Gerald L. Bepko Student Internship Program
2009-2010
REN-ISAC Intern
The Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center (REN-ISAC, provides operational cybersecurity protection and response services supporting the U.S. higher education and research (R&E) communities. Through sensors and information sharing relationships, REN-ISAC receives data regarding infected machines on the Internet at large. That information is reported, in individualized incident notifications, to security contacts at the institutions owning the affected machines. Thousands of such reports are sent out each month. We wish to improve the notification system: streamline the integration of new data sources, adaptively customize notifications, reduce duplicates, and improve methods of tracking activity over time.
Project Overview:
Assist in the development of database systems and tools supporting the cyber security incident notification processes of the Research and Education
Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center (REN-ISAC). The intern will work in conjunction with the REN-ISAC Principal Security Engineer and
Technical Director to design, develop, and implement a database system and related tools to support one of REN-ISAC's major service areas. The intern
will learn about system requirements definition, database design, coding, operational systems implementation, and security incident handling
processes.
Description of duties:
Assist in the development of improvements to the REN-ISAC notification system. Duties will involve implementing open-source software systems, writing
programs and scripts, and interfacing with existing systems. The resulting notification system will accept incident data from a variety of
non-conforming sources, correlate multiple observations, normalize and store the data, merge the incident data with adaptive notification text, send
the notifications to abuse contacts, and produce activity reports.
Qualifications and relevant academic programs:
Students in the School of Informatics, Computer Science, or other IT related programs. The candidate must have some experience with database and web
CGI programming. MySQL and Perl are preferred. The candidate should have some experience writing programs using Linux-based systems.
Project Supervisor: Doug Pearson
Home Campus: Bloomington
Applicants should submit a cover letter indicating "REN-ISAC Intern", resume including skills relevant to project requirements, and letter of recommendation from a professor supporting your application, to:
Human Resources Coordinator
University Information Technology Services
535 W. Michigan St., IT 325
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5157
niarchos@iupui.edu
