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Infosec In Brief The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has found that cyber-deception tactics such as honeypots and decoy accounts designed to fool attackers can be useful if implemented very carefully.

The NCSC tested cyber deception technology with several volunteer companies, because those that wander into the carefully laid traps leave behind clues that can turn into threat intelligence, at least according to vendors of such tools.

The NCSC found that there's truth to those claims during the run of its Active Cyber Defense 2.0 program, according to a blog post last week.

"We found that cyber deception can be used for visibility in many systems, including legacy or niche systems," the NCSC said. Great news, but there's the caveat: "Without a clear strategy organizations risk deploying tools that generate noise rather than insight.”

In other words, you need a proper plan to make these ...