Certified
Self-directed project
Fundamentals of Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity · June 2026
84/ 100
A verified, self-directed industry project — completed and passed a real industry rubric at 84/100 on ProoV.
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 critical phishing red flags with no false positives.
- Detected impossible-travel sign-in activity and flagged the anomalous auth rows accurately.
- Chose a sound containment sequence that cut access first and avoided destructive actions.
- Selected MFA as the highest-ROI control for the real Continental case and justified it clearly.
- Threat Triage
- Log Analysis
The work I submitted10 tasks
Phishing Triage
My solution
{"prompt":"Flag the red flags in the phishing email","flagged":["urgency","link","sender","attachment"],"caughtCritical":4,"totalCritical":4,"falsePositives":0,"passed":true,"attempt":2}Killchain Map
My solution
{"prompt":"Map each observed event to its kill-chain stage","mappings":{"phish":"Delivery","run":"Exploitation","creds":"Installation","login":"Command & Control","exfil":"Actions on Objectives"},"correct":5,"total":5,"passed":true,"attempt":1}Log Triage
My solution
{"prompt":"Flag the anomalous sign-in rows in the auth log","flaggedRows":["r3","r4","r5","r7","r8"],"caughtImpossibleTravel":true,"badCaught":5,"falsePositives":0,"passed":true,"attempt":1}Ioc Extraction
My solution
{"prompt":"Select the real Indicators of Compromise to block","selected":["ru-host","c2","attachment","attacker-ip"],"iocsCaught":4,"benignBlocked":0,"passed":true,"attempt":2}Containment Plan
My solution
{"prompt":"Choose and order the sound containment actions; cut access first; avoid the destructive ones.","selected":["disable-account","isolate-host","block-iocs","force-reset"],"order":["disable-account","isolate-host","block-iocs","force-reset"],"avoidedBad":["re-image","alert-all"],"soundCaught":4,"destructiveChosen":0,"accessCutFirst":true,"passed":true,"attempt":1}Breach Notification
My solution
{"prompt":"Draft the GDPR Art. 33 72-hour breach notification to the supervisory authority.","text":"What happened: The network was infected by LockBit ransomware initiated through a malicious browser update executable, compromising internal systems.\n\nData and people affected: Employee and customer personal data (PII) residing on the compromised servers was potentially accessed and encrypted.\n\nLikely consequences: There is a high risk of data exfilteration, extortion, and tageted phishing or identify theft for the affected individuals. ","charCount":440,"elementsCovered":["nature","data","consequences","measures"],"passed":true,"attempt":1}Incident Report
My solution
{"prompt":"Write the incident report (Summary / Timeline / Root cause / Impact / Recommendations)","sections":{"summary":"On the night of the incident, a Falkenstien user account was compromised after a targeted phishing email led to a successful unauthorized sign in from an unrecognized country. The account was rapidly disabled but the exposure of the personal data triggered a mandatory GDPR regulatory response","timeline":"23:07: Phishing email recieved by the user","rootCause":"A user executed a malicious attachment from a look like center domain because the compromised account lacked multi factor authentication the student password alone granted the attacker immediate internal access","impact":"One user identity and systems it could reach were exposed directly threatening data confidentiality because personal data was in scope of the systems accessed a GDPR 72 hour reporting clock was put in motion production systems and the OEM line remained unaffected","recommendations":"Enforce MFA, Least privilege, application control network segmentation and user training"},"charCount":896,"sectionsAddressed":["summary","timeline","rootCause","impact","recommendations"],"passed":true,"attempt":1}Recommendations
My solution
{"prompt":"Rate each control on impact and effort; order by priority (quick wins first)","ratings":{"mfa":{"impact":3,"effort":1},"awareness":{"impact":3,"effort":1},"least-privilege":{"impact":2,"effort":2},"endpoint":{"impact":3,"effort":3},"segmentation":{"impact":3,"effort":3}},"ranking":[{"rank":1,"control":"mfa","impact":3,"effort":1,"score":5},{"rank":2,"control":"awareness","impact":3,"effort":1,"score":5},{"rank":3,"control":"endpoint","impact":3,"effort":3,"score":3},{"rank":4,"control":"segmentation","impact":3,"effort":3,"score":3},{"rank":5,"control":"least-privilege","impact":2,"effort":2,"score":2}],"passed":true,"attempt":2}Real Case Analysis
My solution
{"prompt":"Real case: which ONE control would have most reduced the damage, and why?","text":"The single control I would prioritize is multi-factor authentication (MFA) because in this case it would have broken the chain at the login stage following the initial credential theft without it the attacker was able to use the stolen password to freely access the network with it the 40TB expedition over four weeks would likely have been prevented entirely because the stolen password alone would not grant access.\n","charCount":417,"controlsNamed":["MFA"],"passed":true,"attempt":2}Teach Back
My solution
{"prompt":"Teach one concept back in your own words, anchored to a real number from tonight.","text":"I chose the Cyber Kill gym this is the step by step framework and anniversary must successfully navigate from initial access and privilege escalation in to their final objective in the Continental AG case the attacker managed to maintain four weeks of 12 time by mapping an attack to the kill chain defenders can find opportunities to break that chain early on if we had paused the shadow it download at step one those four weeks of silent little movement and the resulting damage would never have happened","charCount":506}