Aisha Rahman
aisha.rahman@email.com · 703-555-0166 · Arlington, VA
Professional Summary
Cybersecurity analyst with 5+ years protecting cloud and on-prem environments. Experienced in threat detection, incident response, and hardening controls aligned to NIST and CIS benchmarks.
Experience
Cybersecurity Analyst · Capitol Secure
Arlington, VA • 2021–Present
- Monitored SIEM alerts for 2K+ endpoints; reduced mean time to contain by 28%.
- Led tabletop exercises with engineering and legal for ransomware playbooks.
- Hardened AWS accounts using CIS benchmarks; closed 60+ high-risk findings.
- Partnered with IT to roll out MFA and phishing simulations across 800 employees.
SOC Analyst · East Coast Defense IT
Reston, VA • 2019–2021
- Triaged Tier-1/Tier-2 alerts in Splunk and documented escalation paths.
- Investigated phishing campaigns and coordinated inbox remediation with Microsoft 365.
- Wrote detection content that caught a recurring credential-stuffing pattern.
IT Security Intern · Potomac Networks
Washington, DC • 2018–2019
- Supported vulnerability scans with Nessus and tracked remediation tickets.
- Drafted security awareness tips published on the company intranet.
- Assisted with access reviews for privileged accounts each quarter.
Education
George Mason University
B.S. in Cyber Security Engineering
Fairfax, VA · May 2019
Projects
Home Lab Detection Stack • 2022
- Built a Suricata + ELK lab to practice detection engineering and writing Sigma rules.
Skills
SIEM (Splunk), Incident Response, AWS Security, Nessus, Wireshark, NIST CSF, Identity & Access, Threat Hunting, Python
Certifications
CompTIA Security+, AWS Certified Security – Specialty
