global cyber threat detection network.
The ISC depends on continuous input from a series of DShield sensors and web application honeypots. Of course, all that collected data accomplishes nothing if it is not processed, interpreted, analyzed and very quickly reported to the global information security community. This is the role of the ISC handlers, the frontline personnel of global threat detection, whose main task is to take all the input received into the ISC and turn it into "diaries" (https://isc.sans.edu/diaryarchive.html).
This virtual internship as an Apprentice Handler will provide a student with a continuous opportunity over the course of 20 weeks to observe emerging threats, to analyze and report upon those threats, and to gain experience under the mentorship of a Handler or Senior Handler. This hands-on, real-world experience will prepare the student for a first professional cybersecurity role in a way that few other programs can. That experience will include not only a deepening of practical understanding of real-world technical issues, but also the ability to effectively write and communicate about those issues.