Rapid7, Inc.
Ratio-based management of honeypot fleets

Abstract:

Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and processes for dynamically deploying deception computing systems based on network environment lifecycle. Based on available lifecycle metadata associated with honeypots, a determination is made as to whether honeypot deployment criteria require maintaining a likelihood that a malicious attacker will target a given honeypot and/or preventing the malicious attacker from determining if a target is a protected host or the given honeypot. If a honeypot deployment criteria requires maintaining a likelihood that the malicious attacker will target the given honeypot, a ratio management operation is performed. In addition, if another honeypot deployment criteria requires preventing the malicious attacker from determining if the target is the protected host or the given honeypot, a host replacement operation is performed.