🌐 Project Overview
During NexTech 1.0 — Odisha’s First Inter-College AI Hackathon, my team and I built Suraksha Mirage, a real-time cybersecurity honeypot dashboard.
The goal was to design an intelligent system capable of monitoring, detecting, and visualizing unauthorized access attempts in real time.
We wanted to give administrators both awareness and control — all within an intuitive, visually driven interface.
🔗 Live Project: https://suraksha-mirage.vercel.app/
🔍 What Is Suraksha Mirage?
Suraksha Mirage is a React + TypeScript-powered dashboard that monitors and analyzes suspicious login and signup attempts.
It acts as a honeypot, gathering data from fake endpoints designed to lure potential attackers — enabling threat visualization, analysis, and insights in real time.
This project reflects our mission to make cyber defence tools more accessible, transparent, and adaptive for security researchers and developers.
⚙️ Core Features
- 📊 Real-Time Threat Visualization – Displays live metrics of login/signup attempts and suspicious IPs.
- 🔐 Honeypot Simulation – Tracks unauthorized activities to help identify patterns.
- 🧠 Smart Analytics – Generates data-driven insights into attack trends.
- 👨💼 Admin Dashboard – Central control panel for monitoring and management.
- 🌍 Cloud Deployed – Hosted seamlessly on Vercel, accessible anytime.
💻 Tech Stack Used
We built Suraksha Mirage with a modern and modular tech stack focused on scalability and speed:
- Frontend: React + TypeScript
- Styling: Tailwind CSS
- Backend: Node.js / Express
- Database: MongoDB
- Deployment: Vercel
🧠 Learning Experience
Working on Suraksha Mirage was a deep dive into system architecture, threat modelling, and frontend-backend synchronization.
We learned how to manage real-time data visualization, structure secure API calls, and ensure UI consistency under dynamic updates.
Most importantly, it taught us that cybersecurity isn’t just about protection — it’s about visibility and understanding.
🚀 Challenges We Faced
- Integrating live data streams without latency.
- Designing a scalable UI for admin analytics.
- Managing data privacy and accuracy in a simulated environment.
Every challenge refined our understanding of how security systems operate at scale — and how thoughtful design can enhance reliability.
🧩 The Takeaway
Suraksha Mirage isn’t just a hackathon project — it’s a step toward creating transparent, intelligent, and adaptive defence systems.
It showed us the power of collaboration, the impact of design thinking, and how quickly ideas can evolve when curiosity meets purpose.
💬 Final Thoughts
Hackathons like NexTech 1.0 remind us that innovation doesn’t always need perfection — it needs intention.
If you’re exploring cybersecurity or system design, start small.
Simulate, visualize, and iterate.
Every experiment brings you one step closer to mastery.
✨ Thanks for reading!
I'd love to hear your thoughts or suggestions — what features would you add to make Suraksha Mirage even more powerful?
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