Tag: deception
This year at RSA, I saw many vendors offering “deceptive defense” solutions. Whether folks were buying them is another matter. The concept of using deception in warfare goes back to the dawn of time. Thousands of years ago, Sun Tzu wrote that “all warfare is based on deception.”1 IT deception as a hacking defense has…
Read MoreBetteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that explains that “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”1 Back in March 2017, I asked “Will Deception as a Defense Become Mainstream?” No, deception hasn’t become mainstream yet. But, here and there, deception does poke its fingers into the…
Read MoreIn part 1 of this blog series, we explored how to use delayed response and diversion as hack back tactics against attackers. Here, we up the game and explore some additional creative deception techniques. Potemkin Apps Back in 1787, the Empress Catherine II of Russia was touring the newly acquired Crimea via a barge trip…
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