Self-directed project
Fundamentals of Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity · September 2026
A ProoV case study · educational project, not employment
Built a beginner SOC incident response workflow end to end: triaged a phishing intrusion, identified anomalous sign-ins and impossible travel in logs, selected a defensible containment sequence, and drafted a GDPR Art. 33 breach notification with the required elements. Also translated the incident into an executive-style report with timeline, root cause, impact, and 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
- Correctly flagged the phishing email’s key red flags, including sender, greeting, urgency, and attachment.
- Identified the anomalous authentication activity and explicitly caught impossible travel.
- Chose a sound containment order that cut access first and avoided destructive actions.
- Produced a concise Art. 33 notification that included the breach nature, likely consequences, and measures taken.
- Leakage-Free Incident Triage
- Log-Based Anomaly Detection
The work I submitted18 tasks
10 tasks · 4.4k characters · 8 written answers · 269 words
- Phishing Triage191 characters
- Killchain Map244 characters
- Log Triage190 characters
- Ioc Extraction176 characters
- Containment Plan373 characters
- Breach Notification692 characters
- Incident Report1.0k characters
- Recommendations648 characters
- Real Case Analysis538 characters
- Teach Back363 characters
- Phishing Triage8 words
- Killchain Map12 words
- Log Triage9 words
- Ioc Extraction8 words
- Containment Plan14 words
- Breach Notification81 words
- Incident Report124 words
- Recommendations13 words
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