Human Decoy Honeypots
Human Decoy Honeypots
Human Decoy Honeypots are advanced deception assets designed to attract, engage and reveal real attackers while protecting your critical infrastructure. Unlike simple automated traps, our human-centric decoys replicate realistic people, processes and assets (profiles, accounts, bait documents, support flows, even simulated employees) to expose sophisticated reconnaissance, social engineering and targeted intrusion attempts. These systems create high-fidelity engagements that only an actual human adversary would act upon — dramatically reducing false positives and surfacing the most dangerous threats early.
Human Decoy Honeypots are advanced deception assets designed to attract, engage and reveal real attackers while protecting your critical infrastructure. Unlike simple automated traps, our human-centric decoys replicate realistic people, processes and assets (profiles, accounts, bait documents, support flows, even simulated employees) to expose sophisticated reconnaissance, social engineering and targeted intrusion attempts. These systems create high-fidelity engagements that only an actual human adversary would act upon — dramatically reducing false positives and surfacing the most dangerous threats early.
Scope
Fake employee profiles and inboxes (internal & external-facing).
Honeyfiles and credential traps (documents, connection strings, fake DB credentials).
Social deception: faux contractors, vendors and support channels.
Interactive honeypots that simulate human responses (pre-scripted) to prolong engagement.
Integration with visual/OSINT sensors to monitor exposure of company assets on public media (images, labels, badges).
Wi-Fi and physical-deception (e.g., fake guest SSIDs or front-desk procedures) — when legally allowed.
Long-term campaign monitoring to track repeated attacker interest and attribution.
Methodology
Methodology
Note: while selected interactions can be automated for scale, our analysis and response capability is human-driven
BUC analysts manually triage and enrich the highest-value deception engagements.
Note: while selected interactions can be automated for scale, our analysis and response capability is human-driven
BUC analysts manually triage and enrich the highest-value deception engagements.
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Design & Threat Alignment
Design & Threat Alignment
map business processes, high-value people/assets and likely attacker motivations to design realistic decoys.
map business processes, high-value people/assets and likely attacker motivations to design realistic decoys.
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Decoy Build & Hardening
Decoy Build & Hardening
create convincing personas, honeyfiles, mailboxes, credentials and interactive touchpoints. All decoys are isolated and instrumented for traceability.
create convincing personas, honeyfiles, mailboxes, credentials and interactive touchpoints. All decoys are isolated and instrumented for traceability.
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Deploy & Integrate
Deploy & Integrate
place decoys where adversaries are likely to look: public web, internal networks, cloud storage, email flows, social platforms. Integrate with iSOC, SIEM and CTI feeds.
place decoys where adversaries are likely to look: public web, internal networks, cloud storage, email flows, social platforms. Integrate with iSOC, SIEM and CTI feeds.
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Engagement & Observation
Engagement & Observation
monitor interactions in real time; capture TTPs, data exfiltration attempts, and attacker comms. Manual analysts validate and enrich collected evidence.
monitor interactions in real time; capture TTPs, data exfiltration attempts, and attacker comms. Manual analysts validate and enrich collected evidence.
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Response & Attribution
Response & Attribution
enrich alerts with context, trigger containment when appropriate, and support attribution and legal evidence collection.
enrich alerts with context, trigger containment when appropriate, and support attribution and legal evidence collection.
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Iterate & Evolve
Iterate & Evolve
refine decoys, update playbooks, and rotate bait to adapt to attacker behavior.
refine decoys, update playbooks, and rotate bait to adapt to attacker behavior.
Who it’s for
Organizations with high-value human assets (executives, finance, HR).
Enterprises concerned about targeted phishing, supply-chain attacks or insider-threat scenarios.
SOCs and CERTs looking to add confident early-warning signals and forensic-quality evidence.
Companies required to demonstrate proactive detection and advanced monitoring for compliance.
Who it’s for
Organizations with high-value human assets (executives, finance, HR).
Enterprises concerned about targeted phishing, supply-chain attacks or insider-threat scenarios.
SOCs and CERTs looking to add confident early-warning signals and forensic-quality evidence.
Companies required to demonstrate proactive detection and advanced monitoring for compliance.
Deliverables
Deployed decoy catalog (personas, honeyfiles, endpoints) and architecture diagram.
Instrumentation & logging configuration for forensic-grade evidence.
Real-time alerting rules and SOAR playbooks (optional).
Engagement timelines with TTP mapping and MITRE ATT&CK correlation.
Actionable remediation recommendations and detection rules for SOC ingestion.
Executive summary and intelligence briefings for stakeholders.
Optional: legal preservation package (chain-of-custody ready) for use in investigations.
Deliverables
Deployed decoy catalog (personas, honeyfiles, endpoints) and architecture diagram.
Instrumentation & logging configuration for forensic-grade evidence.
Real-time alerting rules and SOAR playbooks (optional).
Engagement timelines with TTP mapping and MITRE ATT&CK correlation.
Actionable remediation recommendations and detection rules for SOC ingestion.
Executive summary and intelligence briefings for stakeholders.
Optional: legal preservation package (chain-of-custody ready) for use in investigations.
Typical outcomes & KPIs
High-fidelity detection rate (very low false-positive ratio).
Earlier detection of targeted reconnaissance and social engineering attempts (reduction in time-to-detect).
Increased SOC confidence and reduced wasted analyst time on noise.
Rich threat intelligence: new IOCs, C2 patterns, phishing kits and actor tradecraft.
Measurable improvement in phishing/credential exposure metrics after remediation.
Typical outcomes & KPIs
High-fidelity detection rate (very low false-positive ratio).
Earlier detection of targeted reconnaissance and social engineering attempts (reduction in time-to-detect).
Increased SOC confidence and reduced wasted analyst time on noise.
Rich threat intelligence: new IOCs, C2 patterns, phishing kits and actor tradecraft.
Measurable improvement in phishing/credential exposure metrics after remediation.
Integration & Add-ons
Full integration with iSOC, SIEM/XDR, Threat Intelligence platform and MediaMiner-style visual CTI (optional).
Purple Teaming: use decoy engagements as live scenarios for blue team validation and detection tuning.
Phishing & social-engineering campaigns seeded into decoys to measure real-world employee risk.
Long-term deception-as-a-service subscriptions with rotating decoys and regular intelligence reports.
Integration & Add-ons
Full integration with iSOC, SIEM/XDR, Threat Intelligence platform and MediaMiner-style visual CTI (optional).
Purple Teaming: use decoy engagements as live scenarios for blue team validation and detection tuning.
Phishing & social-engineering campaigns seeded into decoys to measure real-world employee risk.
Long-term deception-as-a-service subscriptions with rotating decoys and regular intelligence reports.
Get in Touch with Us
Get in Touch with Us
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