Information Assurance Summer Intern Program (IA/SIP)

Web site: http://www.nsa.gov/careers/students_1.cfm#sipia

Working at NSA as a Summer Intern provides an opportunity for you to earn while you learn in the field of Information Assurance (IA). You will be involved in information operations that protect and defend the Nation's top-secret information and information systems, as well as providing for restoration of information systems by incorporating protection, detection, and reaction capabilities.

Application Deadline

Applications are accepted between August 1st and October 15th.

About the Program

The Information Assurance Summer Intern Program (IA/SIP) is a full time 12-week program open to select college upperclassman and graduate students who are concentrating their studies in the disciplines of Information Assurance. To participate in this program, the student must return to school for at least one semester following the internship.

For purposes of this program, IA encompasses the scientific, technical, and management disciplines required to ensure computer and network security, such as:

• System/network administration and operations
• Systems security engineering
• Information assurance systems and product acquisition
• Cryptography
• Threat and vulnerability assessment, including risk management
• Web security
• The operations of computer emergency response teams
• Information assurance training, education, and management
• Computer forensics
  
• Defensive information operations