Fortress FastLane Intern
Location: Remote - Orlando HQ
Compensation: $25/hour
Employment Type: Part-Time (10-15 hours per week)
Education Requirement: Currently a student pursuing a bachelor's degree
What you can expect as the Fortress FastLane Intern at Fortress...
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 Include:
- 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.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 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.
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.
Education:
- Currently a student pursuing a bachelor's degree in a related field
Employee 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
- We provide each employee with professional growth opportunities through succession planning, up-skilling, and certifications
- Tuition and certification reimbursement
- Employee Referral Programs
- Company Sponsored Events
Fortress is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employees and applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. Fortress Information Security takes part in the E-Verify process for all new hires.
For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will have to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Pay Range: $25 per hour
