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Introduction

Defused provides honeypots and deception capabilities as a managed service. Instead of running your own setup, Defused supplies continuously maintained honeypots that attackers interact with. Their activity is collected, normalized, and delivered as actionable telemetry, giving you visibility into emerging threats and targeted behavior with minimal operational effort.

We offer multiple ways of consuming Defused resources - from simply tapping into live honeypot streams (Defused TF) to deploying bespoke honeypots (EX) and internal cyber deception capabilities (IB).

Decoys, honeypots, deception?​

Decoys, honeypots and deception technologies enhance a defense-in-depth strategy by actively misleading attackers and collecting intelligence on their Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs). This approach is supported by major security frameworks:

  • The U.S. NIST SP 800-53 Rev.5 includes a dedicated control for decoys (SC-26)
  • The MITRE Engage framework stresses deception for adversary engagement
  • EU's ENISA report on honeypots offers practical guidance for deploying these defensive traps.

Our services operationalize these deception principles by designing, deploying, and managing decoy infrastructure aligned with multiple framework’s honeypot guidance to strengthen your security posture with real attacker telemetry.

What can you do with Defused?​

Emerging Threat Intelligence​

  • Track emerging threat and exploit patterns on the internet
  • Analyze and collect payloads for further processing
  • Correlate/enrich existing threat intelligence with Defused honeypot-detected activity
  • Build detection queries from our payload data

Perimeter Threat Intelligence​

  • Acute detection & threat intelligence of targetted activity against your perimeter infrastructure
  • Pre-emptively block known targetted exploits against asset types you expose to the internet
  • Correlate/enrich existing threat intelligence & blocklists with our honeypot-detected activity

Internal Breach Detection (shipping soon)​

  • Build internal, post-breach threat detection for vulnerability exploits, credential abuse
  • Create new use cases and automations into existing workflows
  • Close visibility gaps for unmonited areas, such as application attack surface

Get Started​

Quickstart

Create a free Defused Starter account and explore our free capabilities on the application console.

The Defused Starter Plan grants access to select intel streams.

Use Case Guides​

We align Defused plans with the use cases described above.

  • Defused TF: for Emerging Threat Intelligence
  • Defused EX: for Perimeter Threat Intelligence
  • Defused IB: for Internal Breach Detection

Below you can view the individual use cases and guidance.