Honeypot & Deception Tools

About Honeypot & Deception Tools

Honeypots and deception tools place fake assets where only an attacker should find them. The category includes service honeypots that imitate SSH servers, databases, web applications, or industrial controllers and log every interaction, canary tokens that are files, URLs, or credentials which alert when used, and deception platforms that coordinate many decoys across a network. Alerts from deception assets are high fidelity, so defenders use them to detect intrusions that signature and anomaly systems miss, to learn attacker tradecraft, and to slow intruders down while response starts. Interactivity is the main design axis: low-interaction honeypots emulate a protocol enough to capture scans and automated malware, while high-interaction honeypots run real services in a controlled cage and capture more behavior at higher risk. The category overlaps with detection engineering, since honeypot alerts usually route into the same pipelines as other detections, and with threat intelligence, since captured payloads and attacker sources feed IOC collection.