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Ben Mickens

BEN
MICKENS

Cybersecurity Educator | Human Risk Strategist

Most security failures start with people, not code. I build the training, labs, and tools that make the human layer defensible.

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Password Validator
DONE[01]
Weak passwords fail quietly until a breach makes them loud. This tool scores any password against breach databases, crack-time estimates, and security policy rules, in a CLI or a Streamlit web UI. Users see exactly why a password fails and what fixing it buys them.
Human Risk & Awareness
LIVE DEMO →
RootVox
DONE[02]
Cloud dictation ships your voice to someone else's servers. RootVox is push-to-talk AI dictation for macOS built on whisper.cpp and Ollama: hold a key, speak, and cleaned-up text lands at your cursor. Fully local, zero cloud, zero telemetry.
Foundations
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CertRx
IN PROGRESS[03]
Cert practice apps grade you and move on; the miss is the moment worth teaching, and it gets skipped. CertRx captures your reasoning and uses AI to diagnose the specific misconception before revealing the answer. 11 live cert banks, 2,550 original questions, free with no account and no tracking.
Learning Design
CASE STUDY →LIVE DEMO →
CloudMind Sentinel
IN PROGRESS[04]
AI workloads on AWS ship faster than the detections that watch them. CloudMind Sentinel attacks an Amazon Bedrock inference pipeline, then engineers real-time detection with CloudWatch, Lambda, and MITRE ATLAS. Attack and defense documented as one build.
Cloud & AI Security
RHEL Hardening
IN PROGRESS[05]
A default Linux install is not a compliant one. This project hardens RHEL against DISA STIGs with HIPAA safeguards mapped in, documented so the process is repeatable. Each control is verified, not just applied.
Foundations
Vulnerable Chat Bot
IN PROGRESS[06]
You cannot defend LLM apps you have never broken. This intentionally vulnerable chat application gives trainees a safe target for prompt injection and exploitation practice. Built to teach attacks so teams can recognize them in production.
Cloud & AI SecurityHuman Risk & Awareness
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