Self-directed project
Fundamentals of Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity · July 2026
A ProoV case study · educational project, not employment
Built a beginner-level incident response workflow that identified phishing as the entry point, mapped most observed events to the cyber kill chain, and selected a defensible containment sequence that disabled access before taking broader action. Also wrote a clear GDPR-style breach notification and an executive incident summary that tied the compromise to credential theft and business 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 recognized the initial access vector as phishing before reviewing logs.
- Chose a strong containment order that cut access first and avoided destructive actions.
- Included the required GDPR notification elements: nature of breach, data categories, likely consequences, and mitigation steps.
- Produced a concise incident report with summary, timeline, root cause, impact, and recommendations.
- Threat Triage from Limited Evidence
- Partial Kill-Chain Mapping
The work I submitted18 tasks
10 tasks · 4.9k characters · 8 written answers · 256 words
- Phishing Triage167 characters
- Killchain Map248 characters
- Log Triage177 characters
- Ioc Extraction161 characters
- Containment Plan373 characters
- Breach Notification521 characters
- Incident Report1.5k characters
- Recommendations648 characters
- Real Case Analysis787 characters
- Teach Back398 characters
- Phishing Triage8 words
- Killchain Map12 words
- Log Triage9 words
- Ioc Extraction8 words
- Containment Plan14 words
- Breach Notification52 words
- Incident Report140 words
- Recommendations13 words
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