Step 8 of 8
Lure regenerated
The burned lure has been retired and replaced. Coverage fully restored. The attacker cannot distinguish a real cleanup from a fresh trap.
✓ Coverage restored
31 lures active — no gap in coverage
$ honeyd rotate --lure fake_admin@corp.local
[01] Retiring burned lure fake_admin@corp.local…
✓ Entra ID account disabled and soft-deleted
✓ Mailbox archived (evidence preserved for 90d)
✓ Incident INC-2024-0613-001 linked to retired lure
[02] Generating replacement lure identity…
✓ New name: svc-hn-audit-09@corp.contoso.com
✓ Password: 128-char random — not stored anywhere
✓ Lure seeded into Entra ID user directory
[03] Planting breadcrumbs to new lure…
✓ New credential embedded in ghost S3 bucket corp-backup-archive-hn17
✓ DNS decoy db-replica-old.corp.contoso.com updated
✓ Canary token reconfigured on new lure
[04] Verifying coverage…
✓ 31 / 31 lures active · All canary tokens responding
[DONE] Lure rotation complete in 38 seconds. Environment re-hardened.
🎉
Full cycle complete
From lure deployment to breach detection to remediation to regeneration — no deception engineer required. Attacker detected in under 8 minutes vs. the industry average of 204 days.
This incident — numbers
Dwell time detected< 8 min
Industry average204 days
False positives0
Manual SOC hours0.1 hrs (approval)
Lure rotation time38 seconds
What the attacker saw
→Found what looked like real credentials in an S3 bucket README
→Tried to authenticate with those credentials
→Immediately blocked, full path reconstructed
✗Never touched a production system
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