Chicago, Illinois, USA
69 days ago
Cybersecurity Intern Summer 2025

Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here:

At Crowe, you have the opportunity to deliver innovative solutions to today’s complex business issues. Crowe’s accounting, consulting, and technology personnel are widely recognized for their in-depth expertise and understanding of sophisticated process frameworks and enabling technologies, along with their commitment to delivering measurable results that help clients build business value. Our focus on emerging technology solutions along with our commitment to internal career growth and exceptional client value has resulted in a firm that is routinely recognized as a “Best Place to Work.” We are 75 years strong and still growing. Come grow with us! 

Job Description:

Cybersecurity

As a Cybersecurity team member in Crowe’s Consulting Practice, your role will be focused on helping clients assess and refine their information security posture, technology implementations, and regulatory compliance. Our team will develop your Information Security skillset over your first couple of years. This is not a typical desk job. Starting from day one, you will be in the field working side by side with our experienced security professionals at our clients around the world! A number of our experienced team members have also presented their research, techniques, and procedures at security conferences around the country. At Crowe, we empower you to take risks, to challenge yourself in specialized areas of consulting & technology, and to generate solutions that impact the firm and your professional growth. Crowe cultivates a creative corporate culture where you will have the opportunity to share your ideas and knowledge with clients from your very first day with the firm.

Our team comes from different backgrounds and experience levels and works across many different client types and sizes. From a small business to a global company, you can expect to serve clients in many different industries, including financial services, life sciences, public sector, technology, consumer markets, and more!

Your career could launch in one of the following areas:

Assist clients as they transform their governance, embed risk in their decision-making, and maintain efficient compliance.

Perform cybersecurity assessments and independent monitoring.

Participate in penetration testing.

Complete other security reviews across client’s organizations

Assist clients as they assess and refine their information security posture and privacy capabilities through security testing, program and technology implementations, and cybersecurity consulting services. 

 This is a fast-paced environment with a high learning curve, so we provide many resources and on-the-job training opportunities – if you are willing to learn and build your areas of expertise, you will succeed.

Required Qualifications:

We are seeking college students pursuing academic degrees in one of the following preferred majors (or similar background):

Information Technology

Cybersecurity, Information Security, or Network Security

Cyber Forensics

Systems or Network Engineering and Administration

Computer Science or Software Engineering

Candidates must:

Have the ability to travel

Possess knowledge of Information Technology fundamentals, including:

Basic network services (TCP/IP, HTTP, SSH, SMB, and DNS), where they reside on the OSI model, and how they technically function to provide basic connectivity to a system

Routing and Switching

System Administration (Windows & Active Directory and/or Linux/Unix)

Database Administration (Microsoft SQL, Oracle, Mongo, PostgreSQL, etc.)

Cloud Systems (Azure, Google Cloud, AWS, etc.)

Possess knowledge of Information Security standards and concepts, such as:

Risk Management and Cybersecurity Governance

System and Application Hardening (Security Engineering)

Network Infrastructure Security

Access Management

Security Assessments

Security Operations

Compliance with Security Control Frameworks (SOC, ISO, etc.)

Federal / State Compliance (GDPR, CPRA, FedRAMP, CMMC, etc.)

Data Privacy

Possess technical writing skills using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, Outlook)

Preferred Qualifications:

A focus on information and network security areas

Have a passion for Information Security and be willing to share your knowledge and lessons learned with the team and the security community

Have a desire to continue personal growth through continuing professional education, self-study, pursuit of technical certifications, and mentoring/training less experienced team members

Be capable of independently managing time and able to prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment

Be able to communicate technical findings to non-technical audiences, such as company officers (CEOs, CIOs, CFOs, COOs) and Audit Committees

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Crowe, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $28.00 to $38.00 hourly.

We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship. These values define who we are. We expect all of our people to act ethically and with integrity at all times.

Our Benefits:

At Crowe, we know that great people are what makes a great firm. We value our people and offer employees a comprehensive benefits package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you!

How You Can Grow:

We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper!

More about Crowe:

Crowe (www.crowe.com) is one of the largest public accounting, consulting and technology firms in the United States. Crowe uses its deep industry expertise to provide audit services to public and private entities while also helping clients reach their goals with tax, advisory, risk and performance services. Crowe is recognized by many organizations as one of the country's best places to work. Crowe serves clients worldwide as an independent member of Crowe Global, one of the largest global accounting networks in the world. The network consists of more than 200 independent accounting and advisory services firms in more than 130 countries around the world.

Crowe LLP provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Crowe LLP does not accept unsolicited candidates, referrals or resumes from any staffing agency, recruiting service, sourcing entity or any other third-party paid service at any time. Any referrals, resumes or candidates submitted to Crowe, or any employee or owner of Crowe without a pre-existing agreement signed by both parties covering the submission will be considered the property of Crowe, and free of charge.

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