FBI Using Deception to Help Protect Companies From Cybercrime

According to an Ars Technica story, the FBI is using one of the oldest tricks in the book to help companies protect data: deception. Under a program called IDLE (Illicit Data Loss Exploitation), the FBI is working to proactively protect companies, rather than waiting for an incident to occur. According to Ars, IDLE is “a form of defensive deception—or as officials would prefer to refer to it, obfuscation—that the FBI hopes will derail all types of attackers, particularly advanced threats from outside and inside the network.” The goal is to lure hackers into going for fake data, servers or infrastructure, leading them down dead-ends.

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