Cloud Active Defense is an open-source solution that integrates decoys into cloud infrastructure. It creates a dilemma for attackers: risk attacking and being detected immediately, or avoid the traps and reduce their effectiveness. Anyone, including small companies, can use it at no cost and start receiving high-signal alerts. Where honeypots are good at detecting lateral movement once the initial application has been compromised, Cloud Active Defense brings the deception directly into that initial application. “We … More →

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