Self-directed project
Fundamentals of Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity · August 2026
A ProoV case study · educational project, not employment
Built a coherent incident-response analysis for the Falkenstein breach: mapped the observed events to the cyber kill chain, chose a containment sequence that disabled access before destructive steps, and drafted a GDPR Article 33 notification covering the breach nature, affected data, consequences, and mitigations. Also translated the incident into a clear executive report and justified segmentation as the most impactful control in the Continental case.
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 mapped all five observed events to the appropriate kill-chain stages on the first attempt
- Selected a containment order that cut access first and avoided destructive actions
- Wrote a concise GDPR breach notification that covered nature, data, consequences, and mitigations
- Produced a timeline-based incident report that anchored the compromise to the phishing email and suspicious Rotterdam login
- Leakage-Free Incident Reasoning
- Cyber Kill Chain Mapping
The work I submitted18 tasks
10 tasks · 5.9k characters · 8 written answers · 282 words
- Phishing Triage157 characters
- Killchain Map244 characters
- Log Triage181 characters
- Ioc Extraction174 characters
- Containment Plan373 characters
- Breach Notification524 characters
- Incident Report2.0k characters
- Recommendations648 characters
- Real Case Analysis813 characters
- Teach Back719 characters
- Phishing Triage8 words
- Killchain Map12 words
- Log Triage9 words
- Ioc Extraction8 words
- Containment Plan14 words
- Breach Notification52 words
- Incident Report166 words
- Recommendations13 words
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