Cybersecurity

Honey traps for Cyber Hackers

An Israeli Start-up company has found a solution to assist companies facing threats of cyber attacks into their databases and using the confidential data in them – data containing information of the company itself or of its clients.

The company – Illusive Networks – has developed an algorithm that attracts hackers into a sort of honey-trap that causes them to think they are actually stealing information. As the hackers believe they actually accessing the database, trying to differentiate the bad information from the good is the point where the hackers get stuck, thus allowing the company to detect and prevent breaking in the database before any damage was caused. The false information is flooded into the system only in case of a break-in, and so it causes no disturbance to the regular function of the system.