InsightsBy Dr Rizwan Ahmad · 10 Dec 2025 · 1 min readShare on LinkedIn

EIT Master of IT Students Complete Internships at Cianaa

EIT Auckland Master of IT students Jing Su and Ayesh Rodrigo gained hands-on cybersecurity industry experience through internships at Cianaa Technologies in Auckland.

Cianaa Technologies welcomed two Master of IT students from the Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT) Auckland — Jing Su, from Tianjin, China, and Ayesh Rodrigo, from Sri Lanka — for internships at our Auckland practice.

Industry experience that counts

As EIT put it, the students “stepped inside New Zealand’s tech sector through internships at cybersecurity firm Cianaa Technologies in Auckland”, gaining direct exposure to how New Zealand businesses operate — from the discipline of audit and assessment work to the standards that underpin trust in the digital economy.

Investing in the pipeline

Cybersecurity and assurance need new talent. Hosting postgraduate interns is one way Cianaa gives back — pairing emerging professionals with senior auditors and assessors so the next generation learns independence, rigour and professional scepticism from day one.

  • Students: Jing Su and Ayesh Rodrigo — Master of IT, EIT Auckland
  • Host: Cianaa Technologies, Auckland

More: EIT Auckland — post about the internships · EIT — Eastern Institute of Technology

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Dr Rizwan Ahmad

Dr Rizwan Ahmad is the founder of Cianaa Technologies — a PCI Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) and independent ISO certification auditor. He was named MSECB Auditor of the Year 2024 for Asia-Pacific, is listed by the New Zealand Government as an independent Security and Privacy evaluator under the Digital Identity Services Trust Framework, and led the audit behind New Zealand's first ISO/IEC 42001 (AI management system) certification.

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