SOC Analyst Cover Letter

In response to your job posting for SOC analyst, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

In my previous role, I was responsible for enterprise threat analysis (assessment) by reviewing Regions potential and current threats based upon a defined and repeatable threat and vulnerability analysis methodology.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Good understanding of security and audit standards
• The job requires on call duty
• Network traffic tools, techniques and analysis
• Host forensics tools, techniques and analysis
• Malware reverse engineering tools, techniques and analysis
• IDS & IPS technologies, both signature and behavior based
• Knowledge of SSAE16, SOC1, SOC2, SOC3
• Experience with application systems including configuration of business rules, roles and permissions

I would like to submit my application for the SOC analyst opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In the previous role, I was responsible for threat detection analysis and monitoring, correlation, and prevention of cyber threat activity targeting the customer network.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Attend all department calls and take relevant actionable notes on reported incidents, then provide meeting minutes to CRS for technical writing review (e.g.US-CERT call, CCAR)
• Triage all reports received per 3rd party, determine impact and escalate if necessary
• Create Turnover Report for current shift
• Research and review potential Threat Hunting/Personal Development Training/Tool Advancement Training
• Address items and incidents from shift turnover
• Support off hour analysis requests
• Report on weekly statistics from RiskVision on the number of cases/traffic notifications processed
• Determine which cases and/or trends should be documented in turnover and reported to Tier 2 for further trending efforts

I am excited to be applying for the position of SOC analyst. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

Previously, I was responsible for initial and ongoing threat analysis, threat forecasts and trends, and threat alerts with recommended countermeasures, to include UAM and UEBA filters/policies to detect threat activities.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Public Accounting or Private firm information technology experience will be considered
• Escalate security investigations and analysis to day shift Tier 2 analysts and Research & Forensics (R&F)
• Process investigations escalated from Tier 1 analysts and provide guidance as needed
• Conduct thorough packet capture (PCAP) analysis by looking for each PCAP instance and report any trends
• Escalate relevant IOCs to R&F and HTOC to determine whether IOCs should be added to department feed and HTOC ThreatConnect
• Report any trends on traffic associated with various types of security incidents identified by previous shift analysts
• Create, track and escalate internal case investigations through network analysis
• Contribute and review usefulness of open source blogs/feeds by following SOPs

I would like to submit my application for the SOC analyst opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In my previous role, I was responsible for subject matter expertise in security threat analysis, hunting, detection and response across Guidewire’s Production and Corp IT environments.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Contribute to rotation (once per month) of informational whitepapers from the analysis team
• Ensure there are no outstanding tasks for escalation to SOC leadership
• Coordinate activities escalated from previous shift
• Stay aware of any highly visible incidents and be prepared to brief SOC leadership on all details
• Review Quality Awareness & Control documents be dissemination to entire SOC team
• Coordinate with SD on any emails or RiskVision incidents, to include internal and external requests involving initial vetting of IOCs
• Escalate incidents to Senior Analysts (Tier 2) for advice and senior level review
• Contribute relevant Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) and other items of interest discovered during daily investigations to Tier 2 for vetting and assistance in determining whether or not they should be added to department feeds

Please consider me for the SOC analyst opportunity. I am including my resume that lists my qualifications and experience.

In the previous role, I was responsible for security monitoring, threat/risk analysis, and rapid response to security alerts and events in a 24/7 SOC environment.

I reviewed the requirements of the job opening and I believe my candidacy is an excellent fit for this position. Some of the key requirements that I have extensive experience with include:

• Address items from shift turnover and brief next shift on any pertinent news
• Analyze scan results and create remediation plans for systems
• Work with end users to help resolve vulnerabilities
• Preferred Tools - Rapid7 Nexpose and AppSpider
• Insure systems are up to date on antivirus definitions and communicating with endpoint protection management servers
• Develop exclusion policies to ensure compatibility with applications
• Troubleshoot issues related to antivirus installation
• Preferred Tools - McAfee ePO and/or Cylance