Fortress FastLane Intern

Location: Remote - Orlando HQ

Employment Type: Part-Time (10-15 hours per week)

About the role

The Fortress FastLane Intern role offers college seniors a unique opportunity to launch their cybersecurity career while completing their degree, rotating through four strategic business areas on a quarterly basis within the SCRM team. Interns will gain hands-on exposure to vendor control assessments, AI-powered risk monitoring, and cyber supply chain risk management — the core services Fortress delivers to its clients. Working 10–15 hours per week through May 2027, participants will build broad, practical skills across multiple high-impact assignments. This program is designed as a direct pipeline to full-time employment at Fortress, making it an exceptional opportunity for driven students ready to grow into the cybersecurity field.

Responsibilities

• Rotate through four business areas, each on a quarterly basis, meeting the specific deliverables and quality standards of each Rotation Lead's team.
• Consistently deliver on assigned workload, commitments, deadlines, and objectives while following established service level agreements in scope and leveraging appropriate tools, methods, frameworks, and professional standards.
• Curate and organize company-specific information from public, private, and proprietary sources through data collection, analysis, evaluation, and risk-scoring.
• Collaborate with internal partners and third parties to enhance, mitigate, and resolve third-party risks.
• Represent Fortress as a key point of contact to clients and their third parties as rotation assignments require.
• Support Validated Controls Assessment (VCA), AI Monitoring, data integrity QA, and program management activities depending on current rotation.
• Communicate effectively and professionally within each rotation team and with cross-functional partners.
• Track assigned work efficiently while meeting given deadlines across changing rotation assignments.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Ability to work 10-15 hours per week.
• Basic AI proficiency, including the ability to use approved AI tools responsibly when permitted by Fortress policy and customer requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new tools, teams, and workflows, and to adapt professionally to a new business area every quarter.
• Experience in, or aptitude for, a customer/client-facing environment.
• Solid understanding of risk management concepts, particularly around information security, IT general controls, and basic audit terminology and concepts.
• Comfort learning and using AI-powered tools and platforms (e.g., generative AI assistants, AI-based monitoring or security tools) to support research, analysis, and reporting tasks.
• Demonstrated professional communication and client relationship skills.
• Attention to detail, sound judgement, logical thinking, and proven ability to follow established scripts/consistency models, drive tasks to completion, meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment, and adapt to changing business needs with periodic supervision.
• Strong computer skills, including MS Office and Google products (e.g., Word, Excel, Gmail) and other business software.
• Ambition, drive, sharp vision, and a great attitude.

Qualifications

• Currently a student pursuing a bachelor's degree in a related field.

Preferred Skills

• Proven working experience or strong academic/internship exposure to cybersecurity control reviews, operational risk management, information security, security research, or third-party/vendor risk management.

Pay

$25/hour

Benefits

• Remote and Hybrid working environment
• Competitive pay structure
• Medical, dental, vision plans with employees covered up to 90% with highly progressive options for dependents and families
• Company paid life, short- and long-term disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• 401(k) match
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Parental Leave

Employment Perks

• Professional growth opportunities through succession planning, up-skilling, and certifications
• Tuition and certification reimbursement
• Employee Referral Programs
• Company Sponsored Events