The Evolution Of Cyber Deception: Does It Deserve A Place In Your Security Strategy?
techradar.pro, Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
Understanding the value of cyber deception
A tried-and-tested defensive security strategy, cyber deception deliberately plants decoys within an IT environment to detect and analyze malicious activity. These may include fake servers or domain controllers, decoy databases with fabricated records, planted credentials, or even bogus file shares containing dummy data.
They are designed to appear completely legitimate, but as they serve no business function any interaction with them is, by definition, suspicious.