Aditya Singh Jadon

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Aditya Singh Jadon

Computer Science and Engineering · Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow

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Fundamentals of Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity · June 2026

84/ 100

A verified, self-directed industry project — completed and passed a real industry rubric at 84/100 on ProoV.

Graded against

  • Threat Triage & Detection20%
  • Log Analysis & Investigation30%
  • Incident Response & Containment20%
  • Compliance & Breach Notification15%
  • Executive Communication & Lessons15%

Passed · pass mark 60/100

What stood out6
  • Correctly identified the phishing email as malicious and caught most critical red flags with no false positives.
  • Found the anomalous sign-in pattern, including impossible travel, and selected the correct IoCs for blocking.
  • Sequenced containment actions sensibly by cutting access first before broader remediation.
  • Transferred lessons to the real Continental case with a concrete, evidence-based control recommendation.
  • Data-Driven Decision Making
  • Incident Response Reasoning
The work I submitted10 tasks

Phishing Triage

My solution
{"prompt":"Flag the red flags in the phishing email","flagged":["attachment","link","greeting","sender"],"caughtCritical":3,"totalCritical":4,"falsePositives":0,"passed":false,"attempt":2}

Killchain Map

My solution
{"prompt":"Map each observed event to its kill-chain stage","mappings":{"phish":"Delivery","run":"Exploitation","creds":"Actions on Objectives","login":"Command & Control","exfil":"Actions on Objectives"},"correct":4,"total":5,"passed":true,"attempt":1}

Log Triage

My solution
{"prompt":"Flag the anomalous sign-in rows in the auth log","flaggedRows":["r3","r4","r5","r7","r8"],"caughtImpossibleTravel":true,"badCaught":5,"falsePositives":0,"passed":true,"attempt":1}

Ioc Extraction

My solution
{"prompt":"Select the real Indicators of Compromise to block","selected":["attachment","c2","attacker-ip","ru-host"],"iocsCaught":4,"benignBlocked":0,"passed":true,"attempt":1}

Containment Plan

My solution
{"prompt":"Choose and order the sound containment actions; cut access first; avoid the destructive ones.","selected":["disable-account","isolate-host","block-iocs","force-reset"],"order":["disable-account","isolate-host","block-iocs","force-reset"],"avoidedBad":["re-image","alert-all"],"soundCaught":4,"destructiveChosen":0,"accessCutFirst":true,"passed":true,"attempt":1}

Breach Notification

My solution
{"prompt":"Draft the GDPR Art. 33 72-hour breach notification to the supervisory authority.","text":"On 02:14 (incident INC-4471), Falkenstein Automotive GmbH became aware of a personal-data breach.\n And by that the company's data is being compromised. \nThe exposed data could be used for targeted phishing. The risk is moderate. \nThe breached data is being forced reset.","charCount":270,"elementsCovered":["nature","data","consequences","measures"],"passed":true,"attempt":1}

Incident Report

My solution
{"prompt":"Write the incident report (Summary / Timeline / Root cause / Impact / Recommendations)","sections":{"summary":"On the night of the INC-4471 incident, a Falkenstein user account was compromised after a phishing email and a successful sign-in from an unrecognised country was being done. The attacker was contained to one device before it spread, no data was lost.","timeline":"23:07, phishing email received. 02:00, credentials used to sign in from Rotterdam. 02:14, SIEM alert raised. 02:19, account disabled and host isolated. 02:22, blocked the attacker's IP address. 02:27, the breached credentials were forced reset. ","rootCause":"A user ran an attachment from a lookalike sender, the account had no MFA, so the stolen password alone granted access to the attacker and the there is no implementation of least privilege principle on the accounts.","impact":"One identity and the systems it could reach were exposed, personal data was in scope, putting a GDPR 72-hour clock in motion. The affected system was being put into isolation. The confidentiality, integrity and availability was badlt impacted and OEM regulations were being violated.","recommendations":"Enforce MFA on all accounts. Reduce the account privileges to least needed. Allow listed software so that unsanctioned .exe won't run simply. There should be a network segmentation so that the attacker won't get control of the whole system. And also give an updated awareness training to the employees about phishing attacks."},"charCount":1317,"sectionsAddressed":["summary","timeline","rootCause","impact","recommendations"],"passed":true,"attempt":1}

Recommendations

My solution
{"prompt":"Rate each control on impact and effort; order by priority (quick wins first)","ratings":{"mfa":{"impact":3,"effort":2},"awareness":{"impact":3,"effort":1},"least-privilege":{"impact":3,"effort":2},"endpoint":{"impact":3,"effort":3},"segmentation":{"impact":2,"effort":3}},"ranking":[{"rank":1,"control":"awareness","impact":3,"effort":1,"score":5},{"rank":2,"control":"mfa","impact":3,"effort":2,"score":4},{"rank":3,"control":"least-privilege","impact":3,"effort":2,"score":4},{"rank":4,"control":"endpoint","impact":3,"effort":3,"score":3},{"rank":5,"control":"segmentation","impact":2,"effort":3,"score":1}],"passed":true,"attempt":1}

Real Case Analysis

My solution
{"prompt":"Real case: which ONE control would have most reduced the damage, and why?","text":"The single control I'd prioritize is App control because in this case it would have been broken the chain at the root level. Without it the attacker was able to do the credential theft. With it, the ~40 TB exfiltration over four weeks would likely have been automatically blocked.","charCount":280,"controlsNamed":["application control"],"passed":true,"attempt":1}

Teach Back

My solution
{"prompt":"Teach one concept back in your own words, anchored to a real number from tonight.","text":"Lateral Movement & Escalation:- When a professional attacker infiltrate into a system or a network, they don't go directly to the target data. They start small like hacking an employee's device and then laterally move into other devices and escalate privileges in order to take a hold of the whole system or network. If you look into the breach of Continental AG which happened in 2022, the attackers didn't go all in at first. They stayed there in the system for ~4 weeks and exfiltrate ~40 TB of data by moving laterally and escalating privileges.","charCount":549}
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