An IT Security Manager specializes in all things security for an organization’s information technology, including protection, disaster recovery, virus detection, security breach response, and more. Especially for certain industries such as health or finance, it is of the utmost importance for companies to properly protect sensitive customer data. When crafting your IT Security Manager resume, emphasize your expertise in the cybersecurity space and detail your relevant skills and certifications.

A cyber security analyst is a professional who works to protect a company from cyber security hardware and software attacks. In addition to typical IT tasks like ensuring the organization’s software is up-to-date and monitoring networks for potential attacks or security risks, they also educate employees in other departments about potential security risks and how to avoid them. The best security analysts are also researching new security threats to stay ahead of constantly changing threats.

This resume effectively shows a mid-level cyber security professional’s ongoing growth and specialization. They have an excellent foundation with a computer science degree, obtained a cyber security specialization certificate, and applied it to their career path. Since the analyst wants to specialize in government and private security, it’s extremely effective to list their security clearance front and center.

In some ways, you can think of a cyber security engineer as a higher-level cyber security analyst. A cyber security engineer performs many of the same tasks but is working at a higher level on the network as well as more strategically. Often, they’ll use tools like penetration tests to see where the vulnerabilities are in their system and are the architects of programs to combat them. They’re usually the go-to person for creating and explaining security procedures and protocols of a company.

As an applicant with 10+ years of relevant experience, this job seeker is right to focus more on their impressive job experience, letting the skill box become secondary. He or she allocates more space to their recent experience, which brings together their technical skills with their ability to manage teams. This puts them in competition for top-tier jobs roles, like a chief information security officer (CISO).

Cyber security consultants perform many of the same functions as cyber security engineers, but they are hired (either as agencies or individuals) to work for clients. Often this means that they’re evaluating systems for vulnerabilities, setting up a new and functional system, and then leaving the client to maintain the system with internal personnel.

Cyber security consultants represent a unique skill set in the industry. Because they are hired from outside of the organization in need, they have to have equally high standards in their ability to work with diverse companies, understanding and communicating with those they often don’t have long-term relationships with, and in their wide but deep technical expertise, which allows them to recognize problems efficiently and in different settings. Unlike other roles in the cyber security industry, consultants are constantly proving their worth (just as a freelancer would).

A cyber security specialist is integral to the creation of networks. They are less focused on training fellow employees for vulnerabilities and are more focused on system-wide security threats and incursions. As such, they are most important when a company is setting up their network in the first place.

At first glance, this resume looks very similar to the third resume example. Both are great examples of employees with 10+ years experience and advanced degrees. However, this resume highlights the job seeker’s ability to work well within an organization. They highlight excellent technical skills, but also their ability to train employees within the company on new security threats.

An entry-level cyber security professional has not specialized in any of the above career roles, of course. Often they come from a computer science background, though some programs are starting to offer cyber security-specific degrees.

As this is an entry-level resume, it’s entirely appropriate that the educational experience is listed first. However, this resume also lists excellent hands-on experience in both cyber security internships and volunteer projects as well as extra curricular activities. The skills section also rounds out experience with skills that aren’t necessarily related, but could certainly be useful (i.e. language skills). Most of all as an entry-level professional, you want to show that you have been eager to learn and apply yourself to the cyber security industry.