Self-directed project
Fundamentals of Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity · August 2026
A ProoV case study · educational project, not employment
Built an end-to-end incident response analysis for a phishing-led breach: triaged the email, identified anomalous sign-ins and impossible travel in the logs, mapped the attack to kill-chain stages, and chose a containment sequence that cut access before destructive remediation. Also drafted a concise GDPR breach notification and a structured incident report with timeline, root cause, impact, 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 3 of 4 critical phishing red flags with no false positives
- Identified impossible-travel sign-in rows and traced the anomalous access pattern
- Sequenced containment to cut access first and avoided destructive actions
- Produced a timeline-based incident report with root cause, impact, and recommendations
- Leakage-Free Incident Triage
- Evidence-Based Log Investigation
The work I submitted18 tasks
10 tasks · 4.6k characters · 8 written answers · 220 words
- Phishing Triage188 characters
- Killchain Map244 characters
- Log Triage180 characters
- Ioc Extraction176 characters
- Containment Plan373 characters
- Breach Notification461 characters
- Incident Report951 characters
- Recommendations650 characters
- Real Case Analysis545 characters
- Teach Back791 characters
- Phishing Triage8 words
- Killchain Map12 words
- Log Triage9 words
- Ioc Extraction8 words
- Containment Plan14 words
- Breach Notification49 words
- Incident Report107 words
- Recommendations13 words
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