Self-directed project
Fundamentals of Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity · September 2026
A ProoV case study · educational project, not employment
Built an end-to-end SOC incident response analysis from phishing triage through log investigation, containment, and executive reporting. The work correctly identified malicious email indicators, traced anomalous sign-ins and IoCs, sequenced containment to cut access first, and connected the real Continental case to a high-leverage control recommendation grounded in the observed attack path.
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 the phishing email’s critical red flags, including the attachment and sender issues, while avoiding false positives
- Correctly flagged the anomalous authentication activity and impossible-travel pattern in the auth logs
- Selected a containment order that cut access first and avoided destructive actions
- Made a strong, ROI-aware argument for phishing-resistant MFA as the highest-leverage control in the Continental case
- Leakage-Free Incident Triage
- Evidence-Based Log Investigation
The work I submitted18 tasks
10 tasks · 10.8k characters · 8 written answers · 395 words
- Phishing Triage191 characters
- Killchain Map244 characters
- Log Triage190 characters
- Ioc Extraction176 characters
- Containment Plan373 characters
- Breach Notification3.0k characters
- Incident Report3.1k characters
- Recommendations648 characters
- Real Case Analysis1.7k characters
- Teach Back1.1k characters
- Phishing Triage8 words
- Killchain Map12 words
- Log Triage9 words
- Ioc Extraction8 words
- Containment Plan14 words
- Breach Notification163 words
- Incident Report168 words
- Recommendations13 words
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