[Your Name]
Cybersecurity Analyst · SOC & Threat Detection
[City] · [email@example.com] · [Phone] · [linkedin.com/in/yourname]
Summary
Early-career security analyst with hands-on SOC experience monitoring alerts, investigating incidents and documenting findings. Quick learner with a solid grounding in networks, identity and common attack techniques.
Skills
SIEM (Splunk / Microsoft Sentinel) · Incident triage · Vulnerability scanning (Nessus) · Network fundamentals (TCP/IP) · Identity & access management · MITRE ATT&CK · Linux & Windows security · Incident reports
Experience
SOC Analyst (L1)2024 – Present
[Company], [City]
- Triage 60+ security alerts per shift and escalate confirmed incidents within SLA.
- Tuned 25 noisy detection rules, cutting false positives by 35%.
- Wrote incident reports and playbooks for phishing and malware cases.
IT Support Intern2023 – 2024
[Company], [City]
- Handled account access requests and enforced password and MFA policies for 500 users.
- Ran monthly vulnerability scans and tracked fixes with system owners.
Projects
Home SOC lab
Splunk, Sysmon, Kali Linux, Windows Server
- Built a lab with a domain controller and endpoints, simulated attacks and wrote detection rules mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.
Phishing analysis playbook
Microsoft Sentinel, VirusTotal, email headers
- Wrote a step-by-step playbook to analyse and contain phishing emails, tested on 20 sample cases.
Education
B.Sc, Computer Science — [University], 2023
Certifications
- CompTIA Security+
- Certified in Cybersecurity (ISC2 CC)