Associate Cybersecurity Analyst, Intern - GRC Austin, TX

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

Visa is looking for an Associate Cybersecurity Analyst, Intern candidate to join our Cybersecurity Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) team, which works with several stakeholders to ensure appropriate processes, procedures, and controls are adequately designed and implemented to meet Visa security requirements and mitigate any risks that are associated with engagement of third parties. Also, oversight, coordination, and delivering the activities that support successful internal audits, external audits and compliance, regulatory activities, and external customer/client requests while effectively balancing the individual elements of these activities.

Some job duties and projects could include:

• Assist with oversight, coordination, and delivering the activities that support successful internal audits, external audits and compliance, regulatory activities, and external customer/client requests.
• Assist with validating the ongoing effectiveness of Cybersecurity controls across Visa (both automated and manual), working with a variety of control owners within the Cybersecurity organization, and evaluating control design and standards in a variety of program areas. You will be assessing the security on various platforms and technologies from attacks like:
  • Payment processing platforms, Payment Wallet solutions, Consumer facing applications, COTS products deployed in house,
  • SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS public cloud offerings
  • Mainframe, Linux, Windows, and virtual machines
  • IDS, SIEM, WAF, Firewalls
  • HSMs, Tokenization systems, data encryption solutions
  • APIs, Web technologies,
  • Relational and noSQL databases
  • Access Management solutions
• Assist with data points into Information Security risk management reporting activities, including dashboards, metrics, and executive reporting content
• Assist with risk/security assessments of Suppliers and Third-Party relationships to identify, validate and remediate risks Cybersecurity Risks.  This may include performing interviews, document design assessments and walkthroughs of cybersecurity controls.
• Assist with ongoing monitoring of Suppliers and Third Party to review compliance against compliance and regulatory requirements.
• Participate and conduct onsite assessments of Third Parties against Visa’s security framework and industry security standards. Support risk/security assessments for special projects involving Third Parties.
• Support PCI-related activities relevant to third parties to ensure compliance with PCI requirements.
• Update Cybersecurity leadership on the status of technology risk and compliance issues based on assessment results and information from various monitoring and control systems.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications 

• Students pursuing a Bachelor’s or Masters degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, CIS/MIS, Cybersecurity, Business or a related field, with less than 2 years relevant work experience, graduating December 2025 or later.
•  Strong communications skills, specifically, the absence of repeated grammatical or typographical errors, clear and concise written and spoken communications that demonstrate professional judgment.  

Preferred Qualifications 

• University or internship experience in cybersecurity, IT audit, or IT risk management.
• Experience in cybersecurity, IT audit, risk management, compliance, or related fields.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks and standards such as NIST, ISO, PCI, etc.
• Experience working with multiple individuals on internal and external delivery
• Ability to synthesize a variety of data points, problem solve and formulate comprehensive and effective execution and risk mitigation plans
• Excellent Data Analysis skills using Microsoft Excel, SQL, or other scripting languages
• Review and provide feedback on development code, test designs and test cases 
• Experience in Audit/Compliance/Regulatory discussions and proactive readiness activities in a large global financial institution or a matrix organization
• Experience in Risk and Control Self-Assessment activities