HONEYTOKEN

Detect intruders in your software supply chain.

Attackers will always find a way to compromise your software supply chain, but with honeytokens, you can stay one step ahead. Deploy at scale, monitor for unauthorized use, and detect intrusions before it's too late. With Honeytoken, you'll know where, who, and how they're trying to access your confidential data.

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By Ax Sharma

By Rob Zuber

By Nate Nelson

Safeguard your software supply chain with Honeytoken

While fortifications and controls like SCM governance, IAM best practices, cloud security posture hardening, and secret scanning can significantly improve the security posture of an organization, the sad truth is that no security measure is foolproof. Even with the implementation of advanced security frameworks like SLSA or NIST SP 800-161, there's still a risk of getting breached.
Attackers are becoming more sophisticated in their tactics and constantly trying to penetrate even the most well-secured systems through your software supply chain components, including SCM systems, CI/CD pipelines, and artifact registries.
Exposed credentials or secrets found especially in source code, configuration, or logs can enable lateral movement for attackers.

Unveiling the key players in honeytoken deployment and management

One powerful platform for developers, site reliability engineers, and secops analysts.

Developers

As code owners, devs will place the honeytokens

Help disseminate the honeytokens with a simple and fun workflow.

SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEERS

Holds high privileges in the infrastructure

Deploy honeytokens on Terraform files in S3 buckets, CI environment variables, and the vault using ggshield.

SECOPS

Plays a crucial role in the Honeytoken initiative

Create, manage, monitor honeytokens, and respond to alerts generated by them. Utilize automation for dissemination.

How does GitGuardian Honeytoken work?

Step 1

Create a honeytoken through the GitGuardian dashboard or API.

Step 2

Copy the honeytoken and deploy it in your code, Jenkins environment, etc.

Step 3

The attacker gets access to the system and trips over the honeytoken.

Step 4

We send instant alerts to notify your Security and SOC team.

Trick the Attacker. Track the Attack.

Stop intruders in their tracks and safeguard your SDLC with GitGuardian Honeytoken. Attackers using automated detection can't help tripping over such honeytokens.

Developer & SRE

Get an ultimate safety net for your entire perimeter.

Embed honeytokens across the SDLC, including your laptops, source control, CI/CD pipelines, internal registries, internal wikis, messaging, and project management tools.
Be alerted only for genuine security threats. Our detection engine distinguishes honeytokens from real secrets incidents, resulting in a low false positive rate.
Each time you fix a secret with GitGuardian, use a sweet trick - create a honeytoken with GitGuardian API or CLI, ggshield and catch intruders quick!

secops

Be the first to arrive on the scene in case of an intrusion.

Receive instant alerts reducing Mean-Time-To-Detect a breach to a few minutes.
Easily integrate granular event alerts with your favorite SIEMs and ITSMs using custom webhooks.
Investigate triggered honeytokens with relevant information, such as the IP address of the intruder, timestamp, source, contextual tags, and the event that triggered it.
Respond accordingly to the triggered honeytokens with our guidelines.

Download solution brief

Early Detection. Easy Deployment. Minimal False Positives.

Detect and limit the impact of supply chain security breaches

Easily deploy honeytokens in your software supply chain to detect any breach there.

Protect multiple repositories by creating honeytokens on a large enterprise scale using our public API.
Gain automatic visibility of your codebase and honeytokens, allowing for easy identification of their accidental placement in multiple repositories.

Detect code leakage

Be alerted about the leak of your honeytoken on public GitHub with the “Publicly exposed” flag.
Identify public leaks of your private repos and prioritize the remediation of secrets in those repos.
See contextual information on how the honeytoken was triggered.
Save time and resources with an easy way to detect code leakage and prevent further data loss.

Secure time for remediation of historical secrets incidents

Deploy honeytokens across every repo with a secret leak occurrence for instant breach detection while you focus on resolving incidents at scale.
Prioritize accordingly if any valid secrets were found in codebases where a honeytoken was triggered, and invalidate those credentials as soon as possible.
Receive immediate alerts when private code goes public, enabling rapid measures to protect exposed secrets and prevent unauthorized access.

Learn more about GitGuardian Honeytoken

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Trusted by security leaders at the world’s biggest companies

I recently saw the Honeytoken beta, and I'm impressed with the concept, level of detail, and information they provide when honeytokens are triggered.

I discovered that GitGuardian offers a new type of flag that is “publicly exposed”. This flag is designed to detect when a token has been leaked on public GitHub repositories.

This will help us quickly identify when a token has been leaked and take action to mitigate the potential security risk. It's an extra layer of protection that would give us peace of mind knowing that our sensitive information is being monitored and protected.

Honeytoken resources

BLOG

Intrusion Detection Through Cyber Deception: Disrupting Attacks With An Active Defense

Misleading attackers to trigger alarms can stop them in their tracks and keep damage to a minimum.

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BLOG

Honeytokens - Protect Your Holy Grail

When protecting your SDLC, you must choose. But choose wisely, for the True Grail will bring you life. The False Grail will take it from you.

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ARTICLE

Launching GitGuardian Honeytoken: your powerful ally in detecting supply chain breaches!

What if you could detect intrusions and code leaks in your software supply chain?

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Discover SaaS Sentinel, our new GitGuardian lab project leveraging Honeytoken

Be notified about supply chain breaches on your favorite SaaS tools.

Discover more now!

Deploy honeytokens effortlessly in your SDLC for high-value and accurate alerts.

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