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 authentication activity, mapped the attack to the cyber kill chain, and selected containment actions that cut access before destructive steps. Also drafted a GDPR Article 33 notification and produced a concise executive incident report grounded in the incident’s actual timestamps, indicators, and impact.
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 the phishing intrusion before reading logs and later caught the anomalous sign-in rows with zero false positives.
- Mapped all five observed events to the correct cyber kill-chain stages and chose a sound containment order that cut access first.
- Drafted a GDPR Article 33 notification that covered the nature of the breach, affected data, consequences, and mitigations.
- Transferred the lesson to the Continental case with a concrete control recommendation tied to the 4-week dwell time and ~40TB exfiltration.
- Leakage-Free Incident Investigation
- Evidence-Based Triage and Containment
The work I submitted18 tasks
10 tasks · 5.7k characters · 8 written answers · 344 words
- Phishing Triage187 characters
- Killchain Map244 characters
- Log Triage185 characters
- Ioc Extraction176 characters
- Containment Plan373 characters
- Breach Notification971 characters
- Incident Report1.6k characters
- Recommendations648 characters
- Real Case Analysis708 characters
- Teach Back635 characters
- Phishing Triage8 words
- Killchain Map12 words
- Log Triage9 words
- Ioc Extraction8 words
- Containment Plan14 words
- Breach Notification120 words
- Incident Report160 words
- Recommendations13 words
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