Security Engineer Internship

Four weeks of practical AppSec: web vulnerabilities, secure-by-default APIs, cloud hardening, and an incident-response tabletop.

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Outcomes

Find and fix OWASP top-10
Design secure-by-default APIs
Harden cloud infra
Lead an IR exercise

Internship roadmap

1
Web Vulns
2
Secure APIs
3
Cloud Hardening
4
Incident Response

Curriculum timeline

Week 1 — Web Vulns
XSS, CSRF, SSRF, IDOR.
4 tasks
Week 2 — Secure APIs
AuthN/AuthZ, rate limits.
4 tasks
Week 3 — Cloud Hardening
IAM, secrets, network.
4 tasks
Week 4 — Incident Response
Tabletops, runbooks, postmortems.
4 tasks

Task previews

Day 1

OWASP Top 10

reading

Day 2

Find + fix vulns

coding

Day 3

AI interview: root cause

ai interview

Day 4

Web vulns quiz

quiz

Day 5

Secure-by-default APIs

reading

Day 6

Harden an API

coding

+10 more inside your dashboard

Starter resources

Reviews

★★★★★

IR tabletop was unexpectedly fun

Calmer about real incidents now.

★★★★★

CTF + writeups

The deliberately vulnerable app + writeups format works.

FAQ

Background needed?

Backend or full-stack experience. CTF interest helps.

Tooling cost?

Burp Community + open-source tools throughout.

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