Honeypots & Deception Technology

Decoy systems luring attackers away from production assets while collecting threat intelligence.

Core Principles & Analysis

• Any interaction with a honeypot is inherently suspicious, yielding very low false-positive alert rates.
• Low-interaction honeypots emulate services while high-interaction ones run real operating systems.
• Honeypot networks helped researchers identify and track the Mirai IoT botnet in 2016.