Student's AI agent defended his school's network from a cyberattack after he left for college
heyneighbor · x · 2026-11-13
College student Caleb built an autonomous AI agent called "Pascal" during a summer IT/cybersecurity internship managing his school's entire network. After he left, the school was hit by a cyberattack — Pascal held the defenses and traced the attacker's origin IP.
- Reverse-engineered the cloud content filter's undocumented REST API, enforcing policy on 9,000+ sites
- Built a unified Python dashboard refreshing every 30s to track devices, suspected VPN use, and bandwidth hogs
- Ran multi-agent research to close VPN bypass routes and located a failing disk in a degraded RAID array
- Wrote incident-response playbooks for ransomware, breaches, and DoS scenarios
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