Cyber Security (Threat Detection & Incident Response) Intern

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Cyber Security (Threat Detection & Incident Response) Intern

Internship Period: 12 January 2026 - 31 Jul 2026

Job Description:

We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Cybersecurity Intern (Threat Detection and Incident Response) to join our team. In this role, you will assist in identifying, assessing, and management vulnerabilities within the organization’s IT infrastructure. The intern will gain hands-on experience in cybersecurity, specifically Incident response, SOC alert management and detection engineering, while contributing to the ongoing improvement of our security posture.

•    Contribute to Incident Response procedures to allow timely response in the event of an incident to facilitate recovery and minimize impact to the Bank.
•    Initiate appropriate malware triage processes to assess threat types, severity impact, and occurrence likelihood based on current controls and environment.
•    Assist the team in daily security event monitoring for various cyber threats such as advanced malware threats, vulnerability exploits, denial of service and other forms of cyber-attacks.
•    Able to review network intrusion, vulnerability exploits and denial of service attempts to mitigate the risk of cyber-attacks.
•    Handling Security operation tasks like Security operations mailbox management, Investigating Phishing emails, Alert escalations from SOC.
•    Analyse cyber threat intelligence to identify indicators of compromise, threat artefacts and attributes from different sources.
•    Perform security policy management to continuously monitor and enhance technical rules, policies, and configuration in security systems to enhance security protection and coverage of operational end-to-end processes.
•    Contribute by gathering the information for KRI metrics, Monthly reporting etc.
•    Ensure consistent level of security policy management and system monitoring for regional security systems to provide adequate security protection and coverage.
•    Contribute to the implementation of initiatives to reduce meantime to response through automation of detections.

Job Requirements:

•    Self-driven and independent, able to learn and identify options for problem solving, think analytically and enable informed decisions to be made by the team with consideration of trade-offs
•    Enthusiastic and positive attitude
•    Passionate to learn about Cybersecurity and IT Risk Management
•    Strong communication, writing and presentation skills
•    Preferable to have some programming / scripting knowledge

IMPORTANT NOTE 

1.    Interested applicants will be required to submit CV and Cover Letter
2.    Please submit your details via our early careers website at Careers (myworkdayjobs.com)
3.    Do note that only shortlisted applicants will be notified 

This internship role is based in Singapore. It is open to Singaporean and PR students only. In Singapore, MUFG internship partners include National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Management University, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS).
 

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is an equal opportunity employer. We view our employees as our key assets as they are fundamental to our long-term growth and success. MUFG is committed to hiring based on merit and organsational fit, regardless of race, religion or gender.