Information Security Co-Op/Intern

At Kinaxis, who we are is grounded in our common belief that people matter. Each one of us plays an important part in accomplishing our work, building our culture and making a global impact.
Every day, we’re empowered to work together to help our customers make fast, confident planning decisions. This is how we create a better planet – for each other, for our customers and for generations to come. Our cloud-based platform RapidResponse ensures that the products we need – everything from medicine and cars, to day-to-day items like toothpaste – make it to market and into our hands when we need them with minimal ecological footprint.
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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

• 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
• Identify compromised systems on the network and assist with containment and mitigation
• Assist with disaster recovery and business continuity planning
• Identify and propose key information security program priorities, initiatives, plans, practices and tools
• May perform additional projects upon request
• Performs technical risk assessments and reviews of new and existing applications and systems, including data center physical security and environment
• 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
• 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
• Participate in the Security Incident Response Process
• Implement and support approved information security projects and internal/external security audits
• 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
• Train users and promote security awareness to ensure system security and to improve server and network efficiency

What we are looking for

• Excellent verbal and communication skills
• Basic networking / security knowledge
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Self-starter with strong initiative
• Currently enrolled in a program where information security is the primary focus

What we have to offer

• Great People - We take our work seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously! It’s in our DNA to celebrate, laugh, and have fun. We are stronger, together, when we are open, honest, and above all, real. Every person is valued here and plays an important role in our shared success.
• Global Impact - As a global team spanning continents, boundaries, and cultures, every day we are inspired by the impact our work has on our colleagues, our customers, our communities, and the world at large.
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - Diversity, equity and inclusion are more than words to us. They are the guiding principles for building a culture where we celebrate each others’ differences, continuously strive for equality and recognize that inclusion makes us stronger as individuals, a company and a global citizen.
• Challenging Work - We love solving highly complex problems. And as the global leaders in our industry, we never stop innovating—our work is never “done. That’s because across our teams and in all roles, every employee is empowered to bring their best ideas forward and to jump in and solve the problems they’re passionate about.

For more information, visit the Kinaxis web site at www.kinaxis.com or the company’s blog at http://blog.kinaxis.com/ .
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