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How to prevent supply chain attacks with Honeytokens | UpGuard

Honeytokens act like tripwires, alerting organizations of malicious threats lurking at the footsteps of their sensitive data. If strategically distributed thought an ecosystem, honeytokens could event prevent supply chain attacks.

There are different forms of Honeytokens to mirror the many different forms of sensitive resources that attract cybercriminals.

Small ecosystems could speckle their access points with Canarytokens, but multi-dimensional infrastructures requiring thousands of honeytokens could not.

AWS keys can be configured as honeytokens that are placed along attack surfaces that could be traversed by cybercriminals.