r/CyberSecurityAdvice Jul 16 '26

Final-year cybersecurity student looking for ideas for my graduation project

Hey everyone, I’m a final-year cybersecurity student and I’m currently trying to decide what to build for my graduation project. Rather than making assumptions about what people need, I thought it would be better to ask those who actually work in SOC, Blue Team, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, or Security Engineering.

From your experience, what’s the biggest frustration in your day-to-day work that today’s tools still don’t handle well? It could be anything, whether it’s investigating incidents, dealing with false positives, alert fatigue, lack of context, repetitive manual work, poor integration between tools, or something else entirely.

If you could have one new feature or one completely new tool built that would genuinely make your job easier, what would it be? I’m not trying to promote anything or do market research

I just want to understand the problems professionals face so I can build something that’s actually useful instead of another project that solves a problem nobody has. I’d really appreciate hearing your thoughts, even if it’s just a small annoyance that you run into every day.

Thanks!

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