Honeypot-Based Threat Detection Is Gaining Ground in India's Cybersecurity Market
What Is Changing Honeypot technology, which creates decoy systems designed to attract and detect attackers, has historically been considered an advanced security capability limited to large enterprises and government agencies with dedicated security research teams. That positioning is changing. According to DSCI India Cybersecurity Landscape Report 2023, deployment of deception technologies including honeypots in India's private sector grew by over 60 percent between 2021 and 2023, driven by the increasing availability of managed honeypot services that remove the operational overhead historically associated with honeypot deployment and management. What Is Driving the Change Traditional threat detection approaches based on signature matching and anomaly detection generate high volumes of alerts, many of which are false positives that overwhelm security operations teams. Honeypots generate very different signal quality: any interaction with a honeypot system is by definition an...