This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Aishwarya Iyer
🔐 "Building the SOC of the future — with automation, AI, and real-time defense in one dashboard."
**🚀 What is CyberNexus?
CyberNexus is a full-stack AI-driven Cybersecurity Operations Center (SOC) simulation — a futuristic security dashboard that replicates how modern enterprises defend themselves from evolving threats.
Whether you're a cybersecurity analyst, developer, AI enthusiast, or simply curious about how cyber dashboards work, CyberNexus is your playground.
It combines:
🔴 Real-time threat monitoring
🤖 Machine Learning for threat detection
🔍 Digital forensics lab
🌐 Network defense toolkit
🎨 A cyberpunk-themed UI
All powered by a modern stack — React, Express, PostgreSQL, and Drizzle ORM.
🧠 Why I Built It
With AI rapidly transforming both attack and defense paradigms, I envisioned a modular, intelligent, and beautiful security center — something that’s developer-friendly, extendable, and highly visual.
Think of CyberNexus as the Jarvis of Cybersecurity Dashboards:
Functional ✅
Intelligent 🤖
Interactive ⚡
Visually captivating 💻
🔍 Key Features
🔐 Authentication System
- Secure login w/ session-based role-based access (Admin / Analyst)
- Quick-access login via credentials
- Session timeout & protection
📡 Real-Time Threat Monitoring
- Live metrics: ✅ System Health: 98.7% 🚨 Active Threats: 47 🛠️ Vulnerabilities: 12 ⚠️ Critical Alerts: 3
- Actions: Scan, Analyze, Neutralize, Patch
- Powered by WebSockets for live updates
🤖 AI-Powered Threat Intelligence
AI/ML-based predictors for:
- Phishing & malware risk scoring
- DDoS vector prediction
- Zero-day exploit confidence rating Automated countermeasures Neural network-based analysis engine
🌐 Network Security Control
- Live network topology viewer
- Metrics: 👥 Active Connections: 847 🔥 Firewall Rules: 23 🛡️ Intrusion Attempts: 12 Tools:
- Toggle firewall lockdown
- Edit firewall rules
- Run vulnerability scans
🔬 Digital Forensics Lab
- Evidence hash verification
- Timeline reconstruction
- Case management system
- One-click incident reports
🌍 Global Threat Intelligence Feed
Live feed of:
- New malware strains
- Threat geography heatmaps
- Filter & refresh stats
🔧 Advanced Security Modules
- Biometric login simulation
- Quantum encryption toggle (placeholder logic)
- Honeypot deployment
- Behavioral analysis engine
- Audit trail viewer
⚙️ Tech Stack Overview
Frontend **
React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Vite
*Backend *
Express.js, TypeScript
**Database
PostgreSQL + Drizzle ORM
Real-Time
WebSockets
State Mgmt
TanStack Query
*Auth *
Role-based sessions (Admin / Analyst)
🧬 UI & UX Highlights
💻 Cyberpunk dashboard with neon visuals
🎯 Floating Action Buttons (FABs) for critical actions
🔊 Voice command support (simulated)
🎨 Fully responsive layout
🧠 Context-aware help tooltips
📦 Local Setup in 5 Steps
1. Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/CyberNexus.git
cd CyberNexus
2. Install dependencies
npm install
3. Set up environment
Create a .env file:
DATABASE_URL=postgresql://postgres:yourpassword@localhost:5432/cybernexus
4. Push DB schema
npm run db:push
5. Run the app
npm run dev
📌 Make sure PostgreSQL and Node.js (v18+) are installed.
🌈 Screenshots
💡 Challenges & Learnings
🔄 WebSocket-powered real-time updates took some careful architecture planning, especially with state sync across roles.
🧪 The ML threat prediction module required light modeling, confidence scoring, and integration with inference UI.
🧠 Optimizing frontend visualizations without blocking UI was solved using TanStack Query and async data pipelines.
🤝 Want to Collaborate?
If you're as excited about this as I am, here are ways to contribute:
- Add new ML models for threat detection
- Build plugins for additional dashboard views
- Extend forensic tools or threat feeds
- Use CyberNexus as a base for your own SOC simulation project
📩 Email me: aishiyer2701@email.com
🔗 GitHub
👉 https://github.com/Aishwarya2701/CyberNexus
🔮 Final Thoughts: Building the Future of Cyber Defense
CyberNexus isn’t just a dashboard — it’s a vision for AI-first cybersecurity infrastructure. It’s modular, intelligent, and fully customizable — made for the modern age of cyber conflict.
Whether you're a student, open-source contributor, or part of an enterprise security team — CyberNexus is your starting point to explore the future of cyber defense innovation.
Futuristic security starts here. Let's build it together. 🔐⚡️
Futuristic security starts here. 🔐⚡️
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Aishwarya Iyer
Aishwarya Iyer | Sciencx (2025-07-09T18:33:49+00:00) 🧠⚔️ CyberNexus: A Futuristic AI-Powered Cybersecurity Operations Center — Built with React, Express & PostgreSQL. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2025/07/09/%f0%9f%a7%a0%e2%9a%94%ef%b8%8f-cybernexus-a-futuristic-ai-powered-cybersecurity-operations-center-built-with-react-express-postgresql/
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