Connecting the IT industry with skilled graduates

Cyber Studio is a growing community, linking the IT and cyber security industry with IT graduates who are looking to refine their skills and gain employment.  Cyber Studio offers graduate internships, short courses and vendor certification material.

By providing a framework for industry internships Cyber Studio makes it easy for IT businesses to connect with skilled graduates for paid internships, offered in a supported environment.

As part of our engagement with industry, the Cyber Studio also hosts regular networking events providing the opportunity for industry to showcase their skills and opportunities and access our top IT graduates.

Welcome to the Cyber Studio

For Industry

Hosting interns can be a good way of introducing new employees to your organisation. The Cyber Studio provides you the platform to attract IT and cyber security graduates. You can engage the Cyber Studio community by offering to lead one of our regular sponsor events where you will be able to network with graduates and university staff as well as expose the community to your organisation and experience.  As a vendor reseller, you may have access to vendor certification material. The Cyber Studio allows you the opportunity to provide vendor training to potential interns, increasing the number of skilled employees in your organisation. There are several levels of sponsorship please contact us to identify which suits your organisation.

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For IT and Cyber Security Graduates

Industry Internships

The organisations below are actively looking for Cyber Studio interns. As an intern you will work full-time within the organisation gaining industry experience. One of the main differences with the Cyber Studio internship program is many opportunities recommend you have pre-requisite knowledge. Some internships will require you to have completed vendor certifications or short courses before you can apply. This will make you more competitive and also provide you with tailored skills and knowledge that will benefit your employer straight away.

Current opportunities

Cyber Audit Team Internship

Through this program, Cyber Audit Team are offering paid industry placements to eligible candidates that will increase the quality and quantity of cyber security professionals in South-East Queensland. The placements are aimed at those who already have some IT knowledge, basic cyber knowledge, other related transferable skills or prior learning, but lack the required skills and/or experience that employers often require. The placement will provide successful candidates with ‘real-world’ cyber security skills and industry knowledge, making them ‘job-ready’ and increasing their employability.

Applications are now open.

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Microsoft AI Intensive Bootcamp

Join us for an extraordinary learning experience at the Microsoft AI Intensive Bootcamp. This Artificial Intelligence (AI) intensive program is designed to prepare you to take the AI-102 Microsoft Azure AI Engineer or AI-900 Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals exam. Bootcampers will also be provided with additional learning paths and practice assessments so they can attempt any exams across Cloud, Data, Security, Power Platform, M365 or Dynamics. You can choose what's right for you.

Applications are now open.

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Previous opportunities

Tesserent 100 Challenge

Tesserent and Griffith Cyber Studio provide a 5-day cyber security program (3-7 July 2023) designed for students and graduates to learn, practice and connect. The goal by the end of this program is for you to have a better understanding of what a career in cyber security looks like. Participants will also build their network with peers and industry leaders to help pave the first step in their cyber security journey.

Applications have now closed

Studio Lead - Prof Ernest Foo

Email Prof Ernest Foo

Professor Ernest Foo

Ernest Foo is a Professor within Griffith’s School of Information and Communication Technology. Professor Foo’s research can be broadly grouped into the field of applied cyber security. National critical infrastructure systems such as electricity substations and water treatment plants are becoming more connected and are susceptible to cyber-attacks. Professor Foo’s research seeks new ways to detect cyber attackers in critical infrastructure systems and prevent those attackers from being effective. The mechanisms he has employed in his research include machine learning and data mining as well as cryptographic protocols and network simulations.  Professor Foo has extensive experience with computer networking having worked and taught in this area for over 20 years. 
Professor Foo has also been responsible for the design and development of the Griffith University Cyber Range which has allowed cyber security students during COVID-19 lockdowns to access virtual machines and networks for penetration testing and digital forensics courses using just a web browser from anywhere in the world.
In terms of research grants, Professor Foo has held an (Australian Research Council) ARC Linkage grant with the electricity transmission authority Powerlink Queensland in Australia. The Linkage project extended knowledge of cyber security for control systems in electricity sub-stations.  He has also worked on a project with the US Consulate in Australia to study foreign owned mobile payment systems in the Indo-Pacific region.