Poison Records in Acra – Database Honeypots for Intrusion Detection

2 · Cossack Labs · Aug. 16, 2018, midnight
Poison Records in Acra Intro When naming our special type of data containers created for raising an alarm within Acra-powered infrastructures, we were sure we’ve seen the term “poison records” used elsewhere in the same context. This particular technique in out of the box solution was first offered by us (if it wasn’t, let us know! We'd like to know more about their backstory :)). In a way, poison records are very much like passive honeypots, but their mechanics of work is completely different....