Tech students and cybersecurity enthusiasts in India, your breakthrough moment has arrived! Microsoft is rolling out its Security Assurance Internship 2026 across multiple locations like Bangalore, Hyderabad, Noida, and Mumbai, offering ₹25,000 to ₹50,000 per month stipends for hands-on experience in threat analysis and secure development. Perfect for 2025-2027 batch B.Tech/B.E. students in CS, IT, or ECE, this paid internship builds real-world skills for top cybersecurity careers amid India’s booming ₹2.6 lakh crore cyber market by 2027.
With applications on a rolling basis, spots fill fast—ideal for Gurugram-based students seeking remote/hybrid options. Dive into vulnerability hunting, incident response, and mentorship from Microsoft engineers. Read on for full eligibility, application steps, and tips to land this elite Microsoft internship 2026!
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What is Microsoft Security Assurance Internship?
Microsoft’s Security Assurance Intern role immerses you in operational security, helping analyze threats, model risks, and engineer fixes for global products like Azure and Windows. You’ll collaborate with security pros on real projects: threat trend analysis, vulnerability mitigation, policy design, and incident response simulations.
This 3-6 month program (extendable) runs at Microsoft India Development Centers (IDC) in multiple locations—Bangalore (main hub), Hyderabad, Noida, and Mumbai. Hybrid formats suit Tier-2/3 city students, with some remote flexibility. Job ID: 200019874 (check careers.microsoft.com).
Key Focus Areas:
- Secure software development lifecycle (SDLC).
- Threat modeling and anomaly detection.
- Hands-on tools: Azure Sentinel, Microsoft Defender, penetration testing basics.
- Team projects with global impact.
Unlike generic internships, this ties into Microsoft’s cybersecurity push, including AI-driven threat hunting—perfect for GenAI hackathon participants building secure AI models.
Overview
Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of University interns from every corner of the world. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential—and excitement for the journey ahead.
As a Security Assurance Intern, under supervision, you will analyze, engineer solutions and mitigate security issues through the design, policy, threat modeling, assurance program design, education, thought leadership and facilitation roles around secure software development and operational security assurance. You will support operational security and security incidents as well as security reviews and reporting. You will help plan and support research into security issues and partners across security disciplines to address issues.
About the Role
At Microsoft, Interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You’ll be empowered to build community, explore your passions and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
- Analyze threat trends and anomalies to determine operational impact. Determines vectors that introduce threat and potential mitigation strategies. Learns about systemic security issues and how to address them. Understands common deployment scenarios, dependencies, and data flow in overall analysis.
- Identify security defects or vulnerabilities and escalates as neededand identify deficiencies in security guidance to determine scope of potential impact and identifies relevant parties to involve.
- Begin to address security issues with customers and/or partners in a timely manner and use appropriate tools to isolate and solve identified issues and respond to customer and partner security issues, investigates solutions, coordinates response from appropriate parties and follows up with customers to ensure that issues are resolved and escalate issues as needed.
- Contribute to analysis report and communicate finding and recommendation to decision makers.
- Schedule security analysis including scope, priorities and overall security guarantees of a solution or application and adjust plan to respond to findings, schedule and priority changes.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree
- Must have at least one semester/term of school remaining following the completion of the internship
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Insights from previous hires
Top skills
Computer Science
Previously worked as
1. Principal Researcher
2. Senior Security Engineer
3. Security Researcher
4. Senior Security Specialist
5. Software Security Engineer
Perks and benefits
Flexibility :- Balance what matters—your work, your life, and your team—through trust, autonomy, and shared accountability
Growth :- Stretch your skills, expand your impact, and grow with support that meets you where you are
Wellbeing :- Support for your body, mind, and financial future—so you can stay energized and do your best work
Community :- Find your people, build your network, and feel supported every step of the way
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Application Process
Applications are rolling—apply today via official links before positions close!
- Visit Careers Portal: Go to careers.microsoft.com, search “Security Assurance Intern” or Job ID 200019874.
- Profile Setup: Create/login with LinkedIn/Email; upload resume (1-page: projects, skills, GitHub).
- Application Form: Answer 3-5 questions (e.g., “Describe a security vulnerability you fixed”).
- Coding Test: HackerRank-style (1-2 hours: Python/SQL challenges).
- Interviews: 2-3 rounds—technical (threat modeling), behavioral, manager chat (virtual).
- Offer: Rolling decisions within 2-4 weeks.
Direct Links (from listings):
- Apply: Security Assurance Intern
- Unstop: Microsoft Internships
- TalentD: Apply Here
Tailor resume with keywords: “threat analysis,” “secure coding.” Prep via LeetCode cyber section.
How to Apply?
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