Real users never touch a honeypot. So any activity you see is suspicious by design - perfect for early warning, threat research, and tuning defenses.
Decoy assets imitate apps, files, credentials, or services.
Lures and emulation make it feel authentic to scanners and bots.
Telemetry captures IPs, tools, commands, and payloads.
Alerts and blocks feed your SIEM, EDR, and firewall rules.
Early detection: catch brute force, web exploit attempts, and lateral movement.
Intel gathering: collect indicators to improve blocklists and playbooks.
Blue-team training: safe space to practice response on real attacker traffic.
Needs care so it cannot be pivoted into your real network.
Skilled attackers may probe and spot simple decoys - realism matters.
Signal volume can rise fast - plan storage and alerting.
Place honeypots in separate VLANs with strict egress rules.
Seed with believable but fake credentials and data.
Forward logs to your SIEM and automate IP/domain blocking.
Review hits weekly and refresh the decoy so it stays convincing.