Cybersecurity Operations and Response Intern

Group 1001 • Zionsville, IN

17h

About The Position

Group 1001 is a consumer-centric, technology-driven family of insurance companies on a mission to deliver outstanding value and operational performance by combining financial strength and stability with deep insurance expertise and a can-do culture. Group1001’s culture emphasizes the importance of collaboration, communication, core business focus, risk management, and striving for outcomes. This goal extends to how we hire and onboard our most valuable assets – our employees. Why This Role Matters: We are seeking a highly motivated intern to join our Security Operations team as an Operations and Response Intern. This role puts you directly in the action of finding cybersecurity threats, investigating leads, and helping secure our company. You will work alongside our Incident Response, Engineering, and Threat Hunting teams performing alert triage, analysis, and participating in efforts to expand our automation and artificial intelligence capabilities. This is a hands-on role where the work matters: expect to see how modern cyber defense actually operates in production, not just in a classroom or lab. This internship will establish a solid and highly marketable foundation for entering the Cybersecurity industry, exposing you to modern tools and solutions operated by a lean, highly capable, and well-connected team. The internship will run from May 18 to August 7, 2026.

Requirements

• Undergraduate students completing their sophomore or junior year pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, IT, or a related field
• Have a genuine interest in cybersecurity operations, incident response, or threat detection
• Are comfortable working in Linux/Windows environments and have basic familiarity with networking or security concepts (e.g., TCP/IP, logs, common attack types)
• Enjoy problem-solving, investigation, and learning new tools
• Communicate clearly and work well in a collaborative team environment
• Availability to work full-time hours over the summer.
• Are self-motivated, curious, and eager to take ownership of a real project

Responsibilities

• Assist with alert triage and analysis, reviewing security alerts and helping determine which events need deeper investigation
• Collaborate with Incident Response, Engineering, and Threat Hunting teams on real investigations and response efforts
• Help develop and enhance automation and AI-driven workflows that make our cybersecurity operations faster and smarter
• Contribute to the design, testing, and improvement of security tools and processes used by the team
• Participate in threat hunting activities, looking proactively for indicators of compromise and suspicious behavior
• Complete a capstone project that delivers a meaningful improvement to our security operations (for example, building a new detection, improving an automation, or enhancing a monitoring dashboard)

Benefits

• Employees who meet benefit eligibility guidelines and work 30 hours or more weekly, have the ability to enroll in Group 1001’s benefits package.
• Employees (and their families) are eligible to participate in the Company’s comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plan options.
• Employees are also eligible for Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance, Short and Long-Term Disability.
• All employees (regardless of hours worked) have immediate access to the Company’s Employee Assistance Program and wellness programs—no enrollment is required.
• Employees may also participate in the Company’s 401K plan, with matching contributions by the Company.
• Group 1001, and its affiliated companies, is strongly committed to providing a supportive work environment where employee differences are valued. Diversity is an essential ingredient in making Group 1001 a welcoming place to work and is fundamental in building a high-performance team. Diversity embodies all the differences that make us unique individuals. All employees share the responsibility for maintaining a workplace culture of dignity, respect, understanding and appreciation of individual and group differences.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees