// APPROACH
Learn by building.
I enjoy moving between offensive-security concepts and software development—studying how applications behave, then applying that understanding to better code and better systems.
Portfolio // 2026
CYBERSECURITY / PYTHON DEVELOPMENT
Harley Hardin.
I build practical software, explore how systems fail, and turn technical problems into clean, useful solutions.
01 // ABOUT
Security mindset.
Builder mentality.
I’m an aspiring cybersecurity specialist and Python developer focused on understanding systems deeply, finding better ways to solve problems, and building tools that are useful in the real world.
// CURRENT FOCUS
Web security + Python.
My current work centers on Python applications, APIs, Linux, web application security, authentication, access control, and practical security research.
// PRINCIPLE
Make it useful.
I care about projects that do something meaningful: automate a workflow, reveal useful information, improve security, or make a complicated process easier to understand.
02 // SELECTED WORK
Projects built to
solve real problems.
FEATURED // DAY 010
PASSWORD SECURITY
PYTHON / BCRYPT / SQLITE / AUTHENTICATION
Secure Password Storage
A menu-driven registration and login system that revisits Day 8 with proper password handling: passwords must meet strength rules, are salted and hashed with bcrypt before SQLite storage, and are verified with bcrypt during login. The project also validates names, prevents duplicate accounts, uses parameterized SQL, and writes login outcomes to a local audit log.
def encryptpw(password):
salt = bcrypt.gensalt()
hashed = bcrypt.hashpw(
password.encode('utf-8'), salt
)
return hashed
def verifypw(password, hashed):
return bcrypt.checkpw(
password.encode('utf-8'), hashed
)DAY 009 // PROJECTACCESS CONTROL
PYTHON / SQLITE / AUTHORIZATION
Access Control Gateway
A terminal-based access-control exercise that maps rooms to permitted access levels, looks up an employee's access level from SQLite with a parameterized query, makes grant/deny decisions, and records each decision in an audit log.
BONUS // DAY 008GAME LOGIC
PYTHON / HIGHER-LOWER CASINO
Casino Higher / Lower
A small bonus game that starts the player with $100, rolls random values, validates bets against the available balance, resolves higher/lower guesses, updates winnings or losses, and ends when the bankroll reaches zero.
BONUS // DAY 004SECURITY API TOOL
PYTHON / URL THREAT INTELLIGENCE
VirusTotal URL Analyzer
A command-line URL analysis tool that encodes URLs for the VirusTotal API, retrieves analysis statistics, classifies low/medium/high risk, and calculates a numerical score from the returned detection counts.
DAY 008 // PROJECTAUTH LEARNING
PYTHON / ACCOUNT REGISTRATION
Account Registration Sample
A command-line registration exercise that builds on the username-auditing idea: it rejects short, blocked, or already-taken usernames, checks passwords for uppercase, lowercase, numeric, special-character, and minimum-length requirements, then appends accepted accounts to a local user database.
Learning note: this version stores passwords in plaintext, which the source explicitly flags as a bug. It is a practice project for validation and registration flow—not a secure authentication system.
DAY 007 // PROJECTPOLICY CHECK
PYTHON / USERNAME AUDITING
Username Auditor
A compact command-line username checker that loads profanity and impersonation terms from local wordlists, normalizes input for case-insensitive matching, and rejects usernames containing blocked terms until the user exits.
DAY 006 // PROJECTGUI PRACTICE
PYTHON / TKINTER / PROCESS CHECKING
Suspicious Process Checker
A deliberately scoped one-hour Tkinter project with my gloriously rough first-pass GUI. It checks a typed process name against a local suspicious-process list, ignores capitalization, handles blank input, tracks how many checks were run, keeps an investigation history, and lets the user add new process names during the session.
DAY 005 // LEARNING LOGSCOPE LESSON
PYTHON / STATIC FILE ANALYSIS EXPLORATION
Static File Analyzer
I set out to build a simple file scanner and GUI, then let the scope expand into hashes, PE structure, entropy, certificate metadata, macros, metadata inspection, and entry-point disassembly.
I had to research heavily and do not consider every part of this program something I could independently recreate yet. I’m keeping it in the challenge because the point is to document the learning process—the biggest lesson was to keep future projects small enough that I can actually solve the problems myself.
DAY 004 // PROJECTSEC
PYTHON / PASSWORD SECURITY
Password Audit Tool
A terminal-based password auditing tool that scores passwords against uppercase, lowercase, digit, special-character, repeated-character, minimum-length, and common-password checks, then summarizes strength across the audit session.
BONUS // DAY 004SEC
PYTHON / LOG ANALYSIS
Security Log Analyzer
Reads a login-attempt log, counts successful and failed events, groups failures by IP and username, flags IPs with three or more failed attempts, and reports the username with the most failures.
BONUS // DAY 004WIP
PYTHON / FILE INTEGRITY
File Integrity Checker
An experimental security lab that creates SHA-256 file baselines, rescans a selected directory, and compares current hashes to identify unchanged, modified, new, and deleted files. Core functionality is in place; cleanup is planned after the challenge.
DAY 003 // PROJECTPY
PYTHON / GAME LOGIC
Rock, Paper, Scissors
A replayable terminal game with randomized computer choices, validated input, complete win/tie/loss logic, and persistent score tracking across rounds.
DAY 002 // PROJECTPY
PYTHON / DATETIME
Simple Quiz Game
A five-question terminal quiz that uses the current date and calendar to generate answers, accepts case-insensitive input, tracks correct responses, and calculates a final percentage score.
DAY 001 // PROJECTPY
PYTHON / CLI
Number Guessing Game
A terminal guessing game that generates a random number from 1–100, validates user input and range, tracks attempts, and gives color-coded higher/lower feedback until the correct answer is found.
03 // CAPABILITIES
Tools I use.
Skills I’m sharpening.
DEVELOPMENT
Build
PythonSQLitebcryptREST APIsAPI IntegrationGit / GitHub
CYBERSECURITY
Break / Defend
Web SecurityAccess ControlPassword HashingPassword AuditingThreat IntelligenceAudit Logging
ENVIRONMENT
Operate
Kali LinuxCLIDocker ComposeVS CodeNetworkingTechnical Writing
04 // CONTACT
Have something interesting
to build or secure?
I’m always interested in connecting with people working on cybersecurity, Python, software, and challenging technical problems.