Self-directed project
Fundamentals of Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity · July 2026
A ProoV case study · educational project, not employment
Built an end-to-end incident response analysis for a phishing-led intrusion: triaged the email as malicious, reconstructed the attacker path from auth logs, mapped the activity to kill-chain stages, and chose a containment sequence that cut access before remediation. Also drafted a GDPR-style breach notification and a structured executive incident report with timeline, impact, and control recommendations.
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 indicators with no false positives on the triage task and identified the email as malicious.
- Flagged the anomalous authentication rows and explicitly caught impossible travel in the log investigation.
- Selected a containment order that isolates the host before disabling the account and blocking indicators.
- Produced a structured incident report with timeline, root cause, impact, and recommendations.
- Leakage-Free Incident Triage
- Log-Based Attack Path Reconstruction
The work I submitted17 tasks
9 tasks · 4.6k characters · 8 written answers · 288 words
- Phishing Triage189 characters
- Killchain Map244 characters
- Log Triage190 characters
- Ioc Extraction176 characters
- Containment Plan373 characters
- Breach Notification599 characters
- Incident Report1.6k characters
- Recommendations648 characters
- Real Case Analysis549 characters
- Phishing Triage8 words
- Killchain Map12 words
- Log Triage9 words
- Ioc Extraction8 words
- Containment Plan14 words
- Breach Notification64 words
- Incident Report160 words
- Recommendations13 words
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