When Cybersecurity Tools Overpromise and Underprotect

Interesting Tech Fact:

In the late 1970s, researchers at MIT developed one of the earliest “honey pot” style experiments—called the Tiger Team exercises—to deliberately lure intruders into decoy systems as a way of studying attack patterns and preventing breaches. Unlike modern intrusion detection systems, this method was never widely publicized outside of defense circles, but it laid the groundwork for today’s deception technologies that help eliminate system breaches by turning attackers’ curiosity into a trap. This little-known milestone shows that strategies to outsmart intruders have deep roots, long before firewalls and AI-driven defense became standard practice.