The NCSC touts honeypots and ‘cyber deception’ tactics as the key to combating hackers

Honeypots and cyber detection tools can be highly effective at disrupting cyber attacks, according to the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), but enterprises should prepare for serious risks.

Over the last year, the NCSC has run a series of cyber deception trials, speaking to users, and analyzing the results to try and work out whether such tactics can increase observability, improve threat hunting, and even influence how attackers behave.

The trials involved 121 organizations from across the UK, 14 commercial providers of cyber deception solutions, and 10 product trials across different environments, from cloud deployments to operational technology.

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