Cyber Monitor

A lightweight cybersecurity desktop monitoring tool.

🚀 Key Features

• 🔍 Real-Time System Monitoring
  View live system logs, events, and activities in one dashboard.

• 🔐 Login & Security Event Tracking
  Detect failed logins, authentication attempts, and system access behavior.

• ⚙️ Process & Resource Analysis
  Identify high CPU and memory usage processes with severity classification.

• 💾 Storage Hotspot Detection
  Discover folders consuming excessive disk space.

• 🌐 Network Traffic Monitoring
  Track active connections, protocols, and remote endpoints.

• 📍 Geo/IP Intelligence
  Enrich remote IPs with location and ISP information.

• 🚨 Severity-Based Alerting
  Classify events as LOW / MEDIUM / HIGH based on thresholds.

• 📧 Automated Email Alerts
  Notify administrators when suspicious activity is detected.

• 📊 Data Export & Reporting
  Export system data into CSV format for analysis and documentation.

• 🖥️ SOC-Inspired Dashboard UI
  Designed to simulate a lightweight Security Operations Center interface.

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Features

• Real-time system log monitoring
• Login and shutdown event tracking
• CPU and memory process monitoring
• Storage hotspot detection
• Network traffic analysis with Geo/IP lookup
• Severity-based alert classification
• Email alerting system
• CSV report export

Notes

• Requires Python 3.10+
• Internet required for Geo/IP enrichment
• Administrator privileges may be needed for full system visibility
• Windows Defender may show warnings for unsigned .exe

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📥 Download

Download the latest version from the Releases

Screenshot of dashboard

Screenshot of network traffic

Screenshot of logs events

Screenshot of alert settings

Demo & Tutorial

See DEMO_TUTORIAL.md for a full walkthrough, demo flow, and presentation guide.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This software is developed for educational and demonstration purposes only.
It is not intended for production or enterprise-level security use.

The application provides system monitoring features such as logs, process activity, and network connections for learning and analysis purposes only.

Users are responsible for how they use this software. The author is not liable for any misuse or damage caused.

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🔐 Security & Privacy Notice

• This application does not collect or transmit personal data without user configuration.
• Email alerts require manual SMTP setup by the user.
• No credentials are stored externally.
• Geo/IP lookup uses a public API and only queries external IP addresses.

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📜 License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL-3.0).

You are free to:

• Use
• Modify
• Distribute

Under the condition that:

• Modified versions must also be open-source under the same license

See the LICENSE file for full details.

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👤 Author

Apel Mahmud
Cybersecurity Student Project

🔗 Repository: https://github.com/cseapel/cybermonitor

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