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Cybersecurity Analyst resume example

A cybersecurity analyst resume that shows incidents handled, risks reduced and the controls you built, with certifications up front.

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Aisha Rahman

Cybersecurity Analyst

Security analyst with five years in a 24/7 security operations centre and on cloud security. I find the real threats in the noise and fix the gaps that let them in.

Experience

Cybersecurity Analyst, Maple Financial 2021–now

Bank with 3,000 staff.

  • Triage 200 alerts a day; tuned detection rules to cut false positives by 60%.
  • Led response to a phishing campaign: contained in two hours, no accounts lost.
  • Ran the phishing simulation programme; click rates fell from 14% to 3%.

SOC Analyst, SecureOps 2019–2021

Managed security provider.

  • Monitored 30 client networks in Splunk and escalated incidents by playbook.
  • Wrote 20 playbooks that became the team standard.

Education

BTech, Computer Security, Ryerson University 2019

Certifications

CompTIA Security+, CompTIA 2019

GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), GIAC 2022

Skills

  • Security: Incident response, Threat hunting, Vulnerability management, Cloud security
  • Tools: Splunk, CrowdStrike, Wireshark, Nessus
  • Cloud: AWS, Azure