Cyber Security Intern

Remote - US

Full time

JR934

Lyric is the trusted leader in healthcare decision intelligence. Built on more than 35 years of proven results, Lyric combines responsible AI with clinical, payment, regulatory, and policy expertise to deliver transparent, auditable insights in milliseconds across real-time claims workflows. Lyric augments human decision‑making so health plans can make faster, more accurate payments while maintaining full control. Today, Lyric supports 200 million lives, with nine of the top 10 U.S. health plans relying on its platform to reduce waste, improve efficiency, and support accurate payments.

Applicants must already be legally authorized to work in the U.S. Visa sponsorship/sponsorship assumption and other immigration support are not available for this position.

The Information Security Intern will support Lyric's Security team in protecting company systems, intellectual property, and customer data across cloud environments, corporate infrastructure, and endpoints.

This 12-week internship is designed for a student who has completed their third year of an Information Security, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related university program and is looking to apply their academic knowledge in a real-world technology environment.

Working alongside experienced security professionals, the intern will gain hands-on exposure to areas including cloud security, identity and access management (IAM), endpoint security, security monitoring and incident response, vulnerability management, data protection, and security automation.

The intern will contribute to meaningful projects while developing a practical understanding of how an enterprise security organization operates within an AI-forward healthcare technology company.

Prior professional information security experience is not required.

• Support the Security team in monitoring and maintaining security controls across AWS, Microsoft Azure, corporate networks, and endpoints
• Assist with security information and event management (SIEM) activities, including reviewing security events, analyzing logs, documenting findings, and learning how security detections are developed and tuned
• Gain exposure to endpoint detection and response (EDR) technologies and assist with endpoint security monitoring, policy reviews, and security investigations
• Support identity and access management (IAM) activities involving concepts such as single sign-on (SSO), multi‑factor authentication (MFA), role-based access, privileged access, and identity lifecycle management
• Assist Security team members with reviewing and investigating potential security alerts and documenting findings and recommended next steps
• Participate in the vulnerability management lifecycle, including reviewing vulnerability scan results, understanding risk prioritization, tracking remediation activities, and working with technology teams
• Assist with documenting security standards, procedures, technical controls, and response runbooks
• Learn how security configuration standards and frameworks are applied to cloud infrastructure, operating systems, networks, and applications
• Participate in security projects involving areas such as cloud security, data protection, threat detection, security automation, and vulnerability management
• Research emerging cybersecurity threats, technologies, and security practices and share findings with the Security team
• Develop an understanding of security considerations unique to healthcare technology and regulated environments
• Complete a defined internship project that addresses a real security opportunity or challenge and present findings and recommendations to Security and Technology leadership at the conclusion of the internship

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or a closely related technical field
• Expected to have completed the third year of undergraduate study prior to the start of the internship
• Academic coursework or demonstrated foundational knowledge in information security or cybersecurity
• Foundational understanding of computer networks, operating systems, applications, and general information technology concepts
• Familiarity through coursework, labs, projects, or independent learning with fundamental cybersecurity concepts such as:
  
  Authentication and access control
  
  Network security
  
  Vulnerability management
  
  Security monitoring
  
  Cloud security
  
  Data…