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Information security officer resume examples from 2025

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Updated March 26, 2025
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How to write an information security officer resume

Craft a resume summary statement

A resume summary is your opening statement that highlights your strongest skills and top accomplishments. It is your chance to quickly let recruiters know who you are professionally - and why they should hire you for the information security officer role.

Step 1: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.

Step 2: Include your years of experience in information security officer-related roles. Consider adding relevant company and industry experience as relevant to the job listing.

Step 3: Highlight your greatest accomplishments. Here is your chance to make sure your biggest wins aren't buried in your resume.

Step 4: Again, keep it short. Your goal is to summarize your experience and highlight your accomplishments, not write a paragraph.

Hiring managers spend under a minute reviewing resumes on average. This means your summary needs to demonstrate your value quickly and show why you are the perfect fit for the information security officer position.

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List the right project manager skills

Many resumes are filtered out by hiring software before a human eye ever sees them. A robust Skills section can let recruiters (and bots) know you have the skills to do the job. Here is how to make the most of your skills section:

  1. Look at the job listing and skills listed. You need to include the exact keywords from the job description to get your resume in front of an actual human. Do you have those skills? Fantastic! Be sure to list them.
  2. Include as many relevant hard or technical information security officer skills as possible for each job you apply to.
  3. Be specific with the skills you have and be sure you are using the most up to date and accurate terms.
These five steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some information security officer interviews.

Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on an information security officer resume:

  • Risk Management
  • Risk Assessments
  • Incident Response
  • Infrastructure
  • Governance
  • ISO
  • Architecture
  • HIPAA
  • Windows
  • Security Incidents
  • Vulnerability Testing
  • Security Management
  • Cloud Security
  • Security Awareness
  • CIO
  • Lifecycle Management
  • SOC
  • Data Loss Prevention
  • SOX
  • PCI-DSS
  • Security Risk Assessment
  • Encryption
  • Software Development
  • SIEM
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Vulnerability Assessments
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Risk Analysis
  • Executive Management
  • Internal Audit

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How to structure your work experience

Next you should include your work experience. Structure your work experience section by listing your most recent experience first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order.

Start with your job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.

Include only recent, relevant jobs. Avoid including work experience over 20 years to avoid ageism.

Beneath each job, you should have bullet points to emphasize why you're the perfect fit for the information security officer.

How to write information security officer experience bullet points

Remember, your resume is not a list of responsibilities or a job description. This is your chance to show why you're good at your job and what you accomplished.

Use the XYZ formula for your work experience bullet points. Here's how it works:

  • Use strong action verbs like Led, Built, or Optimized.
  • Follow up with numbers when possible to support your results. How much did performance improve? How much revenue did you drive?
  • Wrap it up by explaining the actions you took to achieve the result and how you made an impact.

This creates bullet points that read Achieved X, measured by Y, by doing Z.

Here are examples from great information security officer resumes:

Work history example #1

Data Center Manager

United Parcel Service

  • Created and implemented safety, security, and loss prevention procedures in accordance with Company, OSHA, and DOT guidelines.
  • Maintained and designed databases in access and through SQL that produced reports on production numbers and ran queries on the spot.
  • Facilitated cost reduction and improved DOT and OSHA compliance through development and execution of newly promoted supervisor development plans.
  • Improved accuracy of payroll journal entries by developing and implementing a payroll reconciliation tool.
  • Employed Responsible for correcting over 1,000 mislabeled packages per night in a timely and proficient manner.

Work history example #2

Information Security Officer

Ernst & Young

  • Assessed needs and directed project resources as key communication liaison between client management and technical staff.
  • Introduced and developed the social security number usage and privacy policy.
  • Coordinated quality assurance testing for user interfaces.
  • Supported WIN95, WIN2000 and Windows XP operating systems.
  • Developed security standards for multiple operating systems, networks, applications, and security devices.

Work history example #3

Vice President And Manager

OMEGA PSI PHI FRATERNITY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION

  • Developed and manage the implementation process, and develop process and procedures for implementation project managers.
  • Initiated standardization of procedures and call scripting ensuring alignment of resource performance with regulatory standards and consistent delivery of customer care.
  • Developed frontier risk assessment process to determine impact of portfolio exposure from product and geographical concentrations.
  • Developed firm wide applications including a composite application, intranet applications, and top down / bottom up equity modeling efforts.
  • Established challenging expectations, developed policies/procedures, and monitored quality/productivity.

Work history example #4

Director Of Technology And Services

AT&T

  • Led Desktop Support Team in support of 1000 clients for the SBC Long Distance Company.
  • Conducted training of all new hire employees and contractors over 5-year period, maintaining 100% compliance with corporate SLA standards.
  • Saved a $1 Billion Human Resource/Payroll/Invoicing system by leading cross-functional teams to identify critical feeder systems.
  • Managed Development/Sandbox Data Center consisting of AIX and Windows servers and 21 TB NAS drive.
  • Established regional IT architecture group representing 20 countries to create equipment standards and ensure corporate compliance.

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Add an education section to your resume

Employers are looking for a few things when looking at the Education section of your resume:
  • The highest degree you have achieved.
  • TWhere you attended school, and the dates (Although if you graduated some time ago, leave the date off to avoid ageism)
  • TField of study
  • TAny honors, relevant coursework, achievements, or pertinent activities

Here are some examples of good education entries from information security officer resumes:

Bachelor's Degree in computer systems security

Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI

2004 - 2007

Bachelor's Degree in computer science

New York University, New York, NY

1994 - 1997

Highlight your information security officer certifications on your resume

Certifications are a great way to showcase special expertise or niche skills. Some jobs even require certifications to be hired.

To list, use the full name of the certification and the organization that issued it, along with the date of achievement.

If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your information security officer resume:

  1. Certified Information Systems Security Professional - Architecture (CISSP)
  2. Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
  3. Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
  4. Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
  5. Certification in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC)
  6. IT Information Library Foundations Certification (ITIL)
  7. Project Management Professional (PMP)
  8. Security 5 Certification
  9. CompTIA Radio Frequency Identification (RFID+) Certification (CompTIA)
  10. GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC)

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