Using Cyber Decoys to Strengthen Detection and Response
CISA released guidance on cyber decoys—tripwires, breadcrumbs, honeytokens—to help defenders detect adversaries using valid credentials and living-off-the-land techniques.
CISA published guidance to help defensive teams of varying maturity plan and implement cyber decoys—assets that mimic legitimate systems, accounts, or data, such as tripwires, breadcrumbs, and honeytokens—to detect adversaries using legitimate credentials and living-off-the-land techniques. The guidance frames decoys as complementing Zero Trust by producing high-fidelity alerts, reducing alert fatigue, and exposing post-compromise activity like discovery, lateral movement, and data access. It maps decoy operations to the MITRE Engage and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks with low-complexity implementation steps.
- Guidance covers decoy concepts: tripwires, breadcrumbs, and honeytokens
- Decoys complement Zero Trust with high-fidelity alerts and reduced alert fatigue
- Uses MITRE Engage and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks for low-complexity decoy planning
- Targets defenders facing adversaries using valid credentials and LOTL techniques
- Vendors
- MITRE
- Products
- MITRE EngageMITRE ATT&CK
- Countries
- United States
From the original article
1 min read at cisa.govCISA developed this guidance to help defensive teams at varying levels of cybersecurity maturity plan and implement cyber decoy strategies that strengthen their detection and response capabilities. Many organizations struggle to detect adversaries who use legitimate credentials, native tools, and living off the land (LOTL) techniques to conduct discovery, move laterally, and access data.
By CISA · cisa.gov
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