Self-directed project
Fundamentals of Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity · August 2026
A ProoV case study · educational project, not employment
Built a credible beginner SOC incident response package end to end: triaged a phishing email, identified anomalous authentication activity including impossible travel, selected a defensible containment sequence, and drafted both an Article 33 breach notification and an executive incident report. Also applied the lessons to the Continental LockBit case by arguing for application control as the highest-leverage control, with a clear rationale tied to execution blocking and reduced dwell time.
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
- Flagged the anomalous auth rows and explicitly identified impossible travel
- Chose a containment order that cut access first and avoided destructive actions
- Wrote a structured incident report and Article 33 notification covering nature, data, consequences, and mitigations
- Phishing Triage and IOC Recognition
- Anomalous Authentication Investigation
The work I submitted18 tasks
10 tasks · 5.9k characters · 8 written answers · 242 words
- Phishing Triage186 characters
- Killchain Map241 characters
- Log Triage190 characters
- Ioc Extraction174 characters
- Containment Plan373 characters
- Breach Notification498 characters
- Incident Report1.8k characters
- Recommendations648 characters
- Real Case Analysis1.1k characters
- Teach Back689 characters
- Phishing Triage8 words
- Killchain Map10 words
- Log Triage9 words
- Ioc Extraction8 words
- Containment Plan14 words
- Breach Notification44 words
- Incident Report136 words
- Recommendations13 words
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