Deception Technology
What is deception technology?
The aim of deception technology is to prevent a cybercriminal that has managed to infiltrate a network from doing any significant damage. The technology works by generating traps or deception decoys that mimic legitimate technology assets throughout the infrastructure. These decoys can run in a virtual or real operating system environment and are designed to trick the cybercriminal into thinking they have discovered a way to escalate privileges and steal credentials. Once a trap is triggered, notifications are broadcast to a centralized deception server that records the affected decoy and the attack vectors that were used by the cybercriminals.
How Threat Deception Technology Works
Threat deception technology works by tricking an attacker into going after false resources within your system. It mimics the kinds of digital assets you would normally have in your infrastructure. However, these are merely traps or decoys, and when a hacker goes after them, they do not damage business-critical systems.
The aim of threat deception technology is to fool an attacker into thinking they have actually penetrated the system. For example, you can make them think they are executing a successful privilege escalation attack. As they engage in activity they think will give them the same rights as a network admin, they are really just tooling around, not getting any extra rights, and having no significant impact on your infrastructure.
Importance of Deception Technology
As attack vectors become increasingly complex, organizations need to be able to detect suspicious activity earlier in the attack chain and respond accordingly. Deception technology provides security teams with a number of tactics and resulting benefits to help:
- Decrease attacker dwell time on their network
- Expedite the average time to detect and remediate threats
- Reduce alert fatigue
- Produce metrics surrounding indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)
What Cybersecurity Attacks can be Detected by the threat Deception Technology?
- Account hijacking attacks: These involve the attacker trying to take over someone’s account using stolen credentials.
- Credential theft: This type of theft centers around an attacker gaining access to a list of credentials and then using them in a future hack.
- IoT attacks: These happen when a hacker targets Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, using what they may presume to be weaker access credentials—such as default passwords—to gain access to an organization’s network.
- Lateral movement attacks: These involve a hacker trying to move east to west, or laterally, through a network. They do this by first gaining access to one system and then trying to spread their attack to other systems the computer is connected to. In this way, they can take advantage of the interconnected assets within your organization.
- Spear phishing: This takes place when an attacker goes after a specific person or group of people in the organization to try to trick them into providing sensitive information, but with deception technology cybersecurity, you can learn how to prevent these kinds of attacks, too
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