This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge

What I Built

HoneyCloud is a scalable multi-protocol honeypot platform designed to simulate vulnerable services, capture malicious activity, and analyze attack behavior in real time.

The project started as my final year Computer Engineering project, where I wanted to explore practical cybersecurity, cloud-native architecture, and threat intelligence instead of building a generic CRUD application.

Initially, HoneyCloud was a proof-of-concept with limited functionality. It could capture basic attack events, but the architecture, analytics, real-time monitoring, and deployment pipeline were incomplete.

During this Finish-Up-A-Thon, I revived the project and transformed it into a much more production-ready platform with:

• Multi-protocol honeypots (SSH, FTP, HTTP, Telnet, SMTP, and RDP)


• FastAPI backend with SQLAlchemy 2


• Real-time attack streaming using WebSockets and SSE


• Machine learning-based threat classification using TensorFlow/Keras


• Attacker profiling and risk scoring


• Interactive analytics dashboard


• Telegram alert integration


• Dockerized deployment with Nginx reverse proxy


• Authentication, RBAC, and rate limiting


• Automated testing and reporting support

What makes this project meaningful to me is that it combines several areas I genuinely enjoy working on:

• cybersecurity


• backend engineering


• cloud infrastructure


• DevOps


• AI-assisted development

# Demo

GitHub Repository