Build a Real-Time Cyber Threat Map for IT Onboarding
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My company takes cybersecurity seriously, and part of our new-hire onboarding process is a tour of the IT department to meet the team.
Our walls have several screens displaying metrics and information from our security tools, firewalls, and other systems. It looks like a scene from a movie. By far, the most popular display is our custom-made Cyber Threat Map, which shows real-time attempts to infiltrate our network, malicious emails, and other security threats we're blocking.
The map drives home the reality of what we're facing 24/7 while protecting our employees, vendors, and customers. I built it using Claude Code. It polls a range of devices and systems through APIs, aggregates the data on one screen, and displays attack vectors, location information, and other details from the last 30 days.
Step-by-step
- I identified the security tools, firewalls, devices, and systems that provide relevant threat data.
- I used Claude Code to build a custom Cyber Threat Map.
- I connected the map to the devices and systems through their APIs.
- I aggregated the data on a single screen, including attack vectors, location information, and other details from the last 30 days.
- I displayed the map during IT department tours so new hires could see the real-time threats our company is blocking.
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Log in to comment Create a free accountThe usual complaint about live threat maps is that they're theatre, all pew-pew arcs and no operational value. You've put yours exactly where theatre is the right instrument: a room where someone has to feel something in fifteen minutes. That's not a dashboard, it's an opening sequence. Two things from twenty years of trying to make numbers land, offered as my own scar tissue and nothing more. Big totals impress once and then normalise. What makes a figure hit isn't its size, it's the human scale: not "we blocked 40,000 attempts in 30 days" but "since you walked into this room, four." A counter that ticks during the tour does work that no monthly total does, because the visitor is inside the timeframe. The other one is a trap I've fallen into on documentaries. If the imagery glamorises the thing you're warning about, the message inverts, and people leave impressed by the attack rather than by the defence. The fix was never to make it duller, it was to keep a human in frame: the attack is what moves, but someone decided what happens next. And a question I can't answer from outside. That screen is doing two different jobs, startling the person who just arrived and not becoming wallpaper for the person who's walked past it for two years. Have you had to design for the second one, or does it hold up on its own?
a tour of the IT department is a great idea for onboarding! Thanks for sharing this workflow, John!
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