Security teams use deception technology to create decoy accounts (e.g., privileged users), assets, or data. When bad guys poke around looking to advance a cyberattack or exfiltrate data and stumble into a deception decoy, the jig is up. Deception technology has a multitude of active defense use cases within MITRE Shield. It can help detect lateral movement across protocols like server message block (SMB) to minimize damages. The following trends in 2021 will help push it into the mainstream: Deception tech will become smarter, more dynamic, and thus more valuable.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3600217/why-2021-will-be-a-big-year-for-deception-technology.html