Internship: Security Operations Center – Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS)Experience Level: Entry Level | Posted Date: 2025-04-15
Job title: Internship: Security Operations Center – Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS)
Start date: asap
Location: Best
Security Operations Center primary objective is providing 24x7x365 detection and response capability to security incidents, as well as proactively hunting for advanced security incidents and use case development for Philips enterprise.
The goal of this internship is to help enhance the operational capabilities of the SOC by testing our existing use cases. As part of the assignment, you will contribute to the optimization of our threat detection.
Your role:
Conduct Breach and Attack Simulations (BAS) across various environments
Design and execute realistic cyberattack scenarios to simulate the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by real-world adversaries.
Analyze and report on BAS results to help improve existing security policies, procedures, and controls
Provide recommendations for threat mitigation and defense strategies based on simulation outcomes.
Develop and maintain documentation for BAS methodologies, procedures, and processes.
Stay up to date with the latest cybersecurity threats, attack vectors, and BAS tools.
You're the right fit if:
Have a basic understanding of security use case development
Have a basic understanding of BAS concepts
Understanding of attack vectors, tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
Familiarity with BAS tools such as Cymulate, SafeBreach, AttackIQ, or similar platforms
In return, we offer you
A great opportunity to gain experience within a high performing finance team. You will gain insight into significant events within Royal Philips from an accounting and reporting perspective, as well as insight into other teams within Royal Philips. You will work in a team, which cooperates closely and there will be many learning and development opportunities.
Next to that, we are offering a decent internship package:
Monthly full-time allowance between €500 - €700 gross, depending on educational level and if you would need to relocate to The Netherlands. If you will perform a part-time internship you will receive the allowance pro-rata.
Housing compensation, in case of relocating to the vicinity of the office, €300,- net if location is in the vicinity of Amsterdam, €255,- net for all other Philips locations. You need to provide a rental contract of the land lord, and your normal home-work travel distance need to be more than 50 km or travel time (one way trip) need to be more than 1.5 hours.
Travel compensation, if you are not eligible for a free public transport card; you will receive max. €145,- net
Paid holidays per internship term.
The opportunity to buy Philips equipment at our Philips shop
Important:
Please note that in order to be considered for an internship, you need to be registered as a student during the entire internship period. Formal documentation (proof of enrollment) will be requested. Students from outside the EU need to fill in an NUFFIC agreement, which needs to be signed by the student and the university. Please note that the contents of our regular internship assignments are not suitable for professionals (and/or MBA students) with professional work experience.
How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.
Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.
Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations. This role is an office role.
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