SECURITY INTERN RESUME EXAMPLE

Published: Oct 13, 2025 - The Security Intern supports threat monitoring, assessment, and response efforts to help protect HPE’s employees, networks, and sensitive data. This role involves learning about governance, risk, compliance, physical security systems, and the integration of IT infrastructure with supply chain and asset protection. The intern also gains exposure to various Global Security functions, contributes to strategic and operational projects, and helps develop tools to strengthen security capabilities across the organization.

Tips for Security Intern Skills and Responsibilities on a Resume

1. Cyber Security Intern, Burke & Herbert Bank & Trust, Alexandria, VA

Job Summary: 

  • Provide support to the Director of Cyber Security in supporting analysis and recommendations of mitigations for events and incidents identified in corporate networks and IT assets.
  • Employ industry best practices, processes, procedures, and techniques as part of daily monitoring and analysis of potential cybersecurity events.
  • Triage SOC alerts in a timely fashion, remediate level 1 and level 2 alerts, and escalate alerts.
  • Ensure compliance with corporate security policies and practices.
  • Provide accurate and up-to-date supporting documentation.
  • Audit authorized accesses, recommend revoking access, and report violations.
  • Review monitoring information requests, recommend improvements.
  • Perform preliminary forensic evaluations of ITS systems.
  • Audit systems hardening, recommend necessary patching and upgrades for network components as well as applications on workstations used by staff to support those networks and on servers.


Skills on Resume:

  • Incident Response (Hard Skills)
  • Threat Detection (Hard Skills)
  • Alert Management (Hard Skills)
  • Policy Compliance (Hard Skills)
  • Accurate Documentation (Soft Skills)
  • Access Auditing (Hard Skills)
  • Forensic Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Team Communication (Soft Skills)

2. Cyber Security Intern, CIAAN Cyber Tech Pvt Ltd, California City, CA

Job Summary: 

  • Responsible for including incident response, audit log review, and consultations/consulting on information security issues.
  • Complete all required training modules and certifications prior to the due date.
  • Ensure all safety policies and procedures are followed to ensure a safe work environment for all.
  • Communicate professionally with all internal and external contacts.
  • Follow all Company policies and execute Company standards on appearance and functionality, as well as brand representation.
  • Communicates any concerns or issues to leadership.
  • Ensure proper efficiency of department and company operations.
  • Participate in penetration tests.
  • Responsible for performing vulnerability scans.


Skills on Resume:

  • Incident Response (Hard Skills)
  • Audit Log Review (Hard Skills)
  • Security Consulting (Hard Skills)
  • Training Compliance (Soft Skills)
  • Safety Procedures (Soft Skills)
  • Professional Communication (Soft Skills)
  • Operational Efficiency (Soft Skills)
  • Vulnerability Scanning (Hard Skills)

3. Cyber Security Intern, Randa Corp, Rosemont, IL

Job Summary: 

  • Participate in threat hunting exercises.
  • Monitor open issues with security tool vendors and work with vendor engineers to resolve tool-related issues.
  • Perform maintenance and/or advanced configuration of systems in order to protect infrastructure from emerging cyber threats.
  • Present Monitoring/Test Results and Reports.
  • Execute processes to implement technical solutions to address vulnerability findings.
  • Execute company initiatives and other activities requested by the supervisor.
  • Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities.
  • Contribute ideas on ways to optimize or improve the team, the department, and the Company.


Skills on Resume:

  • Threat Hunting (Hard Skills)
  • Vendor Coordination (Soft Skills)
  • System Configuration (Hard Skills)
  • Reporting Analysis (Soft Skills)
  • Vulnerability Management (Hard Skills)
  • Task Execution (Soft Skills)
  • Continuous Learning (Soft Skills)
  • Process Improvement (Soft Skills)

4. Cyber Security Intern, Infinity Natural Resources, Morgantown, WV

Job Summary: 

  • Involved in monitoring, assessing, and responding to threats directed towards HPE and implementing mitigating controls.
  • Learn how to protect HPE's employees, network, and sensitive data from attacks (both digital and physical).
  • Responsible for exposure to Project Management Organization (PMO), Security Field Operations, Fusion Center, Operations and Engineering and Risk and Compliance functions, all residing under the Global Security Organization.
  • Learn about the supply chain and the physical protection of HPE Assets, Business Resiliency and site security systems and processes, as physical security installations are increasingly integrated with IT infrastructure.
  • Learn the importance of how the components of governance, risk and compliance are used to secure an organization.
  • Support Global Security's capability to execute strategic programs/projects and support management in the delivery of operational projects.
  • Deploy and create great tools and software for Global Security to perform its mission.
  • Support the evaluation of risk to HPE of the use of technologies by internal business units and external 3rd parties.


Skills on Resume:

  • Threat Response (Hard Skills)
  • Data Protection (Hard Skills)
  • Project Management (Soft Skills)
  • Physical Security (Hard Skills)
  • Risk Compliance (Hard Skills)
  • Program Support (Soft Skills)
  • Tool Development (Hard Skills)
  • Risk Assessment (Hard Skills)

5. Information Security Intern, Resource Management Associates, LLC, Austin, TX

Job Summary: 

  • Assist with educational Cybersecurity content (e.g., articles, how-to videos, training courses) to train over 6,000 technical and non-technical members of the Option Care Health workforce about cybersecurity threats (e.g., phishing, ransomware).
  • Create and deliver national communications regarding various Cybersecurity efforts (e.g., project updates) to applicable members of the workforce through the appropriate channels (e.g., email, company portal).
  • Plan and host virtual Cybersecurity events to deliver Cybersecurity-specific content to members of the Option Care Health Ambassadors.
  • Assist the Chief Information Security Officer and Governance team with any special projects.
  • Work with the Governance team and subject matter experts to create, publish, and manage Information Security policies, standards and procedures.
  • Work with the Governance team to support the IT Risk Assessment and 3rd Party Risk Management programs.
  • Assist with communications regarding the Incident Response Management program.
  • Assist the Information Security Governance and Operations team with reporting and metrics.
  • Take notes and memos during meetings, and follow up on action items with stakeholders.
  • Enter risks into the organizational risk register, and follow up with stakeholders on risk remediation efforts.
  • Assist the Information Security Office and Team with other necessary tasks to advance the Information Security Mission and enhance security across the Option Care Health enterprise.


Skills on Resume:

  • Cybersecurity Training (Hard Skills)
  • Security Communication (Soft Skills)
  • Event Planning (Soft Skills)
  • Project Assistance (Soft Skills)
  • Policy Management (Hard Skills)
  • Risk Management (Hard Skills)
  • Incident Reporting (Hard Skills)
  • Data Metrics (Hard Skills)

6. Hardware Security Intern, Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance Co., Jackson, MS

Job Summary: 

  • Design and implement graphics processors with a focus on the memory subsystem.
  • Contribute to the development of products for the data center, desktop, laptop, workstation, set-top box and home networking markets.
  • Develop design or verification flows and tools.
  • Participate in hardware engineering activities, including RTL coding, design verification, chip floor plan, timing closure, power and noise analysis.
  • Collaborate with security architects to research, design and develop architecture solutions meeting internal and external security requirements and standards.
  • Identify vulnerabilities in SoCs or GPUs, build proof of concepts, and work with architecture teams to remediate.
  • Develop improvements to current hardware security tools and practices for bug hunting.
  • Use modern hardware tools for modeling new attack vectors and think like a potential attacker, breaking things and guiding effective fixes and defenses.


Skills on Resume:

  • Hardware Design (Hard Skills)
  • Product Development (Hard Skills)
  • Verification Tools (Hard Skills)
  • Chip Engineering (Hard Skills)
  • Security Collaboration (Soft Skills)
  • Vulnerability Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Tool Improvement (Hard Skills)
  • Problem Solving (Soft Skills)

7. Cyber Security Intern, Muscatine Power and Water, Muscatine, IA

Job Summary: 

  • Assist in third-party risk assessments.
  • Review audits of vendors.
  • Responsible for generating risk reports.
  • Generate new and improve existing information security process documents.
  • Assist in testing new and existing technologies for information security risk.
  • Perform limited security testing under the direction of an experienced penetration tester.
  • Work with the cybersecurity team to track and remediate internal and external cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
  • Assist with the creation of graphs and charts for reporting of risk posture.
  • Participate in change management activities to support successful system deployments and enhancements.


Skills on Resume:

  • Risk Assessment (Hard Skills)
  • Vendor Auditing (Hard Skills)
  • Risk Reporting (Hard Skills)
  • Process Documentation (Soft Skills)
  • Security Testing (Hard Skills)
  • Vulnerability Management (Hard Skills)
  • Data Visualization (Soft Skills)
  • Change Management (Soft Skills)

8. Information Security Intern, 360 Advanced Cybersecurity, LLC, Saint Petersburg, FL

Job Summary: 

  • Document information security requirements and management controls, information security and cybersecurity frameworks.
  • Develop control test scripts and document audit artifacts.
  • Communicate effectively with all stakeholders.
  • Perform benchmarks in various systems.
  • Work effectively in a fast-paced and constantly changing environment.
  • Work with the Incident Response team to discover, triage, and remediate security events across the global environment using world-class enterprise-grade security tools.
  • Work with the Vulnerability Management Lead to analyze and track remediation of system and application vulnerabilities across critical business systems.
  • Provide Security Operations support to other Beckman associates in effectively working with security controls during their daily work.
  • Assist with vulnerability reporting and tracking for specific applications, services, networks and servers.
  • Assist with Vendor Assessments and vendor risks remediation.
  • Research and evaluate applications and services for use by the agencies.
  • Assist with data analysis, fact gathering and reporting.


Skills on Resume:

  • Security Documentation (Hard Skills)
  • Control Testing (Hard Skills)
  • Effective Communication (Soft Skills)
  • System Benchmarking (Hard Skills)
  • Adaptability (Soft Skills)
  • Incident Response (Hard Skills)
  • Vulnerability Management (Hard Skills)
  • Security Support (Soft Skills)

9. Security Intern, IAT Insurance Group, Inc., Raleigh, NC

Job Summary: 

  • Responsible for assisting the Information Security team with protecting Saks' technology infrastructure, applications, customer data, and intellectual property.
  • Work with various teams within Information Security to gain broad experience within all facets of an InfoSec Program.
  • Identify malicious events, helping to identify security vulnerabilities within systems, and performing risk assessments against the latest technologies.
  • Analyze and track remediation of system and application vulnerabilities across critical business systems.
  • Provide support to the Information Security risk team to ensure effective execution of security controls.
  • Complete assigned information security tasks.
  • Responsible for monitoring security systems.
  • Responsible for assessing, detecting, analyzing, and investigating threats.
  • Create or update project documentation.
  • Test software to validate the accuracy of the code.
  • Participate in knowledge sharing with stakeholders to develop solutions efficiently.


Skills on Resume:

  • Infrastructure Protection (Hard Skills)
  • Security Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Vulnerability Assessment (Hard Skills)
  • Risk Management (Hard Skills)
  • Control Execution (Hard Skills)
  • Threat Investigation (Hard Skills)
  • Project Documentation (Soft Skills)
  • Team Collaboration (Soft Skills)

10. Security Intern, Winsupply, Moraine, OH

Job Summary: 

  • Responsible for the development of various tools and technologies that are utilized daily in industry to include.
  • Responsible for Enterprise Software Development to include the utilization of tools such as Java, C#, and Python.
  • Responsible for Cyber Security Analysis and Exploitation.
  • Work independently or in small teams to achieve rapidly changing and dynamic objectives.
  • Create an oral presentation to leadership personnel to include potential customers in an intern project.
  • Support the design and implementation of risk and security management plans, protocols, and initiatives.
  • Conduct independent analysis and produce threat trend analyses, policy papers, risk assessments, and tailored security reporting on countries where Abt personnel are deployed.
  • Promote the implementation of security best practices throughout the organization.
  • Assist in the development and facilitation of global security training initiatives for Abt staff.


Skills on Resume:

  • Software Development (Hard Skills)
  • Cybersecurity Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Risk Management (Hard Skills)
  • Independent Work (Soft Skills)
  • Presentation Skills (Soft Skills)
  • Security Planning (Hard Skills)
  • Threat Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Training Facilitation (Soft Skills)

11. Security Intern, Independent Bank, Grand Rapids, MI

Job Summary: 

  • Perform email spam monitoring activities.
  • Analyze email attachments to identify malicious behavior and Indicators of Compromise (IOCs).
  • Leverage the Security Information Event Management system.
  • Detect for the presence of Indicators of Compromise (IOCs)Low low-level scripting and dashboard creation.
  • Collaborate on the vulnerability integration (universal dashboard project).
  • Responsible for the cleanup Nessus agent.
  • Support the design and implementation of privileged access management systems.
  • Support of operational activities, e.g., incident handling, troubleshooting, etc.
  • Support with the implementation and configuration of PAM tools.


Skills on Resume:

  • Spam Monitoring (Hard Skills)
  • Malware Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • SIEM Utilization (Hard Skills)
  • IOC Detection (Hard Skills)
  • Dashboard Development (Hard Skills)
  • Vulnerability Integration (Hard Skills)
  • Access Management (Hard Skills)
  • Incident Support (Soft Skills)

12. Security Intern, REDLattice, Chantilly, VA

Job Summary: 

  • Assist the security department in administrative duties to include investigations.
  • Assist in database systems to include access and CCTV.
  • Responsible for conducting security audits.
  • Learn EMC culture, business processes and products.
  • Gain an understanding of the insurance claims process.
  • Participate in various networking events throughout the summer.
  • Attend "Lunch and Learn" events on various business and development topics.
  • Work with CNOB-partnered Not-for-Profit organizations.
  • Complete a team project during the internship.


Skills on Resume:

  • Security Administration (Hard Skills)
  • Database Management (Hard Skills)
  • Security Auditing (Hard Skills)
  • Business Learning (Soft Skills)
  • Process Understanding (Soft Skills)
  • Networking Events (Soft Skills)
  • Community Engagement (Soft Skills)
  • Team Collaboration (Soft Skills)

13. Security Intern, Labcorp, Burlington, NC

Job Summary: 

  • Contribute to research plans as part of a team, aligned with strategy, that have the potential for significant impact, advance new technologies, or lead to the creation of innovative approaches that can disrupt and create markets.
  • Collaborate effectively with industrial, academic, and internal partners, advancing research and receiving feedback on initial prototypes.
  • Create innovative solutions and evaluate them through the design and creation of initial prototypes.
  • Communicate the outcome and impact of research, both internally and externally, through publications in top-tier scientific journals and conferences, and presentations in relevant forums.
  • Assist department members in regular security functions and checks.
  • Provide informed feedback and recommendations on plans, products, and actions to increase operational effectiveness.
  • Effectively communicate security priorities to Novavax employees through formal and informal briefings, reports, and communications.
  • Identify global, regional, and local threats.
  • Independently contributes to department meetings and projects.
  • Assist with vetting security vendors.
  • Research and stay updated on potential global security threats that could impact production.
  • Assist with compiling tech scout and site assessment reports.
  • Provide timely, clear, concise communication to management, team members, and other stakeholders.
  • Participate in various production meetings.


Skills on Resume:

  • Research Development (Hard Skills)
  • Innovation Design (Hard Skills)
  • Prototype Creation (Hard Skills)
  • Scientific Communication (Soft Skills)
  • Operational Feedback (Soft Skills)
  • Security Monitoring (Hard Skills)
  • Threat Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Team Collaboration (Soft Skills)