TrendAI™, the global AI security leader and enterprise business unit of Trend Micro, empowers organizations with full AI visibility and consolidated security that inspires confidence, drives innovation, and eliminates risk.
At TrendAI™, we’re always seeking exceptional talent; people who want to collaborate with the best and push boundaries together. Here, your work goes beyond building a career. You will help protect what matters and play a vital role in shaping a safer, more trustworthy AI-powered future.
AI Fearlessly.
We hire for capability and potential — not credentials alone. At TrendAI, you get real access: to senior people, to genuinely hard problems, and to work that actually moves things forward. You will have a voice, an opinion, and the freedom to use both and to be the best part of yourself.
TrendAI is on a deliberate path to become a fully AI Native company. This means rebuilding how we think, how we build, and how we operate, with AI at the foundation rather than bolted on at the edges.
If you join now, you are not walking into something already figured out — you are joining at the moment it is being built. The skills you develop here will make you genuinely formidable in one of the most in-demand areas in tech. The people who join at this stage will have had a hand in shaping what TrendAI becomes. That is a rare thing.
This is a paid 8-month work placement where you will join TrendAI's Managed Detection and Response Operations Team. You will also take part in our Career Success Ready Programme — designed to support you and to set you up for a successful career, not just to get through the placement. We have a strong track record of converting placements into graduate roles. Over the last five years, 82% of our intern graduates have gone on to join us permanently. There may also be opportunities to travel to other European offices and work with colleagues from across the globe — we have 27 different nationalities in our Cork Operations Centre.
Do you have a passion for securing a safe digital environment for our customers? We are looking for a motivated Security Incident Analyst Intern to join our Managed Detection and Response Operations team in our European Operations Centre in Cork. You will have a solid aptitude for technical problem solving and analytical skills and an eye for fine detail regarding security breaches. You should have a real passion for securing a safe digital environment for our clients and providing actionable analysis of the threats observed during your investigation of their logs.
Our focus in the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) team is to deliver our customers with services that fit their expectations around targeted attacks/threat incident investigation/analysis/mitigation as a part of Trend’s MDR service. During your internship you will be fully involved with and supported by the team as you embark on the following.
- You will have the opportunity to learn about the threats our customers are exposed to by handling cases related to threats from our customer base.
- You will assist in responding to Enterprise customer reported security incidents.
- You will have the opportunity to collect and review data relevant to investigations.
- You will communicate directly with our customers via email and phone calls to inform them of breaches, threats, risks, or relevant intelligence.
- You can keep up to date with knowledge of advanced persistent threats, how attackers operate and forensic analysis methods.
- Currently participating in a bachelor’s degree in Security and Forensics, Cybercrime, Computer Science or related technical discipline.
- Experienced in network forensics analytics, threat analysis and incident response frameworks/techniques.
- Highly analytical with the ability to derive facts quickly, methodically, and accurately.
- Capable of working autonomously and contributing to workflow and process improvements.
- Flexible with the ability to respond quickly to high priority issues.
- Keen eye for detail when producing monthly customer reports.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills for both internal and external audiences.
- An understanding of principles of ethical hacking, firewall and intrusion detection/prevention technologies, secure coding practices and threat modelling.
- Knowledge of malware infection channels. Examples include: C&C, malware exploit kits and iframe/Java vulnerabilities.
- Knowledge of Windows and Linux environments.
- Expertise in analysis of TCP/IP network communication protocols such as SMTP, FTP, HTTP, DNS, SSL, Authentication.
- Experience with large organization secure network architectures, virtualization technologies, identity and access management principles, application security, encryption technologies, DNS, Email and web applications.
- Thrive in a collaborative environment sharing knowledge and expertise with customers and colleagues.
At Trend Micro, we embrace change, empower people, and encourage innovation in a connected world. Our diversity and multicultural workforce are key contributing factors to our success across the globe. We like to have fun while taking our culture seriously. We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to this regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, nationality, age, citizenship, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or veteran status. We do not allow discrimination or harassment of any kind.
