Countercraft, dirigida por un exjefe de ciberseguridad de Telefónica, pone a EEUU como clave después de culminar años de una cierta ‘travesía en el desierto’ co
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Kelsey Atherton on January 28, 2021 at 3:34 PM
Honeypot techniques are used to lure cyber attackers into spaces where they can be tracked without doing harm. (Credit: Theresa Thompson (CC BY 2.0)
ALBUQUERQUE: A new investment by the Pentagon’s Silicon Valley outpost gives the military new tech to catch and stop insider threats on compromised networks. Announced January 25, the Defense Innovation Unit awarded an Other Transaction agreement to CounterCraft to detect and provide intelligence on cyber threats. DIU has already prototyped CounterCraft’s platform.
In 2016, NATO set out to incorporate honeypots into its defensive posture. In November 2020, NATO experimented with CounterCraft’s platform as a way to lure and red team identify hackers, and found the platform successful.