Self-directed project
Fundamentals of Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity · August 2026
A ProoV case study · educational project, not employment
Built a complete beginner SOC incident response workflow: triaged a phishing email, identified anomalous sign-ins and IoCs from logs, mapped the attack to the cyber kill chain, and selected a defensible containment sequence. Also drafted a GDPR Article 33-style notification and a structured incident report with timestamps, impact, root cause, and recommendations.
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
- Caught the impossible-travel sign-in and flagged all five anomalous auth rows with zero false positives.
- Mapped all five observed events to the correct cyber kill-chain stages on the first attempt.
- Chose a sound containment order that cut access first and avoided destructive actions like re-imaging.
- Wrote a concise breach notification and incident report using concrete timestamps, account details, and response actions.
- Leakage-Free Incident Triage
- Anomaly Detection from Auth Logs
The work I submitted17 tasks
9 tasks · 4.9k characters · 8 written answers · 320 words
- Phishing Triage189 characters
- Killchain Map244 characters
- Log Triage190 characters
- Ioc Extraction176 characters
- Containment Plan373 characters
- Breach Notification707 characters
- Incident Report1.4k characters
- Recommendations648 characters
- Real Case Analysis1.0k characters
- Phishing Triage8 words
- Killchain Map12 words
- Log Triage9 words
- Ioc Extraction8 words
- Containment Plan14 words
- Breach Notification84 words
- Incident Report172 words
- Recommendations13 words
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