{"id":213509,"date":"2026-02-13T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/building-skills-and-confidence-through-a-new-on-campus-cybersecurity-internship\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T14:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T19:55:30","slug":"building-skills-and-confidence-through-a-new-on-campus-cybersecurity-internship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/building-skills-and-confidence-through-a-new-on-campus-cybersecurity-internship\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Skills and Confidence Through a New, On-campus Cybersecurity Internship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.odu.edu\/article\/building-skills-and-confidence-through-a-new-campus-cybersecurity-internship\">Building Skills and Confidence Through a New, On-campus Cybersecurity Internship<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.odu.edu\/article\/building-skills-and-confidence-through-a-new-campus-cybersecurity-internship\">https:\/\/www.odu.edu\/article\/building-skills-and-confidence-through-a-new-campus-cybersecurity-internship<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-13 15:44:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.odu.edu\">www.odu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<h6>By Kelsey Kendall<\/h6>\n<p>Old Dominion University students are not waiting until graduation to do real cybersecurity work. Through a new pilot internship program, Monarchs are gaining hands-on experience protecting University systems, learning industry tools and building confidence that many professionals do not develop until years into their careers.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in Fall 2025, the cybersecurity internship places Monarch students inside the University\u2019s security operations center, where they train, alongside professional analysts, and respond to real alerts. The first cohort includes seven juniors and seniors in the cybersecurity program who began training at the beginning of the academic year and have reached a point where they can take on work more independently with a supportive network to help when they need it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Supervising the interns is Luke Watson, deputy chief information security officer in the Division of Digital Transformation and Technology, who said he wanted this to be an opportunity he would have jumped at when he was at these students\u2019stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re in a position where we can provide this opportunity and help these students acquire real-world skills,\u201d Watson said. \u201cThey can leave Old Dominion University having real IT security knowledge, which many don\u2019t get until three or five years into their careers.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aiden West, a senior in cybersecurity with a minor in information technology from Yorktown, Virginia, said working in the University\u2019s Security Operations Center gives him and others in his cohort valuable experience to include on their resumes that will help them land interviews.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis kind of opportunity is once in a lifetime,\u201d Aiden said. \u201cExperience is necessary in the cybersecurity industry if you\u2019re trying to get a job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because of this, cybersecurity students are required to complete internships, which ties directly into Old Dominion University\u2019s 2023-2028 Strategic Plan, \u201cForward-Focused: Where Innovation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.odu.edu\/article\/building-skills-and-confidence-through-a-new-campus-cybersecurity-internship\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building Skills and Confidence Through a New, On-campus Cybersecurity Internship https:\/\/www.odu.edu\/article\/building-skills-and-confidence-through-a-new-campus-cybersecurity-internship Publish Date: 2026-02-13 15:44:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.odu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_6535.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-213509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213511,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213509\/revisions\/213511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}