Deception tools have come a long way in a few years and can now more closely emulate real network activity and help security teams identify and stop attacks.
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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.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ CounterCraft, the global leader in deception-powered threat intelligence and active defense technology, has been awarded an
Other Transaction (OT) agreement by the
Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to dramatically enhance cyber threat detection and intelligence-gathering capabilities. DIU prototyped CounterCraft s capabilities in the use of deception technology to prevent cyber attacks targeting the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).
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CounterCraft s award-winning and innovative Cyber Deception Platform uses sophisticated deception environments to detect and alert unauthorized adversarial activity. This month, CounterCraft officially launched a U.S. branch of the business under the leadership of a new