CHRISTOPHER REED
Cybersecurity Analyst
Reston, VA · c.reed@email.com · (555) 762-4415
Summary
Cybersecurity analyst with 6 years in SOC operations, incident response, and vulnerability management for financial services and government clients. Reduced mean-time-to-detect from 4 hours to 22 minutes and led remediation of 200+ critical vulnerabilities.
Experience
Cybersecurity Analyst II · Capital One
2021 - Present
- Triage 150+ SIEM (Splunk) alerts/day, reducing mean-time-to-detect from 4 hours to 22 minutes
- Led incident response for a phishing campaign affecting 3,000 accounts, containing spread within 90 minutes
- Directed quarterly vulnerability scans across 500+ endpoints, driving remediation of 200+ critical findings within SLA
- Map 40+ detection rules to MITRE ATT&CK techniques, closing coverage gaps across 6 tactics
- Automate alert enrichment with a Python and Splunk SOAR playbook, saving analysts 10 hrs/week
SOC Analyst · Booz Allen Hamilton
2019 - 2021
- Monitored network traffic for a federal client using CrowdStrike EDR, reducing false-positive alert volume by 40%
- Authored 15 incident-response runbooks aligned to NIST 800-61, cutting average response time by 30%
- Investigated 300+ monthly endpoint alerts in CrowdStrike Falcon, isolating 18 infected hosts
- Presented threat briefings to a 12-person federal team using MITRE ATT&CK and intel feeds
IT Security Intern · Leidos
2017 - 2019
- Reviewed 80+ daily Splunk alerts with analysts, escalating 12 confirmed incidents to Tier 2
- Documented 25 asset inventory records in ServiceNow, improving patch-tracking accuracy by 20%
- Ran weekly Nessus vulnerability scans on 60 workstations, logging findings for remediation
Education
B.S. Cybersecurity — George Mason University · 2019
Skills
SIEM (Splunk), CrowdStrike EDR, Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Management, NIST 800-53, MITRE ATT&CK, Firewalls, Security+, Risk Assessment
Certifications
CISSP, (ISC)2
CompTIA Security+, CompTIA
GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), GIAC
Projects
Built a home SOC lab with Splunk, Suricata, and Zeek to detect 30+ attack scenarios
Developed Python scripts parsing MITRE ATT&CK data to auto-generate detection coverage reports
Languages
English (Native), Spanish (Conversational)
Interests
Capture-the-flag competitions, home lab networking, threat-intel blogging, trail running
