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Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
Hybrid
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Summary:
Our vision? 'To advance the world through the power of people and Microsoft'. Every day, our people are committed to using the latest Microsoft technology to help transform our customers. By combining the breadth of expertise of our talented people and a huge passion for Microsoft, we can help our customers around the world advance in technology and create great experiences and solutions
Come join us:
Avanade is a global IT consulting firm that brings together people and IT. You'll recognize yourself in the 450 colleagues who walk around, as well as the 40 other interns who intern at Avanade every year. We have a lot of passion for and pleasure in the work we do and value a pleasant atmosphere in the workplace. With a huge talent for Microsoft technology, Avanade is a unique club where there's a lot of room for development and you're part of a large group of professionals. Together with the other interns, you form an enthusiastic group and community within Avanade. You can participate in many fun activities such as knowledge sessions during lunch, coffee moments with consultants and work drinks! In addition, we offer a number of soft skill training courses especially for the group of interns and the possibility to obtain a Microsoft certificate!
What you'll do:
This is an open-topic assignment within Cyber Defense, where you as graduate-intern can work on the hottest topics within Cyber Defense / Cyber Security. Aiming for the stars with the layered defense provided through the Microsoft Defender XDR suite, or squatting those incidents with Sentinel Data Lake and orchestrate the entire process around it. The choice is yours!
This internal Avanade internship will focus on building and demonstrating a business case on how organizations can benefit from implementing security solutions that go beyond simple device monitoring, but also look at Identity, Network and Application Security. You’ll need to research solutions in different solution areas to determine the value add to organizations.
Get ready, set.. Defend! In this open graduate assignment, you get to define your own topic within the Microsoft ecosystem, within the context of Cyber Defense. How will you increase the cyber-resilience of Enterprise organizations?
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Skills and experiences:
You are a 4th year HBO student or WO master's student and available for a graduation internship from 1 September 2026
You are interested in:
• Cyber Defense;
• Microsoft Defender suite;
• Sentinel Data Lake;
• SASE;
• CIS Benchmark;
• Blue-team
About you:
• You communicate fluently in both Dutch and English
• You are motivated to set up a high-quality graduation research project
• You have analytical thinking skills and a critical eye
• You have the drive to develop innovative solutions for complex issues
• You enjoy working in multidisciplinary teams
• You show initiative and take responsibility for defining your research scope
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