Cybersecurity Analyst resume example

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Daniel Kim
Cybersecurity Analyst
Phone: (555) 015-6612Email: daniel.kim@example.comLocation: Arlington, VA
Summary
Cybersecurity analyst with 4 years in SOC operations and vulnerability management. Security+ and CySA+ certified; hold an active Secret clearance. I tune detections so analysts spend time on real threats, not noise.
Education
2016 - 2020George Mason University
B.S. Cybersecurity Engineering
Experience
Jan 2023 - PresentManaged Security Services Provider
SOC Analyst II
Triage ~120 Splunk alerts per shift across 9 client environments; escalated and contained 38 confirmed incidents last year
Rewrote 45 correlation rules mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, cutting false positives 60%
Reduced mean time to respond from 4.5 hours to 1.2 hours by writing playbooks in the SOAR platform
Led phishing response for a 2,000-employee client, quarantining 340 malicious emails within 30 minutes
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022Federal Systems Contractor
Information Security Analyst
Ran monthly Tenable scans across 1,800 assets; drove critical-vulnerability remediation time from 45 to 14 days
Prepared NIST 800-53 control evidence supporting a successful ATO renewal
Hardened Windows and Linux baselines to CIS benchmarks
Skills
Certifications: CompTIA Security+, CySA+; active Secret clearance
SIEM & SOAR: Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk SOAR
Vulnerability management: Tenable Nessus, Qualys, CIS benchmarks
Frameworks: NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, MITRE ATT&CK
Endpoint & network: CrowdStrike Falcon, Wireshark, Palo Alto firewalls
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Three mistakes this example avoids

  • Listing every tool you've touched in a home lab as if it were production experience.
  • Omitting certifications or clearance status, which many postings use as a hard filter.
  • Vague claims like "improved security posture" with no incident counts, response times, or audit results.

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