Cyber Security Industrial Placement, CFC
3-5 days a week in office
Insurance products purpose-built for today's risks
Be an early applicant
Insurance products purpose-built for today's risks
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
3-5 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To simplify the way business insurance is bought and sold. As a specialist insurance provider, they offer purpose-built packages that are designed for risks that modern businesses face.
Role
Who you are
- Cyber security or Computer Science students looking for an industrial placement:
- Want to explore different areas of cyber security
- Interested in professional or managed services
- Innovative and creative mindsets
- Willing to deliver results and achieve goals
- Act with integrity
- Attention to detail
- Desire for continual improvement
- Great in a team
- Self-motivated
- Eligible to work in the UK
- Currently in year two of an appropriate sandwich year degree course
What the job involves
- Our industrial placement is a 12-month immersive program based in London. It's designed to give computer science and cyber security students real-world experience in a cyber security role and exposure to areas such as: Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR), Cyber Threat Analysis (CTA), Incident Management (IM) and Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
- The 2024 program will run from July 2025 - July 2026. You will be paid an annual salary and get staff benefits
- You will join CFC Response, our award-winning cyber security and incident response team
- You'll work in our London office and be fully integrated into life as a full time employee
- You will gain exposure to different specialist teams within CFC Response:
- The DFIR team are set-up to investigate the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of an incident, assisting the client in understanding the scope of compromise and potential impact
- The CTA team’s primary responsibility is to reduce cyber risk for our policyholders, by first detecting and then helping remediate known vulnerabilities
- The IM team triage the incident to understand the big picture, enabling and co-ordinating all of the resources required to support the incident to final closure
- The MDR team conduct monitoring, detection, threat hunting and initial response for clients both proactively and during a cyber incident
- Along the way you'll develop your technical skills and experience, learning from our high-performance teams who are experts in their field and tackle cyber threats day-in-day-out
- You'll also receive an introduction to the insurance industry, develop your stakeholder management skills and be exposed to some of the latest and greatest technology and techniques
- We pride ourselves on our friendly and supportive culture and you will get to experience a collaborative and innovative environment first-hand
Application process
- APPLICATIONS CLOSE JANUARY 5, 2025
- Please complete the application form with your CV and a blurb about yourself
- You will then receive a link to undertake an online technical assessment to assess your current knowledge, reasoning, and skills
- This testing will take up to 1 hour maximum and is comprised of 10 questions
- Once applications have closed and we have reviewed all the assessments, you will be notified of next steps
- Successful applicants from the first stage will then be asked to submit a brief video to introduce themselves and tell us why they have chosen to apply for this opportunity
Salary benchmarks
Our take
According to CFC, modern businesses of all sizes need insurance built for today's risks. CFC is a global specialist insurance platform aiming to protect businesses with policies that are specially designed for their needs.
The company differentiates itself through its proprietary technology and cutting-edge data science and delivers high-quality products to the market faster than its competitors. Moreover, it aspires to make it as easy as possible for brokers to do business. The company's main priority at this point is expanding its technical capabilities in key areas of underwriting and claims handling. Its products are used by more than 150,000 businesses in 90 countries.
According to the founder & former CEO, Dave Walsh, the company passed the test of time due to the strong culture it embraced within the organisation from the moment the company was created in 1999. The culture of the organisation involves aspiring to continually improve its systems and products, aiming to simplify specialist insurance, investing in innovative technologies and always doing the right thing.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company benefits
- Private healthcare insurance
- Generous parental packages
- Cycle to work scheme
- Qualifications sponsorship
- Subsidised gym membership
- Monthly in-office massages
- Paid volunteer time
- Discretionary bonus scheme
Company values
- Love what you do: We show up each day ready to take on the world. Our passion and intensity set us apart and make the difference to our colleagues, customers, brokers, and carriers
- Challenge everything: We’re never afraid to question the way that things are done and we constantly challenge ourselves and others to make things better
- Have fun, be good: Insurance is a serious business, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We make it fun to work at CFC, we welcome all viewpoints, and we treat everyone how we would expect to be treated
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at CFC
Ellie Khan (Talent Acquisition & Inclusion)
- At CFC, the only thing we don’t tolerate is intolerance. Everyone is welcome, individuality is celebrated, and empathy is cultivated.
- We believe hiring the right people is one of the most important parts to building our business and we look for talented individuals with diverse perspectives and backgrounds.
- We invest in technology to minimise bias throughout the recruitment process.
- We have a dedicated "Together at CFC" team and a really exciting company-wide DEI calendar of events to participate in each year.
- We attend a diverse range of events and career fairs to learn more about DEI best practices and promote CFC as an inclusive business.
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