Spring 2027 Cybersecurity Analyst Internships

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Spring 2027 Cybersecurity Analyst Internships

Southwest Airlines is committed to providing Employees with equal opportunities for learning and personal growth. As a Technology Intern, you’llwillcontribute to real-time projects, collaborate with fellow interns and cross-functional teams, help advance Company initiatives, and support Southwest’s Purpose of connecting People to what’s important in their lives through friendly, reliable, and low-cost air travel. Throughout the internship, you’ll have the opportunity to learn, grow, and develop as a future professional while making a meaningful impact. The Cybersecurity Analyst Intern should be a strong communicator and collaborator, capable of presenting ideas in both technical and user-friendly terms while helping shape the future of Southwest’s Technology Team.

The Intern will work full-time as a CybersecurityAnalystIntern within the Technology Department. The Intern may be asked to support a variety of projects within one or more of the following Teams:

Threat Informed Defense:

The Threat-Informed Defense Team helps strengthen Southwest's cybersecurity posture through Threat Intelligence, Threat Hunting, and Adversary Emulation. As a Cybersecurity Intern, you will work alongside experienced cybersecurity professionals to investigate emerging threats, identify malicious activity, and simulate real-world attacks using advanced security tools and threat intelligence platforms. You'll gain hands-on exposure to industry-leading frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK while collaborating across Cybersecurity and Technology teams to improve detection and defense capabilities. This internship provides a unique opportunity to develop practical cybersecurity skills while helping protect one of the nation's largest airlines from evolving cyber threats.

Cybersecurity GRC:

The Cybersecurity Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Team helps Southwest identify, manage, and reduce cybersecurity risk while enabling the business to operate securely and responsibly. As a Cybersecurity Intern, you will gain hands-on experience supporting security frameworks, risk assessments, compliance programs, privacy initiatives, cybersecurity metrics and reporting, and emerging areas such as AI governance. You'll collaborate with stakeholders across Technology and business teams to help strengthen governance practices and support organizational risk management efforts. This internship offers valuable exposure to cybersecurity leadership, governance, risk management, compliance, privacy, audit, and security operations while contributing to the team's mission of protecting and enabling the business through proactive risk management and strong security controls.

Additional Details

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The Intern will work full-time as a CybersecurityAnalystIntern within the Technology Department.This role is offered as a remote workplace position, which may require travel for trainings, meetings, conferences, etc. Outside of thoserequiredvisits,the majority ofyour working time may be spent in an approved remote location, away from our Corporate Campus. Please note, while this is a remote position, there is limited group of states or localities ineli