Justice Gideon

CYSE 368

Old Dominion University

 I was able to get accepted for my summer internship with Valdez International Corporation on May 16, 2022, on their Airforce Contract at Langley Airforce base in Hampton, Virginia. Valdez International Corporation is Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB) that delivers enterprise IT solutions and services supporting critical missions of the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, Department of Interior and other commercial clients. They also specialize in cyber operations and security; application services and support and I was glad to be part of their cyber operations and security team. My internship job was Network Administrator working with the Vulnerability management team performing security scans using Nessus as a tool. On my first day at the job site, I was introduced to the team and worked on trainings that are required for me to perform my job. My first week was filled with working on trainings and shadowing my co-workers learning what they do and what role I will be performing. My job responsibilities were building custom scans, providing vulnerability scanning assessment to in an enterprise of more than 3000 users, installation, and configurations of scans and as well as providing both executive and technical reports. I had to take a training on ACAS which refers to Assured Compliance Assessment Solution which is the mandated enterprise that does vulnerability scanning capability for networks and components that are owned and operated by the Department of Defense (DoD). Nessus is the scanning component of ACAS that is in compliance with the CVE (Common Vulnerability and Exposures) and DISA STIGs.  At the end of my first week, I was able to complete or required trainings and learn more about my position and job responsibility.

I look forward to what the rest of week will bring since there are a lot to learn and perform in my role. The team that I will be working with have been extremely helpful guiding and teaching me as I have questions about some of the tasks that I am responsible for.