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Businesses often share data across corporate boundaries, but cybersecurity risks have never been higher.  As joint technology projects become more common, security teams currently face a difficult balance between enabling collaboration and protecting sensitive systems and information.  This balance requires careful planning to support innovation while protecting valuable assets from potential threats.[1]

Current data attacks underline the challenge, with hundreds of millions of records compromis

What is a “honeypot” in the context of cybersecurity?  The term first appeared in the 1980s and 1990s, when it was used to describe precisely that, a honey trap that lured in unsuspecting hackers, putting them on the back foot.  Clifford Stoll’s 1989 book The Cuckoo’s Egg is the first official documentation of a honeypot in the cyber world. Stoll tells the story of using what he called a “honeypot” to find a German hacker who had infiltrated U.S. military computers.  Now the term is used in cybe