Automatically generating network resource groups and assigning customized decoy policies thereto

Abstract

A cyber security system to detect attackers, including a data collector collecting data regarding a network, the data including network resources and users, a learning module analyzing data collected by the network data collector, determining therefrom groupings of the network resources into at least two groups, and assigning a customized decoy policy to each group of resources, wherein a decoy policy for a group of resources includes one or more decoy attack vectors, and one or more resources in the group in which the one or more decoy attack vectors are to be planted, and wherein an attack vector is an object of a first resource that may be used to access or discover a second resource, and a decoy deployer planting, for each group of resources, one or more decoy attack vectors in one or more resources in that group, in accordance with the decoy policy for that group.