Deception & Decoys
Turn an intruder's curiosity into the alarm.
Place convincing decoys inside the network — hosts, databases, credentials. Real users have no reason to interact with them, so interaction becomes a high-confidence signal instead of one more thing to triage.
What it covers
- Decoys that rotate patterns to resist fingerprinting
- Lateral-movement traps using fake shares and devices
- Session isolation on first interaction
- Highest-priority alerting that names the source device
- Profiling so decoys resemble the real environment around them
What you get
Deception inverts the usual detection economics. Rather than processing millions of events hoping one stands out, you deliberately create a small number of events that are almost certainly meaningful.
A decoy administrative portal received a weak-credential login followed by reconnaissance commands from an unrecognized host.
Where this approach is strongest
Deception is most useful against activity that behaves normally enough to evade signature matching but still has to search for something valuable — stealthy tooling and insider credential misuse both fall into that category.
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