SkillBridge · Department of Defense

Spend your transition on the real work. A ten-week internship for service members and their spouses.

Through the DoD SkillBridge program, OSec brings transitioning service members and military spouses onto live offensive security work: hands-on testing alongside senior operators, real client problems, and the mentorship to carry your skills into a civilian security career.

The program

Ten weeks on offensive security, not the sidelines.

OSec is a DoD SkillBridge partner. The internship runs ten weeks, and you spend them on the same work our operators do: testing real environments, learning our methodology, and building the business sense that turns a military skill set into a civilian career. You bring discipline and a way of thinking clearly under pressure that this field needs. We bring the craft, the mentorship, and the room to apply both.

What the ten weeks look like
01

Hands on the real work

You test live client environments beside senior operators, not a lab exercise. The pentesting is real, and so is what rides on it.

02

Mentorship from operators

You learn the craft from people who do only this — methodology, tooling, and how experienced testers actually think their way through a target.

03

Business sense, not just skill

Security is a business as much as a discipline. You see how the work gets scoped, delivered, and explained to the people who depend on it.

04

A path, if it fits

The internship is an honest look, for both sides, at what a career here could be. More than a few of ours started exactly this way.

Who it’s for

If you’re transitioning, this is for you.

We hire for how you think, not the acronyms on your record. People from every specialty have made this jump, most of them without a security background when they walked in.

  • Every branch of the U.S. military
  • Military spouses
  • Any background or specialty
  • Service members leaving active duty

“OSec provided me with valuable, hands-on pentesting experience that enhanced my understanding and methodology.”

Zachary BranhamSkillBridge participant · U.S. Army
How to apply

Two short steps.

  1. 01

    Go through DoD SkillBridge

    Confirm your eligibility and start the official process on the Department of Defense SkillBridge site. Your command approves the internship as part of your transition.

  2. 02

    Tell OSec you’re coming

    Send us your work and mention SkillBridge, so we can line up a mentor and the right work for where you want to take your skills.

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