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D3-DHN

Decoy Honeypot

Deceive Tactic

Deploy fake systems and services to detect, deflect, and study adversary behavior.

View on MITRE D3FEND

Implementation Guidance

  • Deploy honeypots mimicking production systems
  • Monitor all honeypot interactions
  • Isolate honeypots from production
  • Capture attacker TTPs
  • Feed intelligence into detection rules

Tools & Technologies

Thinkst CanaryT-PotCowrieOpenCanaryHoneyNet Project

ATT&CK Techniques Countered

This defensive technique helps protect against the following adversary techniques:

T1190

Exploit Public-Facing Application

Explore Purple Team Matrix for full mappings

Related Techniques in Deceive

D3-DTP

Decoy Token Deployment

D3-DF

Decoy File

D3-DNS-D

DNS Sinkhole

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