Bosskey: Simulated Operations & Cybersecurity Dashboard

A clever, high-fidelity TUI (Terminal User Interface) "boss key" tool written in C# .NET 10. It simulates realistic activity across multiple cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, machine learning pipelines, and mainframe operations panels, providing an authentic-looking workload screen.

Developed using Spectre.Console for rich layout rendering, progress bars, trees, and custom text-based sparklines.

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🛠️ Features

• Eight Interactive Dashboards:
  1. NIDS (Network Intrusion Detection): Live packet capture streams, subnets under inspection, threat status levels, and live intrusion traffic sparklines.
  2. Cloud Operations Monitor: Multi-cloud node group states, region statuses, deployment orchestrator log streams, and CPU load sparklines.
  3. IAM Security Audit: Simulated scans of Active Directory Domain controllers, Organizational Units, privilege escalation paths, and policy violations.
  4. Kernel Telemetry Deep Trace: High-speed, full-screen scrolling trace of low-level driver loading, page faults, thread scheduling, and hex memory dumps.
  5. Database Sentinel: Replication lag trackers, master-replica sync offsets, slow query logging, and database transaction/IOPS sparklines.
  6. AI Model Training (NEW!): Real-time distributed pre-training status. Monitor loss/perplexity graphs, parameter models, token throughput speed, and GPU metrics (VRAM, temp, wattage) for an 8x H100 GPU cluster.
  7. Terraform Deployments (NEW!): Infrastructure-as-code run console. Highlights resource state changes (Pending -> Creating -> Complete) across target cloud instances and security groups.
  8. z/OS Mainframe Console (NEW!): Authentic retro green-on-black z/OS IBM system master console displaying active JES2 jobs, tape mounts, dataset operations, and COND codes.
• Emergency Lockdown Mode: Instantly simulate a critical network breach containment procedure, flushing memory maps, revoking credentials, and isolating subnets.
• Live Simulation Speed Controls: Dynamically speed up, slow down, or freeze the TUI display.

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⌨️ Controls & Navigation

When the application is running, use the following keys to control it:

Key	Action	Description
1 / N	NIDS Mode	Switch to Network Intrusion Detection Panel
2 / C	Cloud Mode	Switch to Cloud Container Orchestrator Panel
3 / I	IAM Audit	Switch to Identity & Access Management AD Panel
4 / K	Kernel Mode	Switch to Kernel Telemetry / Hex Dump Panel
5 / D	DB Sentinel	Switch to Database Performance Panel
6 / A	AI Training	Switch to AI/ML LLM Pre-training Panel
7 / T	Terraform Run	Switch to Infrastructure-as-Code Run Panel
8 / M	z/OS Mainframe	Switch to Retro IBM z/OS Monochrome Console Panel
E / F	RED ALERT	Toggles simulated System Failure/Breach Lockdown
Space	Pause/Resume	Freezes the simulation feeds (to "examine" data logs)
+	Speed Up	Increases tick rate (faster logs and graphics updates)
-	Slow Down	Decreases tick rate (slower updates)
Q / ESC	Exit	Restores terminal cursor and exits cleanly

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🚀 Building & Running

Requirements

• .NET 10.0 SDK

Run from Source

dotnet run --configuration Release

Build a Single-File Self-Contained Executable

To package the tool as a single, portable executable file with all dependencies embedded (no local .NET runtime required to run):

dotnet publish -c Release -r win-x64 --self-contained true -p:PublishSingleFile=true -p:PublishTrimmed=false

The resulting executable will be located at: bin\Release\net10.0\win-x64\publish\Bosskey.exe