NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (the Centre)
is a NATO-accredited International Military Organisation dealing with education, consultation, lessons learned,
research and development in the field of cyber security.
Internship opportunity in penetration testing area from October to November 2015
The Tallinn-based Centre is a NATO-accredited knowledge hub focused on interdisciplinary applied research
and development as well as consultations, trainings and exercises in the field of cooperative cyber defence.
The Centre’s mission is to enhance capability, cooperation and information-sharing between NATO, Allies and
partners in cyber defence. As an international and interdisciplinary think tank and training facility, the Centre
brings together the legal, policy, strategy and technical cyber defence expertise.
Technical cyber defence exercises are typically aimed at exercising information system defence personnel
capabilities (i.e. Blue Teams) at the same time having a real time opposing force played by security specialists
and penetration testers (i.e. Red Team). “Crossed Swords” is an exercise oriented at penetration testers
working as a single united team, accomplishing the laid out mission goals and technical challenges in a
virtualised cyber environment. Exercise will practice red teaming technical skills, immediate network
situational overview, tactical approaches when executing a possible active cyber defence scenario and
Situational Awareness.
Intern, depending on his/hers skill set, is required to contribute technical challenge and exercise gamenetwork development.
The applicant should meet the following qualifications:
a national of a NATO member country. Exceptions to this criterion will be considered on a case-by-case
basis by the Centre’s Directorate;
experience with virtualised environment development and management (VMWare vSphere preferred
experience);
network infrastructure implementation (IPv6 experience highly appreciated);
MS Windows and GNU/Linux based solution implementation and development;
network based service design and deployment (e.g. VoIP, Web Applications);
higher education or enrolled in a graduate school degree program (second university degree or higher);
express technically advanced topics to non-technical people;
very good English language skills;
high degree of responsibility;
capable of teamwork;
ability to work independently.
Expectations from the Intern:
technical challenge development, implementation and testing. Such as network infrastructure, networkbased service, client-side, software and operating system exploitation attacks, game-net limited OSINT
execution;
participate in preparation of mission objectives for the exercise;
develop and further evolve exercise environment.
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Last day for applications: 09 of August 2015