Cybersecurity definition
What is Honeypot?
By Cyber Tool Stack Editorial TeamUpdated
Definition
A decoy system, account, or file deliberately left exposed to attract attackers, giving defenders early warning of an intrusion and insight into attacker behavior without risking real assets.
Related cybersecurity terms
Threat HuntingThe practice of proactively searching historical activity data for signs of a compromise that never triggered an automatic alert.IOCIndicator of CompromiseForensic evidence that a system has already been breached — a malicious file hash, a known-bad IP address, a suspicious registry key — used to detect or confirm past or ongoing compromise.