2025 Cyber Security Intern – Vendor Security

 San Jose, California, United States of America

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. 

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The Opportunity

The Adobe Cyber Security Internship is a program designed specifically for students looking to enrich their skills and experience by being a part of this innovative program. Adobe wants to provide a unique avenue for cybersecurity students to get the development they need for a future career in this exciting area.

This program features a two-part internship: Students will participate in a 5-week virtual part-time internship in the spring, then return to Adobe in the summer to complete a traditional 12-week internship in an Adobe office.

Are you passionate about joining a vendor security program for Adobe? Adobe Security is looking for a dynamic intern to join its Vendor Security team. As a Vendor Security Intern, work directly with business and technology partners, vendors, and legal to assess vendor security issues and risks, prioritize risk mitigation activities and guide the business to make risk-based decisions. This is a great opportunity to learn about risk management practices and principles and contribute to taking the vendor security risk management program to the next level. 

What You'll Do

• Work with business owners and vendors for BitSight alerts, security incidents to remediation and mitigate security risks
• Evaluate information security program maturity, security controls, and security documentation for Adobe's strategic vendors
• Review and assess Adobe vendors security posture before onboarding them to Adobe
• Communicate security risks to the business and build risk mitigation plans
• Support legal team with negotiation around Information security contract requirements
• Collaborate with cross-functional departments within Security, Procurement, Legal on process improvements and workflow integrations to provide improved customer experience
• Execute technical control validation for vendor technologies, in collaboration with other security teams.

What You Need to Succeed

To apply, you must be enrolled in your university's engineering program with a target graduation date between December 2025 - May 2026. Students who apply should be leaders on campus and show academic excellence. Your university must permit you to participate in an internship that takes place both during and after the academic year since there is a spring and summer session. You must be able to be physically present in an Adobe office location for the duration of the summer portion of the internship.

• Demonstrable understanding of cybersecurity risk assessment and risk management methodologies.
• Understanding of security and technical domains to best inform the program and assessment execution
• Confident in program management skills to meet milestones, deliver key results, and report status updates to manager
• Dependability: Meets commitments, works independently, accepts accountability, handles change, sets personal standards, stays focused under pressure
• Ability to speak and communicate professionally

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $38.00 -- $51.00 hourly. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay rate for your job location during the hiring process.Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. Learn more.

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