iQ4 Corporation - iQ4 - Service 2 Cyber

Over twelve-weeks, you will also develop critical workplace skills by working in a mentored team of five to seven people. You will operate in a role, responding to a real-world scenario (Espionage, IP Theft, Fraud, etc). The internship comprises of weekly lesson plans and assignments. You and your team will present your assignments to the mentor, who counsels individuals and teams by leveraging their industry experience, then assesses the assignments to ensure you are job ready by the end of the internship. Importantly, you will develop “Executive Presence”, which is the ability to define and solve problems in a team-based environment, prepare business reports and infographics and present them to mentors, in preparation for the real world when you must communicate with your team, executives, supply chain partners or regulators.

There are over 60 Job Role profiles in Cybersecurity and Risk professions that you can pursue as a career or use as your entry point. You will work in a virtual internship (which can qualify as a pre-apprenticeship with participating employers seeking apprentices). Job roles you will undertake, or can select, during the 12-week internship include Information Security Officer, Risk Analyst, Behavioural Analyst, Technology Risk Analyst, IT Auditor, Cloud Risk and Control Engineer, for example. These foundation roles and the learning model prepares participants for the public and private sector workplace. A key differentiator of the program, compared to academic, or technical certification courses or internship, is that it is designed by industry professionals to provide Related Work Experience (RWE aka OJT). Employers advise that while past military experience helps, academic qualifications and technical lab certifications can be learnt as wrote, they are more interested in experience. The experience you gain will help you make a breakthrough to obtain and shine during interviews. iQ4’s internships leverage core standards that employers use, such as the NIST Cybersecurity, Cloud Risk and Controls, and other gold standard Frameworks. These build resilience and show the regulators and shareholders how they build and maintain cybersecurity defense. Landing a job is down to convincing a private or public sector employer that you are ready for a job in the civilian context. This is what our program is designed for – delivering a candidate with 350 hours of Related Work Experience.

There are no prerequisite eligibility requirements. For example, a military dog handler took our internship approach and landed a job as an Insider Threat Analyst within six weeks of completing our immersive program. However, those with a security clearance and experience with computers or networks/signals, policing (e.g., transferable risk assessment skills), logistics, program and project management, training, and human resource management tend to adapt more readily.