IT Risk and Security Undergraduate Review
by Volkswagen Financial Services
Rating
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Skills
4.5
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
4.5
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Your Impressions
4.0
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
- Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
- 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
- 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
- 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the social opportunities?
- How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
- How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
- 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at Volkswagen Financial Services
- 7. Would you recommend Volkswagen Financial Services to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Volkswagen Financial Services
Overview
Investigating day to day cybersecurity threats - (e.g Phishing Emails), review any security incidents and monitoring them. Close collaboration with most IT teams is required, due to the importance of patching software on time. Monitoring vulnerabilities and risk related to IT systems. Supply-chain security and supplier investigations and external services.
Skills
I've learned loads of technical skills - mostly related to IT systems around me, along with a lot of soft skill to be able to collaborate with teams around me. I've had a better understanding of real world security threats.
Responsibilities
A fair amount of responsibility was placed upon me, mostly to take care of tasks that I was assigned.
Support & Guidance
A lot of support and guidance was given to me to be able to understand everything about the job, along with plenty of guidance to perform my tasks. If I had any questions regarding my job, a thorough explanation was given on why I was performing said task and the impact of it.
Culture
Integrity seems to be a large part of VWFS and all people I've collaborated with showed integrity
Your Impressions
I've enjoyed my placement a lot. It gave me an opportunity to be able to explore not only my interest in the team I was working in, but also the wider department, with plenty of opportunities to move around and shadow most workloads of other teams. Overall I believe the collaborations between the department was great and it allowed me to make the most out it.
Yes
Be yourself, and make the most out of this experience. The teams at VWFS are there to make sure you take in as much information as you can before you leave the placement.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Information Technology, Computer Science
East Midlands
April 2024
