Anti-spam filtering and firewalls provide a strong level of protection against malware entering your network. But having the ability to identify suspicious behaviour from an attacker who has managed to bypass these controls is extremely valuable.
Known as Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), the more capable attackers typically avoid causing disruption to your network. Instead, they slowly attempt to access systems and extract valuable data, including business information, personal data, and credentials. APTs can remain undetected for years, slowly leaking data and using your network as a base for other attacks.
Intrusion Detection
Monitors network activity and builds a model of normal patterns, learning your network’s typical traffic and alerting whenever it detects anything unusual, such as network scanning, high traffic volumes, or brute force attempts.
Honeypots
Fake systems placed strategically on your network that appear to be real servers, desktops, or appliances. Any interaction with them is immediately suspicious, providing early warning and intelligence on attacker methods.
Active Alerting
The system generates alerts whenever it detects unusual activity, providing details of the associated systems, source, and methodology, giving you the information needed to respond quickly.
Monitored & Supported
All solutions come with our active monitoring support. We help interpret any warnings and ensure you can respond effectively to any threat, so you are never left to analyse alerts alone.
Intrusion Detection Systems
An intrusion detection system works by monitoring network activity and building a model of normal patterns. The system learns how your network operates and what typical traffic should look like, allowing it to identify any unusual activity such as:
- Network scanning
- Unusually high levels of traffic
- Brute force login attempts
- Lateral movement between systems
The system generates alerts with details of the associated systems whenever it detects something unusual.
Honeypots
A honeypot takes network monitoring to the next level by creating fake systems on the network. These appear like standard desktops, servers, or other appliances and imitate common services.
The honeypot listens to all connections and captures any attempts to:
- Log in to the fake system
- View or access data
- Attack a service
- Scan the network (a technique attackers use to map your environment)
This provides valuable intelligence on the potential source, target, and methodology being used, often providing the first sign that an attacker has gained a foothold in your environment.
Genuine Services, Not Simulations
Most honeypot solutions work by simulating services - software that mimics the behaviour of a real server or application well enough to fool casual inspection. The problem is that a competent attacker knows what to look for. Simulated services respond differently to edge cases, unusual inputs, and low-level protocol queries in ways that real services do not. An experienced attacker can probe a honeypot quietly and identify it before taking any action that would trigger an alert.
Our honeypots are built on customised versions of genuine services. When an attacker interacts with one of our honeypots, it responds exactly as a real service would, because at its core, it is one. There are no subtle inconsistencies in protocol behaviour, no unusual response patterns, and no fingerprints left by simulation software.
This makes our honeypots essentially indistinguishable from the legitimate systems they are designed to resemble, even to an attacker who actively tests for deception. The attacker proceeds as if they have found a real target, and we capture everything they do.
Our Systems
Our systems are designed to meet your specific requirements and will emulate relevant operating systems and services. We can provide a range of physical and virtual honeypot systems placed at strategic locations on your network.
All solutions include:
- Active monitoring of all alerts by our team
- Help interpreting any warnings
- Support to ensure you can respond effectively to any threat
- Systems tailored to your network environment and risk profile
Get in touch to discuss an intrusion detection solution for your organisation.