Deployment environment
Defensive lures and artifacts placed on endpoints to expose reconnaissance or misuse.
Research question
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Cross-reference
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Linked library
Proofpoint observed post-compromise activity for over a month in a Deception.Pro decoy environment; adversary behavior research, not a commercial effectiveness trial.
Pacheco and Staino present BUDA as an approach to simulating fictitious-user activity and strengthening decoy credibility, aligned with MITRE Engage.
IBM X-Force and Deception.Pro recorded two incidents in simulated organizations, observing reconnaissance, malware deployment and fake-document exfiltration.
Experimental framework generating fictitious user profiles and activity for decoy environments; the repository documents narratives, profiles and language-model integration.
Historical review of honeypots, honeytokens and moving target defense from the late 1980s through 2021.
Survey of defensive deception models and techniques in networks, hosts and cryptographic mechanisms.