Self-directed project
Fundamentals of Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity · July 2026
A ProoV case study · educational project, not employment
Built a beginner SOC incident response workflow end to end: triaged a phishing email, mapped observed events to the cyber kill chain, selected real indicators of compromise, and chose a containment sequence that cut access before destructive actions. Also produced a clear incident report with timeline, root cause, impact, and practical controls such as MFA, least privilege, and segmentation.
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 all four critical phishing red flags: sender, urgency, link, and attachment.
- Mapped all five observed events to the correct kill-chain stages on the first attempt.
- Chose a containment order that cut access first and avoided destructive actions.
- Wrote a concise incident report that included a concrete timeline, root cause, impact, and recommendations.
- Leakage-Free Threat Triage
- Kill-Chain Mapping from Evidence
The work I submitted18 tasks
10 tasks · 4.6k characters · 8 written answers · 258 words
- Phishing Triage186 characters
- Killchain Map244 characters
- Log Triage177 characters
- Ioc Extraction176 characters
- Containment Plan373 characters
- Breach Notification535 characters
- Incident Report1.0k characters
- Recommendations648 characters
- Real Case Analysis623 characters
- Teach Back581 characters
- Phishing Triage8 words
- Killchain Map12 words
- Log Triage9 words
- Ioc Extraction8 words
- Containment Plan14 words
- Breach Notification64 words
- Incident Report130 words
- Recommendations13 words
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