Self-directed project
Fundamentals of Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity · September 2026
A ProoV case study · educational project, not employment
Built an end-to-end incident response workflow for a phishing-led breach: triaged the initial email, traced the attacker through auth logs and IOCs, mapped the activity to the cyber kill chain, and chose a sound containment sequence. Also produced a concise GDPR Article 33 notification and an executive incident report grounded in the incident’s actual timeline 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 caught the impossible-travel login and isolated the anomalous row without false positives
- Selected the right containment order by cutting access first and avoiding destructive actions
- Drafted a GDPR breach notice that covered nature, scope, consequences, and mitigations
- Connected the real-case recommendation to lateral movement and large-scale exfiltration
- Leakage-Free Incident Triage
- Evidence-Based Log Investigation
The work I submitted17 tasks
9 tasks · 4.3k characters · 8 written answers · 267 words
- Phishing Triage189 characters
- Killchain Map244 characters
- Log Triage170 characters
- Ioc Extraction176 characters
- Containment Plan373 characters
- Breach Notification676 characters
- Incident Report1.2k characters
- Recommendations648 characters
- Real Case Analysis642 characters
- Phishing Triage8 words
- Killchain Map12 words
- Log Triage9 words
- Ioc Extraction8 words
- Containment Plan14 words
- Breach Notification72 words
- Incident Report131 words
- Recommendations13 words
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