Self-directed project
Fundamentals of Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity · July 2026
A ProoV case study · educational project, not employment
Built an end-to-end SOC incident response analysis for a phishing-led breach: triaged the email indicators, traced the attacker through auth logs, mapped the activity to the cyber kill chain, and chose a sound containment sequence. Also drafted a GDPR Article 33 notification and translated the findings into a concise executive incident report with concrete recommendations. For the Continental case, identified application control as the highest-leverage preventive control and justified it with public-case evidence.
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 without false positives
- Caught the anomalous sign-in rows and explicitly recognized impossible travel
- Sequenced containment in a defensible order that cut access before destructive actions
- Anchored the Continental case analysis to a concrete control choice and quantified the impact
- Leakage-Free Incident Triage
- Evidence-Based Log Investigation
The work I submitted18 tasks
10 tasks · 5.4k characters · 8 written answers · 295 words
- Phishing Triage186 characters
- Killchain Map244 characters
- Log Triage175 characters
- Ioc Extraction176 characters
- Containment Plan373 characters
- Breach Notification690 characters
- Incident Report1.7k characters
- Recommendations648 characters
- Real Case Analysis609 characters
- Teach Back607 characters
- Phishing Triage8 words
- Killchain Map12 words
- Log Triage9 words
- Ioc Extraction8 words
- Containment Plan14 words
- Breach Notification76 words
- Incident Report155 words
- Recommendations13 words
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