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Prove the Block

Part of the Stopping the Spread section of Coddy's Cybersecurity journey. Lesson 16 of 20.

After containment, verify a later attempt instead of relying only on the current route. You want evidence that the protection held when the program tried again.

The practice computer is isolated. Watch the next interval:

seclab wait

You should see:

Watching the next interval.

demo-upload: practice-laptop -> parcel-cache:443 (isolated)

Read the resulting connection record:

seclab inspect connections demo-upload

Look for these lines:

demo-upload:
  Allowed: no
  Reason: isolated

The attempt was blocked by isolation. This confirms containment, but the process is still present and will need cleanup.

When several computers are involved, verify every affected route. One blocked connection does not prove that another source is contained.

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Challenge

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Ticket from Sam, IT lead

Both contained computers will retry within two intervals. Observe the retries from returns-pc and stock-relay, and verify that neither transfers new data. Keep both computers isolated, preserve their running processes for the cleanup investigation, and keep checkout working.

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