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Honeypots

October 29, 2025

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Honeypots

The best defense is a good offense - Jack Depsey

Active Defense - responding to a threat by destroing or deciving the threat actors capabilities.

Active defense emeans having an engagement with the advisory .

set up bait for the attacker, put fals info and leave it un patched. lure them in.

Honeypot is a host set up to lure attackers, and learn from the attack methods.

Honeynet entire network setup to entice attacker. normally set

Allows security teams to attribute.

Identification and publicaton of an attakers method.

Fireeye. APT28 and try to attribute it to them.

APT 28 -

Annoyance stratagies. Bogus DNS Sentriese ect.

Triggring and spoofing.

hack back - uses offensive or counterattacking techniquest to degrade their capabilities.