Self-directed project
Fundamentals of Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity · July 2026
A ProoV case study · educational project, not employment
Built an end-to-end incident response analysis for a phishing-to-ransomware breach: triaged the email indicators, traced the attacker through auth-log anomalies, mapped the activity to cyber kill chain stages, and chose a sound containment sequence. Also drafted a GDPR Article 33 notification and an executive incident report grounded in the incident’s actual timestamps, indicators, and exfiltration impact.
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 all four phishing red flags and reached the malicious verdict without false positives.
- Caught the impossible-travel authentication anomaly and selected the right anomalous auth rows.
- Sequenced containment in a defensible order by cutting access first and avoiding destructive actions.
- Used concrete breach facts in the GDPR notice and incident report, including the 40 TB exfiltration and 72-hour notification context.
- Leakage-Free Incident Triage
- Evidence-Based Log Analysis
The work I submitted18 tasks
10 tasks · 6.5k characters · 8 written answers · 365 words
- Phishing Triage186 characters
- Killchain Map244 characters
- Log Triage175 characters
- Ioc Extraction176 characters
- Containment Plan373 characters
- Breach Notification1.3k characters
- Incident Report2.1k characters
- Recommendations648 characters
- Real Case Analysis533 characters
- Teach Back772 characters
- Phishing Triage8 words
- Killchain Map12 words
- Log Triage9 words
- Ioc Extraction8 words
- Containment Plan14 words
- Breach Notification153 words
- Incident Report148 words
- Recommendations13 words
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