🛡️ ShieldX — A Vietnamese Student’s Fight to Make Cybersecurity Free for Everyone
Three months ago, I read about a small startup in Vietnam that was hacked.
They didn’t lose because they were foolish.
They lost because real security costs more than their entire company.

That night, I couldn’t sleep.
I kept thinking — why should safety on the Internet belong only to the rich?

So I decided to build ShieldX — an open-source shield for everyone who can’t afford one.

💥 The Harsh Truth

99% of startups can’t afford enterprise security tools.

Developers juggle 10+ tools and still sleep with fear.

Students like me only study security from textbooks, not real systems.

Open-source tools exist — but they’re scattered, outdated, and lonely.

⚙️ What I’m Building

ShieldX is my attempt to unite modern defense ideas into one open platform:

🧠 AI/ML Behavioral Threat Detection — so machines learn to defend themselves

🕵️ Dynamic Honeypots — to turn attackers into test subjects

🔒 MicroVM Sandboxes — isolate danger before it spreads

🧩 eBPF-based Monitoring — for deep visibility, without pain

🚪 Zero-Trust Authentication — because trust must be earned continuously

Tech Stack: Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, QUIC, OPA, eBPF
License: Apache 2.0 — because freedom matters.

💬 My Truth

I’m not a cybersecurity veteran.
I’m not a senior developer.

I’m just a 21-year-old student from Thanh Hóa, Vietnam, still learning every single day —
building this with hope .

What keeps me going isn’t skill.
It’s that tiny, irrational belief that I can change something —
and that maybe, someone out there will join me.

🧱 Where We Stand

✅ Alpha release done — deployable with Docker Compose
✅ Core services live (Orchestrator, Guardian, Ingress)
✅ AI anomaly detection works
⚠️ Optimization needed (~100 RPS for now)
⚙️ Helm charts in progress

🚀 Why I’m Writing This

This isn’t a launch.
This is a cry for collaboration.

If you’re a senior engineer, remember what it felt like when you were new — when you had more dreams than experience.
If you’re a security expert, you already know the pain of complexity and cost.
If you’re a student, like me — let’s learn together, break things, fix them, and grow.

🌍 My Dream

I imagine a world where:

A startup in Kenya launches enterprise security with one command.

A student in Brazil learns real security by reading our code.

A sysadmin in India finally sleeps peacefully at night.

A global community fights cyber threats together — in real time.

That’s the world I’m fighting for.

🫶 How You Can Help

You don’t need to be a pro.
You just need to care.

✨ Star the repo — it tells me someone out there believes.
💬 Leave a comment — even one idea can save a week of work.
👀 Reviecw the code — show me how to do it better.
🤝 Or simply write: "Keep going."

That one sentence is often enough to get me through another long night of debugging.

💌 Let’s Connect

🔗 Repo: github.com/shieldx-bot/shieldx

📖 discord : Join the community
📧 Contact: info@shieldx.dev

"They say it’s naive to think one student can change cybersecurity.
But all revolutions start naive — until they work."

— Nguyen Van Anh 🇻🇳
Founder of ShieldX