Self-directed project
Fundamentals of Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity · August 2026
A ProoV case study · educational project, not employment
Built a beginner SOC incident analysis that triaged a phishing email, identified anomalous authentication activity, mapped the intrusion to kill-chain stages, and drafted a GDPR-style breach notification and incident report. The work shows practical security judgment, especially in spotting the phishing indicators, confirming impossible-travel sign-ins, and recommending MFA as the highest-impact control.
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 all four critical phishing red flags with zero false positives.
- Identified the impossible-travel sign-in rows and confirmed the anomaly.
- Produced a structured incident report that covered summary, timeline, root cause, impact, and recommendations.
- Prioritized MFA correctly as the highest-value control in the real-case analysis.
- Phishing IOC Triage
- Anomalous Login Detection
The work I submitted17 tasks
9 tasks · 3.6k characters · 8 written answers · 226 words
- Phishing Triage186 characters
- Killchain Map241 characters
- Log Triage175 characters
- Ioc Extraction174 characters
- Containment Plan361 characters
- Breach Notification552 characters
- Incident Report778 characters
- Recommendations648 characters
- Real Case Analysis532 characters
- Phishing Triage8 words
- Killchain Map10 words
- Log Triage9 words
- Ioc Extraction8 words
- Containment Plan14 words
- Breach Notification76 words
- Incident Report88 words
- Recommendations13 words
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