TLDR+ Honeypots: Deploy, Deceive and Detect with Cyber Traps (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798241494948)

Make every unauthorized touch obvious. Honeypots do that - when they're deployed like a tool, not a science project.

TLDR+ Honeypots is a hands-on field manual for designing, deploying, and operating honeypots and honeytokens in real environments. It's written for SOC analysts, detection engineers, and hands-on security/sysadmin practitioners who want high-confidence signals, cleaner investigations, and deception that doesn't become a liability.

This is not a theory book. It's a practical, terminal-friendly cheatbook: tool/command → context → real usage. You'll set up commonly used low- and high-interaction traps, wire them into your SOC pipeline, and turn "someone touched it" into actionable detection and intel.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

• Choose the right honeypot type for your goal (tripwire vs telemetry vs malware capture)
• Deploy common service honeypots (SSH/Telnet, web, SMB/FTP) with safe network placement
• Stand up Cowrie, Dionaea, OpenCanary, and honeypot stacks like T-Pot in a repeatable way
• Plant honeytokens and decoy credentials that catch access misuse and lateral movement
• Collect, parse, and normalize honeypot logs for SIEM ingestion and alerting
• Write practical detections (Sigma-style logic, KQL-like patterns) for "impossible-to-ignore" events
• Triage sessions, commands, and payloads without giving the attacker a pivot point
• Convert honeypot activity into CTI: IOCs, TTPs, and ATT&CK-aligned reporting

You'll also get quick-reference checklists, sample configurations, rule starters, and reusable templates for analysis and reporting.

Whether you're adding deception to a small SOC or building a lab that feeds threat hunting and CTI - this book gets you to signal, not noise.

Author: Wojciech Ciemski
ISBN-13: 9798241494948
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 12/27/2025
Pages: 186
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.40d