Contact Us

Have a question for Computer Security and Information Assurance? Contact us.

Linda Bernstein, MBA
Chair, Professional Studies Division
Professor of Business
716-649-7900, ext. 216
lbernstein@hilbert.edu

Professor Scott Patronik
CSIA/ Cybersecurity

5200 South Park Ave.
Hamburg, NY 14075
716-649-7900, ext. 401

INTERNSHIPS

Potential employers are increasingly interested in hiring graduates who have had meaningful real-world cybersecurity internship. Hilbert recognizes the need to prepare its students with hands-on, practical work experience while providing a valuable resource to government, law enforcement, banking and related agencies or businesses.

Hilbert has a network of more than 25 internship sites, allowing students to serve cybersecurity internships at federal, state and local agencies and organizations, banks, insurance companies and private businesses.

Internships are served during either the fall or spring semester of your senior year, and you will receive six academic credits for your efforts. This is your chance to make contributions to an organization and to demonstrate your potential value as a full-time employee after graduation.

Benefits of serving an internship

A cybersecurity internship provides you with the opportunity to:

Gain 240 hours of valuable, in-the-field cybersecurity work experience before graduating
Check out your interest in the field
Clarify your interests, strengths and weaknesses that need to be worked on.
Find out about additional job possibilities.
Gain relevant experience and skills, giving you greater potential to be hired by the agency or organization where you intern.

Network with professionals in the cybersecurity field.
Gain a sense of self-confidence and professionalism.
Develop your intellectual, problem-solving and leadership skills.
Bring classroom learning to life.
Increase your job marketability in the cybersecurity field.
Narrow your focus and clarify your career goals.