HydraDefender
Active Threat Detection & Deception Platform
Active threat detection and deception platform
An independent, non-invasive, agentless platform for active threat detection and deception.
Detect suspicious activity before threats reach critical assets.
Using high-fidelity decoy services, HydraDefender helps enterprises spot scanning, probing, abnormal access and other suspicious connection behavior without disturbing existing business systems.
The platform is independent, non-invasive and agentless. A single host can deploy decoy nodes across internal and external networks, the DMZ and other critical network locations through multiple IP addresses and VLAN interfaces, and sends detection events to your existing log server, SIEM and security operations workflow via Syslog (CEF), Webhook and STIX 2.1.
- Product Type
- Threat Detection & Deception
- Deployment
- Agentless · On-premises and cloud
- Environments
- IT · IoT · OT/ICS · Healthcare · Finance
- Integration
- Syslog (CEF) · Webhook · STIX 2.1
Four stages, from deployment to coordinated defense.
Deploy decoy nodes
Simulated services matching the external or internal services the enterprise actually runs are deployed and blend into the existing network.
Draw attacker interaction
When an attacker touches a decoy node during reconnaissance or lateral movement, the behavior is recorded in full.
Detect and alert in real time
Events are rated on four severity levels based on the attack behavior and the sensitivity of the service. Attacks from the internal network trigger immediate Email or LINE notifications; everything else is collected into an hourly digest.
Export intelligence and coordinate defense
Events are exported to log servers and SIEM via Syslog (CEF), Webhook or STIX 2.1 for centralized control and coordination with other defensive systems.
47 emulated services, disguised as things your network really has.
Apply one of 14 persona templates — server, router, IoT, industrial control, healthcare, VoIP, finance and more — and customize service banners and bait credentials.
Remote access and file transfer
REMOTE · FILEWeb and applications
WEB · APPDatabases
DATABASEMail and core network services
MAIL · DIRECTORYIndustrial OT / ICS
INDUSTRIALHealthcare, IoT and more
MEDICAL · IOT · VOIP · FINANCESSH and Telnet provide an emulated shell and virtual file system; the other services emulate protocol handshakes and service responses.
Five key capabilities.
High-fidelity decoys
SSH / Telnet provide an emulated shell and virtual file system, and the other services emulate protocol handshakes and service responses; combined with persona templates, this reduces the chance of being identified as a decoy system.
Keep the attacker's tools
Files an attacker downloads or uploads through services such as SSH, Telnet, FTP, SMB and HTTP are kept, deduplicated and indexed by MD5 / SHA-256 hash.
Alerts and intelligence export
Four severity levels, with immediate notification of internal-network attacks (Email / LINE); events can be exported via Syslog (CEF, up to 16 destinations), Webhook and STIX 2.1.
Agentless, live on a single host
Deployed from an offline installation package on a Linux host (Ubuntu / Debian / RHEL) or a cloud VM, with nothing to install on endpoints; upgrades are uploaded through the web console.
Console and access control
Alerts, malware samples, reports and decoy containers are managed in one place, with three permission roles, TOTP two-factor authentication and a read-only REST API for integration with other systems.
Status, alerts and samples in a single console.
You can only investigate what you can see.
Threat Visibility & Alert InvestigationUnderstand the abnormal activity observed by the decoy services from event time, source, country, protocol and attack behavior; query results can be exported as CSV, XLSX or STIX.
What an attacker leaves behind is intelligence in itself.
Malware Samples & Threat InformationReview the suspicious files and sample information collected by the decoys in one place, supporting later analysis and threat investigation.
The list shows each sample by MD5 and SHA-256 hash, file name and collection time. Samples can be searched by hash, viewed, and downloaded as an encrypted archive for further analysis.
What is happening in the hive.
The view below is an illustration, not real events; source addresses use only ranges reserved for documentation.
| Time | Source | Protocol | Decoy node | Status |
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Environments that take internal network security seriously.
Suited to enterprise environments that place a high value on internal network security, IoT / OT / ICS, or protection of critical services — manufacturing, technology and other settings sensitive to downtime.
In these settings, knowing early that you have been breached is often worth more than forensics after the fact. What a decoy mechanism provides is exactly that compressed reaction time.
Part of the security stack you already run.
The platform integrates with SIEM for centralized control and supplies precise attack intelligence, reducing the time SOC teams spend investigating.
For organizations that already run a SOC, HydraDefender adds a high-confidence detection signal and works alongside existing monitoring and response processes.
Want to know how HydraDefender would be deployed in your environment?
We can walk through a suitable deployment approach and the expected benefits for your actual network architecture.